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help...95% processor usage a problem

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by toptiger May 15, 2001 last reply Aug 13, 2001

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thinkpad 600e, 10g hd, 128 meg ram, pii 333
with NOTHING running processor shows 95% kernal usage. have reimaged hd and still with only win98se no change.

have put hd in another 600e and there is no problem. ibm replaced mother board, processor,cdrom, hd and the problem still exists.

ibm says "there is not a problem" based on their diagnostics.

i guess it was designed that way...HELP!!

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by gary mintz May 15, 2001

You did not mention anything about the memory chip(s) being tested or swapped but I would suspect that may be your problem. If you have 2 64meg chips, try removing one and see what your resources show. If system still indicates that your resources are low try the other one. If you only have 1 128meg stick then try pulling the memory out of the othe 600e.

Good Luck

by toptiger Aug 13, 2001

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by parbo May 15, 2001

Very true answer from IBM. Windows Utility is only provide as a guide and is not accurate at all. I ran into the same problem where it shows the usage being very high most of the time (depending on the resources CPU/mem etc). Anyway Microsoft admitsthat this is no problem its just the inaccuraccy of the program making it seem like a problem. check technet article Q227131.
Hope this helps.

by parbo May 15, 2001

Just as a test when your kernel usage is at 95% open an application and it will drop to normal usage. Once you close the application it goes up again. The only reason i can think it does this is holding the cache information. And that's normal behavior in Windows but the exact usage is doubtful.