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Shane:
Sounds like the video card, and if the video is part of the motherboard it might be the motherboard then.

Faulty hardware would cause the drivers to not work properly and that could cause the cpu to max out.

Shane

Washbush:
I am working on a plan. 

First, I am going to the store and buy a 12 Pack of Guinness.

Then, the computer is going on my workbench for some open heart surgery.  I think I mentioned that I took out four sticks of memory that totaled 750Meg (+/-) and replaced them with four new sticks totaling 2Gig.  Then, I took out the video card, that only had a very small amount of memory and put in a new one that has onboard memory of almost a Gig.  Then to took out three old cards that were in it since the beginning ... a 3 port firewire card, an old modem from dial-up days, and that screwey analog TV tuner that never worked anyway. 

The rest of the time I have been updating every driver in it, and running anybody's software that is guaranted to solve all my problems.  Only, I still have the problems.  (I am not even thinking about your stuff because I read the disclaimer!)  :<)

I am going to take the two cards that are left and try them each in every available slot.  Same for the memory ... I will rotate them through all four slots.  I also have the old video card.  I'll give that a go. 

If none of that helps, I think I will give up.  Two months of tinkering on something almost every day is enough, even for me ... the poster boy for Never-Give-Up. 

By the way, this morning in booted up the computer, and before doing anything else, I hit the Task Manager.  Nothing was running but start up stuff.  The CPU was at 100%.

I'll send you one final report maybe tomorrow night or Wednesday.  I feel like I am drifting, my space ship warp drive is destroyed, my shields are all down and this will be my last transmission home.  And, the Romulans are coming.

John

Shane:
If you are able try to use a different power supply as well :wink:

Shane

Washbush:
Haven't a clue how to go about doing that.  But, I can check this one.  Are the output numbers on it somewhere?  And, how do I know how much I need to power up the unit?

Shane:
No way really to measure it. Power supplies are easy to swap out and you always want to make sure you have one that can give the power that all the hardware needs. Like if you had a 700 watt power supply it wouldnt be using 700 watts, it just means it can pump out up to 700 watts if the system needs it.

So if you have a under powered or weak power supply then hardware wont get all the juice it needs, and then odd things start to happen.

Shane

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