100% CPu utilization with no apps running - why ?

[KIDO1]

Hello. I have abit kt7-raid with Tbird - 800/980, 256 ram. I have Win Me. There is something very strange - when I boot my computer my cpu utilization is like 40 percent - running - only ICQ. But the thing is after let say ... 4-5 hours the cpu utilzation jumps to 100% and stays there until i restart the computer. I delete all tasks from the task manager - no help. If I ran SETI@home when the cpu is at 100% is runs very slow - which means that something is using the cpu for real.
Any suggestions ?

Do I have to make any upgrades to my Bios - drivers ?

Thanks !

 

[Zephyr]

I have reason to believe the Windows 9x system monitor is broken. On all the athlon/Duron based system I've worked with it would show strange behavious much like what you describe. I'm assuming it simply is unable to measure properly on the K7 architechture being so different from the supported architechtures. It does not represent actual cpu usage.

This is only what I've experienced, if it feels like something is using your cputime it may be a different problem you have

 

[KIDO1]

This is not true unfortunatelly. When I start my computer and for the first 1-2 hours my temps are like 30 degree for cpu.
When my cpu usage goes to 100% my temps stay constant at 52 degrees. this means there is 100% cpu utilization! and also why seti@home works so slow if before i start it the system monitor shows 100% util. ??????????/

Thanks

 

[Zephyr]

I have a little piece of shareware I found on download.com called TaskInfo 2.2b which can tell you what apps are using your cpu usage...

you can DL from me here: taskinfo 2.2b

hope it helps

 

[Multi]

Kido, the problem you're describe happens to my roommate's computer all the time with similiar system spec(and winME). For him either(I forget) MPREXE.EXE or MSGSRV32.EXE randomly sucks up his system resources. I don't know why . Well bump for you and hopefully you'll find out your problem

 

[KIDO1]

Zephyr, THANKS A LOT!!!!!!!!!

The program that sucks all my resources is : stmgr.exe

Someone any idea what beast is this and how can i remove it ?

Thanks!!!