90% sys resources

[CowZ]

so originally I thought my 400gig sata drive have a virus or trojan that may be taking up the system resources. My sys resources is constantly holding at 90% even after turning off most programs and after a reboot. So I did a clean install onto an older smaller hd and see what happens. After the clean install my problem still persist holding at the same %. Do you guys think its a Ram issue? I am using oldschool DDR1. If its a memory failure wouldn't it not boot up at all? I don't think its a CPU issue right? Do i need to just get a new rig now since it seems like a lost cause to me.

 

[cubby1223]

I had a similar computer once to fix that had a bad cdrom drive that would push the cpu usage up to 99%, and bring the computer to a slow crawl. All I'm saying is, something is wrong with the hardware, or the drivers, and it could be almost anything - but I can pretty much guarantee it's not the cpu. The cpu is never the problem.

 

[montag451]

Just checking.
What OS?
Are your drives in DMA mode, or PIO?
If in PIO, then turn them to DMA in control panel/hardware/hdd

 

[TheKub]

What exactly are you referring to when you say system resources? CPU usage\PageFile\Mem?

Also, what OS?

 

[CowZ]

Thanks guys for the help. I started disabling different hardware and by some stroke of luck I found out that it was my wireless card that is having issues. I guess I'll go ahead and buy a new one. It was the one that was taking up massive system resources. I disabled the drivers and my system stabilized. Then i went ahead and took the card out and rebooted and now its working perfectly. Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[TheKub]

By chance did it happen to be a DLink card?