CPU Utilisation jumpy.

[Heligrin]

Hi, today i have noticed that my CPU utiliation is jumping up and down at weird spots, locking my comp for about 2-3 seconds. It just started happening today. When this happens, the System procss jumps to about 60% cpu. This is wieird because i have never seen this before. I am wondering if it is due to my OC, but its been stable for a very long time. I have run 3 different sets of spyware and Norton 2005 and both turned up negative. Everytime it freezes, it is when SYstem has about 50% cpu.


Suggestions?

 

[UltimaParadox]

Have you tried programs such as Hijack This!, its great for determining unwanted processes.

Also the easiest thing to do is a control+alt+del and see what the current running processes are and then sort them by memory usages.

 

[Heligrin]

I have checked the process tab and determined that all my processes are legit. The ones i did not know about or looked fishy were all Norton or MS security. My page file use is always about ~400, which isnt bad considering how much stuff i had running, plus i have 2 gigs. But the ram isnt the problem, its the CPU. I have determined that it loved to do this when i had MS Word up, ill need to investigate more.

 

[Burner27]

Uninstall Norton. Everything will be normal again. Norton likes to go crazy sometimes--worthless software.

 

[coffee33]

Uninstall Norton. Everything will be normal again. Norton likes to go crazy sometimes--worthless software.

Amen!
Norton is one of the biggest POS software know to man...I mean I have had spyware treat me better then it did hehe

 

[Heligrin]

lol