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Sudden CPU Spikes and OS Freeze in Windows 7!
I urgently need some help with this issue I'm having... The worst thing is, this is a new PC and I've just freshly installed Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit on it.
I've already updated ALL my device drivers to the latest available, as well as applied all available Windows updates, yet it still happens.
These weird CPU Spikes can occur seemingly randomly, and thereafter causes my OS to inevitably freeze or become EXTREMELY unresponsive at best. I am unable to Restart the computer (it either hangs at logging off or doesn't seem to be able to shutdown (left it trying to shutdown for 1 hour).
The onset has happened to me so far in these scenarios:
1) Just surfing the internet
2) Playing a video file
3) Leaving the computer idle (It was frozen when I got back to my PC)
4) Changing control panel settings
I was lucky enough to capture and save the screenshots showing it in Task Manager. The culprit process seems to be the 'SYSTEM' process (which shows only 25% CPU usage, however as you can see my ACTUAL CPU usage spikes all the way to 100%!
Quoted below is my system information:
Thanks so much for any help!!Code:System Information report written at: 08/28/11 19:55:16 System Name: TIMO-PC [System Summary] Item Value OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601 Other OS Description Not Available OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name TIMO-PC System Manufacturer To Be Filled By O.E.M. System Model To Be Filled By O.E.M. System Type x64-based PC Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. P1.00, 7/29/2011 SMBIOS Version 2.7 Windows Directory C:\Windows System Directory C:\Windows\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514" User Name Timo-PC\Timo Time Zone Malay Peninsula Standard Time Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB Total Physical Memory 7.98 GB Available Physical Memory 5.97 GB Total Virtual Memory 8.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 5.43 GB Page File Space 16.0 MB Page File C:\pagefile.sys [Hardware Resources] [Conflicts/Sharing] Resource Device I/O Port 0x00000000-0x0000000F Direct memory access controller I/O Port 0x00000000-0x0000000F PCI bus I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) Processor Family PCI Express Root Port - 0101 I/O Port 0x0000E000-0x0000E07F NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti I/O Port 0x0000E000-0x0000E07F Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) Processor Family PCI Express Root Port - 0101 Memory Address 0xFA100000-0xFA107FFF ASMedia XHCI Controller Memory Address 0xFA100000-0xFA107FFF Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6 - 1C1A IRQ 16 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti IRQ 16 Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6 - 1C1A IRQ 16 Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) Processor Family PCI Express Root Port - 0101 IRQ 16 Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller - 1C2D IRQ 17 Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 - 1C10 IRQ 17 Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 - 1C18 IRQ 17 High Definition Audio Controller Memory Address 0xD0000000-0xD7FFFFFF NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti Memory Address 0xD0000000-0xD7FFFFFF Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) Processor Family PCI Express Root Port - 0101 IRQ 19 Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 - 1C16 IRQ 19 PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge IRQ 19 Intel(R) Desktop/Workstation/Server Express Chipset SATA AHCI Controller Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI bus Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) Processor Family PCI Express Root Port - 0101 I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB PCI bus I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) Processor Family PCI Express Root Port - 0101 Memory Address 0xF8000000-0xF9FFFFFF NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti Memory Address 0xF8000000-0xF9FFFFFF Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) Processor Family PCI Express Root Port - 0101 Memory Address 0xDC100000-0xDC103FFF Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller Memory Address 0xDC100000-0xDC103FFF Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 - 1C18 I/O Port 0x0000D000-0x0000D0FF Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller I/O Port 0x0000D000-0x0000D0FF Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 - 1C18 [DMA] Resource Device Status Channel 4 Direct memory access controller OK Channel 2 Standard floppy disk controller OK
Last edited by Brink; 28 Aug 2011 at 11:46. Reason: code box