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July 15, 2005 at 10:23 AM
alfredthe4th

XP Hangs when CPU Idles

by alfredthe4th . Updated 19 years, 7 months ago

My home computer hangs after about one or two minutes of doing light tasks or no tasks. meaning that if “System Idle Process” is has the highest CPU percentage it with lock shortly. But it will not crash if its doing something. So I have been using “MemTest” to scan 1MB of RAM to keep it from locking. I have run SFC, several antivirus and spyware scans, and harddisk scans and found nothing wrong. Also no new hardware or software has been installed. I tried a system rollback and nothing changed. I have XP SP2 and autoupdates set to on. The System is a P4 2.4GHz 768MB RAM and ATI Radeon 9600 All-in-Wonder. This is one of the stranger thing that I have seen. Thanks.

P.S. Is running a CPU at 100% constantly harmful to it.

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