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No prescott here. All temps in Celsius: CPU is 50 System Zone 1 is 36 System Zone 2 is 39 I would be willing to buy the idea that it's a P4 issue and normal, but it only started acting up in the last week and a half or so. It's much more sluggish than normal, so it makes me think I...

The indexing service is already disabled. Interesting...why then does my old laptop run at about 3% CPU when idle? Thanks!

The problem is that the CPU is _always_ at 51% when it is idle. I'm doing absolutely nothing and the machine is at 51%. Before this problem arose, a truly idle box would sit at 1 to 2%. Could it be a failing PS?

Here is what I mean: the system idle process: thanks!

Here is my setup: P4 2.8 ghz w/hyperthreading 512 mb stepped ram 160 gb maxtor hdd (ide) Intel 865perl mb nvidia geforce4 ti agp card sb live value linksys lnetx100 v4 nic Lite on 4X dvd burner For the past 2 weeks, my CPU utilization has been at a constant 51%. After browsing the...