CPU activity at 20% after cloning a new hard drive

[jberenyi]

Last night I used Acronis to clone off a brand new 1Tb drive. All went well and I fired it up this morning. The only thing I noticed is that my CPU activity is at about 20%. Is this normal? I looked at the resources monitor for CPU and it says its doing deferred procedure calls for the 20%. Last time this happened it went away after several hours.

 

[ignatzatsonic]

My guess would be it is just Windows doing some housekeeping on the new drive and it is temporary.

If it is still doing the same thing a week from now, then I'd look at it more closely.

 

[edwar]

Yeah Windows is seeing a New HDD and is Indexing it.

 

[jberenyi]

Thanks guys. That's what I thought but wasn't sure.

 

[edwar]

Well if it doesn't stop by tomorrow, or sooner, then it may be something else.

 

[jberenyi]

Oh no!

Well its something else. I just found out that my dual core i5 only has one core running at 100% and the other about 1%. What could this mean? I have updated the BIOS and checked the CPU settings. All looks good. I have no idea how to approach this issue.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Tried the drivers in device manager jb? and take a look in msconfig in the boot section mate change it to to two cores if it is one - long shot but worth a try.

Take a look with Speccy too it might show up something amiss

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[jberenyi]

Problem Solved

Problem solved!! I removed the cpu and cleaned all contacts with alcohol. replaced and used Arctic Silver paste. All is well now. I also cleaned my RAM contacts. They all showed being dirty.