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Re: What can cause a huge hit on my CPU? by Entropy Stew 01/19/2005, 8:14pm PST First thing to check - do you have a virus or spyware? Norton, Adaware, Spybot, blah lah etc. Second thing - make sure windows didn't lose its mind and disable DMA on your disk drives. 1. Jump into the device manager 2. Open the properties page for IDE ATAPI Drives->Primary IDE Channel. Also check secondary 3. Head to the Advanced Settings tab 4. Transfer mode should be "DMA is Available" and current transfer mode should be "Ultra DMA Mode" or "Not Applicable" if there's nothing attached to that IDE port. If there is any mention of PIO mode, your cpu is being raped every time you access the disk. Windows 2000 is especially bad about dropping disks down to PIO mode silently. -/ES/-

What can cause a huge hit on my CPU? by Fullofkittens 01/19/2005, 7:23pm PST     Re: What can cause a huge hit on my CPU? by Entropy Stew 01/19/2005, 8:14pm PST         Re: What can cause a huge hit on my CPU? by Fullofkittens 01/20/2005, 8:19pm PST             Re: What can cause a huge hit on my CPU? by Maxime Faget 01/20/2005, 9:32pm PST                 Re: What can cause a huge hit on my CPU? by Fullofkittens 01/20/2005, 10:31pm PST                     Re: What can cause a huge hit on my CPU? by Entropy Stew 01/21/2005, 8:36pm PST                         Re: What can cause a huge hit on my CPU? by Fullofkittens 01/22/2005, 7:49am PST                             Also: by Fullofkittens 01/22/2005, 8:05am PST     Problem Status: Solved by Fullofkittens 01/22/2005, 12:29pm PST         This started happening again. WTF? by Fullofkittens 02/17/2005, 11:45pm PST             Nevermind, it was a hardware conflict. NT by Fullofkittens 02/18/2005, 8:50pm PST                 They all are, son... they all are. NT by ROLL CREDITS 02/18/2005, 10:07pm PST