Hardware Interrupts causing high cpu idle.

Katipo · 05-19-2008, 04:08 AM

Heya,
I having issues with my computer, its a HP pavillion a6300f,
Running an intel E2180 dual core, 2 gigs of ram and os vista 32 home premium.
I have issues with what process explorer describes as being a hardware interrupt, it uses between 25-99% of one of the cores capability and seems to use approximately 500-700mb of ram.

i have tried as much as i can muster.
Does anyone have any ideas that could save me a reinstall of my o/s.
i have called HP support but they seem more intent on, brushing me off, half assed guidance, or finding ways out of honouring my warranty than giving sound advice.

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truthseeker · 05-19-2008, 04:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Katipo

Heya,
I having issues with my computer, its a HP pavillion a6300f,
Running an intel E2180 dual core, 2 gigs of ram and os vista 32 home premium.
I have issues with what process explorer describes as being a hardware interrupt, it uses between 25-99% of one of the cores capability and seems to use approximately 500-700mb of ram.

i have tried as much as i can muster.
Does anyone have any ideas that could save me a reinstall of my o/s.
i have called HP support but they seem more intent on, brushing me off, half assed guidance, or finding ways out of honouring my warranty than giving sound advice.

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I am sad to say that when these type of issues come up, HP, nor MS would be able to find a solution for you.

Put it down to experience and reinstall Vista. And straight after Vista is installed and running good, then do a backup image of Vista using something like Acronis TrueImage. In this way, if anything like this happens again in the future, you simply restore the Vista image and in 10 minutes you are running good again.

Katipo · 05-19-2008, 05:26 AM

Cool thanks for the advice, looks like the enevitable reinstall, which ill do when i get time.
if there are any alternatives ill be glad to hear those too.

truthseeker · 05-19-2008, 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Katipo

Cool thanks for the advice, looks like the enevitable reinstall, which ill do when i get time.
if there are any alternatives ill be glad to hear those too.

Even if you rang the "tech experts" at MS, they would tell you to reinstall, due to your particular issue.

But not all is lost. Life is all about growth and wisdom and you have learned now to use a good imaging program to backup your PC, in case anything like this happens again :-)

05-19-2008, 04:08 AM	#1 (permalink)
Katipo Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 3 OS: vista 32bit home premium	Hardware Interrupts causing high cpu idle. Heya, I having issues with my computer, its a HP pavillion a6300f, Running an intel E2180 dual core, 2 gigs of ram and os vista 32 home premium. I have issues with what process explorer describes as being a hardware interrupt, it uses between 25-99% of one of the cores capability and seems to use approximately 500-700mb of ram. i have tried as much as i can muster. Does anyone have any ideas that could save me a reinstall of my o/s. i have called HP support but they seem more intent on, brushing me off, half assed guidance, or finding ways out of honouring my warranty than giving sound advice. : Last edited by Katipo; 05-19-2008 at 04:10 AM.

05-19-2008, 05:26 AM	#3 (permalink)
Katipo Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 3 OS: vista 32bit home premium	Re: Hardware Interrupts causing high cpu idle. Cool thanks for the advice, looks like the enevitable reinstall, which ill do when i get time. if there are any alternatives ill be glad to hear those too.