rhamulus

i just finished my new build with a q6600 and when i have windows vista running with really nothing else going the cpu usage stays around 50% but has gone as high as 100 with no programs running, I downloaded Process Explorer so it could tell me what is being used and i found that everything looks normal except for something called Hardware Interrupts which goes from 5% to 15% and something called Deferred Procedure Calls which stays around 20% and goes as high as 30%. I cant close them and i dont really know what they are or how to fix them. I noticed that when i turned the computer on after it had been off all night that both of those were at 0% and cpu usage was around 1 or 2 percent with nothing open as it should be, but as the day went on and things were used it got higher to the numbers i said. any help on any of these issues would be appreciated, i got a q6600 cause i thought it would be a vast improvement over my 4 year old pentium4 and while it is better it seems sluggish at times because the cpu usage is so high.

FreoHeaveho

First step here imho, is to go to our HJT forum section and read the instrucitons and then post a thread.