AMD Phenom X4 9550 issues with W7

[jdhiatt]

Hello,

I seem to be having major issues with my "upgrade" to W7 64bit from Vista 64bit. I have the full licensed copy of W7 and chose to do the "upgrade" due to having important documents I did not want to lose. I believe that was my first mistake. I "upgraded" Sunday the 8th of Nov.

My issues are with my processor. Before the "upgrade" I never had any issues with my processor running really hard but since Sunday it has yet to stop unless I reboot. After a while it starts back up again. The processor is a quad core Phenom as the title states and according to TM all four cores are pegged and running around 70-80% without any processes running.

I sorted the CPU usage through TM to view the most usage and there were small amounts %5 or less. The "System Idle" was ranging from %80-98 and the CPU Usage was ranging from %70-90 at the same time. To me, that does not make sense. Would anyone enlighten me as to what could be going on?

 

[Fluffy]

Could be an anti-virus program or a defrag that has been scheduled, have a look in all the settings for these types of apps.

 

[Jonathan_King]

Could you please post a screenshot of your task manager?

 

[jdhiatt]

I will post a screen shot when I get home as I cannot get access to Photobucket or something of the sort at work. <Johnathan King

I know the only Anti-virus program I have on the new machine is MSE. I do not have automatic scans on and I will check the degragmenting and such. If I'm not mistaken I view that through the "Scheduled Tasks" in the Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools?

 

[jdhiatt]

Do you guys think it could be Video Card driver issues?? Here is a link to another W7 forum and the guy had the same issues I still have..

System interrupts problem - Windows 7 Forums

 

[jdhiatt]

Well I took the easy way out and just did a fresh install and all the problems with the processor are gone. I'm assuming it was a driver issue somewhere on my system and after 3 hours of search, reading and getting irritated I just said screw it I'll reload W7. So far so good. Thanks for the help guys.

 

[jdhiatt]

Well...I retract my previous post as I am still having problems. The computer was working fine until 6pm lastnight and the processor just started pegging agian. So problem is no longer fixed and if anyone else has any insight I'd be glad to take any advice possible.

 

[Bangboogey]

I'm having the exact same problem as jdhiatt.

 

[Bangboogey]

I have the exact same problem as Jdhiatt. Had to go back to Vista because of it. I've tried a lot of solutions but none successful.

 

[jdhiatt]

Yep...that is exactly what I did. The night of my previous post I reverted back to Vista-64 and I have never had a problem. I'm thinking HP didn't have a bios update/chipset driver for 7 out at the time but I'm not trying again until I know otherwise.

 

[beauparc]

Very strange. I'm using the same processor on an Asus M4A78 Pro board, upgraded from Vista 64 to 7 64 rather than a clean install and have no problems at all.

Processor is just idling away in the background until called into action.

 

[pebbly]

win 7 does cause the cpu to run a little hotter, i use an artic freezer pro64 to keep my temps down just check to see if your cpu isnt running too hot

 

[ath024]

I am having the same problem with the same computer. I have been trying for the last week or so to figure this out with NO luck. You would think with HP or whoever is at fault should have this figured out by now. The OS has been testing for over a year...

 

[Nburnes]

What about this thread from the HP forum? Installing Windows 7 on HP Pavilion a6720y - HP Support Forum

 

[ath024]

Tried that to without any luck

 

[Bangboogey]

Same here. Its funny, I get a windows 7 upgrade but can't use it. A shame.

 

[baron75mk2]

i had all the same issues with abnormal processor usage - don`t dump your windows 7 as this problem is easily solved & its not a problem with your processor its something you would not expect go to this link & your problem will be solved -http://www.sevenforums.com/music-pictures-video/27512-windows-media-player-12-cpu-hog-issue.html

 

[Bangboogey]

Sorry baron75mk2. That isn't the problem. I don't think this nvidia, hp error will be solved soon. I recently just installed a new graphics card and power supply. But, i'm not sure I want to try to install win7 again and install all of my software (hours of work) and end up with the same problem. If I see a fix for it I'll let you all know.

 

[Bangboogey]

And yes Pebbly, I did notice that when win7 was installed the cpu core's was running very high. It was almost scary to see them running like that with no programs opened.

 

[baron75mk2]

Sorry baron75mk2. That isn't the problem. I don't think this nvidia, hp error will be solved soon. I recently just installed a new graphics card and power supply. But, i'm not sure I want to try to install win7 again and install all of my software (hours of work) and end up with the same problem. If I see a fix for it I'll let you all know.

how do you know that this isnt the problem if you haven't tried re-installing windows 7 & doing the downgrade of media player ? - its a well known problem with media player 12 (abnormally high CPU usage) i had sometimes up to 70% usage - look at resource monitor when you see the high usage & you will see its media player using it - the reason you don't have it with vista /xp is because they don't have media player 12 - at leased try the solution before you say it doesn't work i have a friend with an hp PC had all the same issues - wasn't anything to do with processors or graphics cards did the downgrade & problem solved - he hasn't even got an amd processor & had all the same problems before getting rid of wmp12 & replacing with wmp11 (don't take my word for it , just Google wmp12 high CPU usage) - Ive had both nvidia & ati graphics cards in my current rig (same for my m8 with the hp) (which was mine before he had it) & i was nothing to do with graphics chips & you have the exact same processor as i have (amd phenom x4 9750) so if its the processor i would still have the issue but i don't as i have got rid of wmp12 which is the cause of the high CPU usage