excessdl Posted March 29, 2002 Share Posted March 29, 2002 okay, this makes no sense at all.. in XP, i ctrl+alt+del to get to the task manager.. then i go to the performance tab only to find that my processor usage is at 100% at ALL times.. it's not spiking up there, just staying there... funny thing is, nothing seems to be affected that i can really tell.. i played a divx from the cd drive and it started to get choppy --that's why i checked the taskmanager... but windows/ie/everything else seems to be running fine... only 32 processes currently running on an athlon xp 1600, 256mb ram.. i don't like seeing my processor usage up so high.. what could it possibly be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davjak Posted March 29, 2002 Share Posted March 29, 2002 do u use any cpu cooling software like VCool? those things use an Idle loop which uses all available cpu to keep the cpu cool, but when it needs it it allows the pc to use it again.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotrod Posted March 29, 2002 Share Posted March 29, 2002 it's easy to tell what is running in the background hogging up your cpu. go to the task manager, click on the 'processes' tab, then click on the 'cpu' field and it will show sort out which apps are causing this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excessdl Posted March 29, 2002 Author Share Posted March 29, 2002 hey, thanks for the tip.. i went over to processes and found coolsrv.exe and killed it just to check.. sure enough it dropped my cpu usage back down to 1% .. thanks again! ~w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Anarkii Subscriber² Posted March 29, 2002 Subscriber² Share Posted March 29, 2002 I dont know what it could be but I have a Celeron 666mhz with 768 megs ram. It always idles at 30% cpu usage with nothing but an internet connection and 41 processes. Moving the mouse spikes the cpu usage upto 80% (this high from just moving a mouse?!) and yeah.. weird as hell... So try closing a few things in ya system tray and see if that makes a diffence, then load things up one by and see if u can find the problem. btw, seti@home (if u have that running) will make your cpu use alot of resources if you have it set to continusly run. cheers :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faction Posted March 29, 2002 Share Posted March 29, 2002 Coolsrv.exe = ?[moved to help] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotrod Posted March 29, 2002 Share Posted March 29, 2002 no prob.. glad you figured it out also go here: https://www.neowin.net/cgi-bin/files/downlo...l?file=startcpl and download. nice little app that will show you what is starting up after each reboot and allows you disable stuff you don't want automatically starting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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