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CollegeTrader
 

Registered: Feb 2008
Posts: 293

 

07-12-12 07:07 PM

My computer is a Lenovo K430 Intel Core i5-2320 12GB 2 TB HDD Win7 64 bit Home Premium. Running Norton Anti Virus software. no special screen saver or back ground just pictures. The platform is using most of the cpu, however since i turned it to turbo mode its data quotes only got stuck once. maybe that was the issue not entirely sure yet.

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promagma
 

Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 781

 

07-12-12 07:28 PM

That's not right... either it is a platform bug/configuration issue, or it is a weak platform and you are overloading it somehow. The chances of "turbo" helping are slim to none.

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Landis82
 

Registered: Jul 2006
Posts: 8580

 

07-12-12 10:36 PM


Quote from promagma:

Open task manager and see what process is maxing out the CPU



What he said.

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Bolimomo
 

Registered: Sep 2008
Posts: 2260

 

07-13-12 12:43 AM

Without concrete evidence, it is anybody's speculations. Have your Task Manager Ready. When the CPU usage spikes up every 30 minutes as you said, you should be able to ID what process (and thus an image name) that is taking up most of the CPU cycles at that moment. You start from there.

For all we know... it could be an antivirus scan. Maybe something comes with your box by the vendor.

Or Google waking up every 30 minutes and sends reports of all the websites you have visited and all your keystrokes.

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WinstonTJ
 

Registered: Jan 2009
Posts: 1947

 

07-13-12 02:50 AM

IBM/Lenovo is one of the few vendors that I take issue with. I love the hardware (I own a lenovo netbook and swear by it) but they bloat their systems with crazy amounts of add-in software.

Best thing you could do would be to start fresh. Format the hard drive(s) and re-install the operating system with a clean install. DO NOT run the Lenovo tools DVD with all the extra "Lenovo software".

Also are you connecting wireless or hard-wired?

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