High CPU Usage!

[brockwed]

Hey, I just installed a new motherboard and upgraded to 2GB of RAM from 512MB. Any Way, I had to do a clean install of Windows XP and my computer seems to be really sluggish, and CPU Usage is very high or will go up to 100% and then dip to 5% rapidly. Any tips on how to get rid of this problem, i have nothing installed on the computer, thats why it seems really weird. Thanks for your help!

 

[Rubber314Chicken]

if you've gone online, you may have gotten a virus.

 

[brockwed]

No i cannot get the computer online right now its really weird. It says that I have a excellent connection but when i click to go online it says im not connected... any ideas on that one?

 

[Cabbs]

What mobo and video card do you have? If you have a 6800GS, there have been problems with CPU usage and this card with various systems, me included, on my A8N32 SLI Deluxe.

 

[Mattyl110792]

If you've only just done a clean install and havn't got any files on it, I would try formatting and trying again, just to make sure there wasn't a problem with the installation...then, try taking out the new RAM and see what happens..

Matt

 

[brockwed]

My graphics card is an Nvidia 6800 Ultra, and my MOBO is an MSI P800 < I think... The computer is so sluggish It feels like I have 128mb of RAM not 2gigs!

 

[brockwed]

I found some hardware specs under the system summary and this shows up, is it normal? I have 2 gigs of RAM and it says:
Total Physical Memory 2,048
Available Physical Memory 1.58GB
Total Virtual Memory 5.85GB
Available Virtual Memory 5.22GB
Page File Space 3.85GB

Is all that normal, I just cannot figure out why my computer is so sluggish!

 

[esa193]

it could be 2 reasons
bad install reinstall windows and try again
and 6800 some times can couse usage problems

 

[Jk]

Try going to task manager and looking at the proceses. If any of the svchost.exe is using alot of memory then try reformatting. This has happened to me and i just reformatted and reinstalled xp.

 

[brockwed]

Its not the graphics card beacuse it worked fine. I'm justing going to try to reinstall windows. Thanks for your help. I'll be back if the problems continue