Spiky CPU usage even in safe mode

[damonposey]

So I'm supposedly virus-free and spyware-free after running latest Antivir(caught some viruses), SUPERantispyware, Ad-aware, Spybot. Nothing shows up anymore. Plus I did a windows repair recently. Ran a chkdsk /r, and a bios reset just for kicks.

Now I boot into safemode. Still my CPU usage is like the rockymountains going from 20 to 100 all the time. It's hard to tell what processes are doing it. Sometimes its msiexec.exe, sometimes, svchost.exe, sometimes its whatever program I'm trying to run, sometimes it appears to be nothing. This is in safe mode and I'm totally baffled to what might be causing it. Any ideas?

EDIT: forgot to mention. It's winXP sp2. Plus my WIN PE cd works fine. I can do diagnostics on everything, and everything runs fine from win pe.

 

[Viperlover]

If you think it is a virus, download avast and do a pre boot up scan.

 

[damonposey]

I don't think its a virus. I ran antivirus from my win pe cd. but I guess I'll try the pre-boot avast scan.

whats weird is if I leave it, it stays around 7%. If I simply start moving the task manager window around, it shoots to 100%, or 80% if I move it really slowly, lol. Heck, if I even move the mouse around it shoots to 20-30% This is ridiculous, wonder what the problem could be.