Slow response time

[royalk4]

I have the specs listed in my sig and I'm concerned about the response times I've been getting while doing very basic applications in my computer. I avhe my windows task manager up and while I type this my CPU is runninga t 80%-99% and this is the only application I am running at the time. Also while I type the lag of the type on to the page is far behind how fast I am actually typing. Before I switched MOBO this never happend. I however am convinced that this is actually a CPU problem instead of a MOBO problem.

I blew up my old MObo, forgot the mobo supports on the new case. when I tried to remove my zalman 9500 heatsink from the CPU next thing I know CPU and zalman in hand CPU lock on MObo still down. Some pins are bent. I move the pins back to where they should be and the chip fits inside so I think I'm ok. Also I've ran prime95 for the last 14 hours and it gave me 0 warning or errors and I passed all of the test. I've yet to run MEMtest because I don't have a floppy disk installed.

Help troubleshooting this problem?

 

[Bobthelost]

Have you reinstalled XP? If you swtich motherboards then it's pretty much essential.

 

[royalk4]

Yea I did a new install of XP. I also got a new SATA HDD. It's weird while I sit here and watch the screen my CPU usage is jumping ffrom 50-84% and various levels in between. This is the only program I have open besides Task manager and my ANtivirus.

 

[royalk4]

I looked at the processes running on my CPU and ashServ.exe is running at 50-99% of my CPU all the time. I looked up this file and found that it is part of my anti-virus, avast!, but why is it using so much of the CPU constantly and would that affect the overall performance of my computer that much?

 

[pkrush]

Uninstall AVAST and try AVG or AntiVir, I've used both of those and they work great.

 

[royalk4]

I also have AVG but it misses alot more viruses than Avast does. I scanned my system with AVG and it found nothing but AVast found 6 files. I just disabled the running scan. which I don't like to do.... but I read on google that is should be ok to pause the system shield

 

[Jiggz]

Well, there you go. The culprit is your AV program. I cannot believe your AV cpu usage is so high. Yes, with that kind of cpu usage you will have lags and big slow downs in system performance. You might want to research more about your AV to see if there is any option to work in the back without taking all priorities of the CPU.