System and System Idle Processes are eating my CPU

[SoundTheSurrender]

Both of these processes are causing my CPU usuage to be over 70% constantly. It's been happening since last night.

I'm using a 1.83GHz Core2Duo Macbook.

Windows XP Pro SP3 is the OS I am using.

Any ideas?

 

[pontifex]

high system idle process cpu usage is good (unless something is supposed to be runing). that means nothing is using your cpu.
not sure about system.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

You sure it's doing nothing? Because my Fans have been full blast for hours. I doubt that's good.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: SoundTheSurrender
You sure it's doing nothing? Because my Fans have been full blast for hours. I doubt that's good.

doesn't take much for laptops to get hot in my experience.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

I know but,

This doesn't happen usually. My fans are never on full blast for hours straight while browsing the internet. This isn't normal.

 

[Onund]

do you have the charger plugged in when usually you don't?

My Eee ups the performance when connected to main power which causes more fan usage when compared to battery only operation.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Well strange, I unhook my power and it still claims to be connected to AC..

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Ugh, what the hell, I yanked out the battery and instantly the process went down. What the hell.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Originally posted by: Onund
do you have the charger plugged in when usually you don't?

My Eee ups the performance when connected to main power which causes more fan usage when compared to battery only operation.

My laptop is always plugged in. I don't know how much more I can say it. What it is doing right now is NOT NORMAL.

My laptop's fans are never full blast just browsing the internet. I'm just going to reformat and go back to OS X. Macbooks and Windows never worked out for me. Some petty thing always happens.

 

[Tarrant64]

Originally posted by: SoundTheSurrender
Both of these processes are causing my CPU usuage to be over 70% constantly. It's been happening since last night.

I'm using a 1.83GHz Core2Duo Macbook.

Windows XP Pro SP3 is the OS I am using.

Any ideas?

There's your problem.

Anyways, it could be some incompatibilities with the motherboard or something causing the fans to run. Drivers, BIOS, etc. You buy a Mac to run OS X, not Windows (unless you occasionally need it, but never full-time...come on man!).

Were you using parallels, boot camp? How long have you had the Macbook? It might just need a cleaning.

Another question: If you are dual-booting does OS X do the same thing?

 

[Onund]

Originally posted by: SoundTheSurrender

Originally posted by: Onund
do you have the charger plugged in when usually you don't?

My Eee ups the performance when connected to main power which causes more fan usage when compared to battery only operation.

My laptop is always plugged in. I don't know how much more I can say it. What it is doing right now is NOT NORMAL.

My laptop's fans are never full blast just browsing the internet. I'm just going to reformat and go back to OS X. Macbooks and Windows never worked out for me. Some petty thing always happens.

sorry dude, didn't mean to get your panties in a bunch. I was just trying to offer up my experience with my laptops, maybe something you overlooked. I guess not though.

But now I'm confused, you are newly running XP or have been for a long time and only now the fans are running when browsing the internet? Or are you saying OS X never had your fans full blast but XP does?

Either way, it sounds like you're taking a brute force approach to solving this problem and I don't need to be confused, good luck.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Sorry I just get frustrated, finals are this week.

This is a newly installed Windows Pro, I installed it like 2 weeks ago. There is no OS X partition, just Windows XP.

What I have found out is if I disable the Microsoft ACPI and Battery drivers my System Process goes down to zero and voila, no fans are full blast. I don't get it and it seems like a issue with Macbooks and Windows.

 

[KeypoX]

LOL no osx partition? I take it you need to run programs that are not compatible with leopard for school? My laptop never really gets hot, though older ones do get really hot.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Yeah, I'm just gonna buy a older CoreDuo Lenovo for my business use and use the Macbook to make my music.