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CPU Usage Problem
Foofoojack:
I recently chatted with Dell Live Chat to fix a problem I had with my laptop randomly shutting off at random times.
They had me run a couple of Dell Diagnostics, and download a BIOS update.
Ever since this update, my laptop has been EXTREMELY slow.
Youtube videos are super choppy, it takes a very long time to load any given web page, and I can no longer enjoy Garrys mod in a playable way because of the 3-5 fps I am now getting.
When playing music and browsing the web, my CPU Usage is usually at 100%, which is completely insane.
I opened up task manager to see what was taking up so much cpu usage, and the top 3 are chrome, steam, and dmw.exe (not in any specific order).
I've tried to live chat will Dell again, but have gotten nowhere because they're apparently always "busy".
Any help with this would be GREATLY appreciated.
Rocket50:
Close everything, and leave your computer idle, does the CPU usage graph still spike randomly?
Foofoojack:
--- Quote from: Rocket50 on September 13, 2012, 07:33:41 PM ---Close everything, and leave your computer idle, does the CPU usage graph still spike randomly?
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I've done this, closing everything and not touching anything. It usually sits at around 15-35% usage when idle.
blαh2355:
--- Quote from: Foofoojack on September 13, 2012, 07:36:04 PM ---I've done this, closing everything and not touching anything. It usually sits at around 15-35% usage when idle.
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Check for viruses? Look closely at what's hogging CPU in task manager?
Maybe check BIOS/CPU settings?
๖Ϝцzsioᴎ:
System restore before the update, when you log back in there will be a balloon saying "WINDOWS WANT TO INSTALL UPDATES THAT WILL BREAK YOUR COMPUTER HURR HURR" Click the update thing in the taskbar and hide all of the updates Windows wants to install (This includes Important and Optional updates).
This should fix your problem and get rid of that set of updates.
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