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Originally posted by infinity HiGH System Idle Process is currently eating up the most CPU usage as I'm writing this. It's hovering between 55-70%. Is it supposed to be doing this while the system isn't idle?? And could it be that I'm using a PentiumIII 550 and Windows XP?

System Idle using CPU is normal. Something like DLLHOST.EXE is not normal. That = virus.

Oh, and your machine sucks!

Lets talk in April about my machine

So you're sayin I have a virus, or am I confused?

No. "System Idle" is a standard Windows process. If you had no other applications running and something other than "System Idle" was taking up huge chunks of CPU, you might have a virus.

Don't panic!

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Originally posted by infinity HiGH System Idle Process is currently eating up the most CPU usage as I'm writing this. It's hovering between 55-70%. Is it supposed to be doing this while the system isn't idle?? And could it be that I'm using a PentiumIII 550 and Windows XP?

system idle process is the kernel shell running, close that and windows will die very quickly...until u restart.

xp uses ALOT of ram, right now im on xp with a 1.25ghz amd/96mb SDRAM

it kills the ram and my cpu is idle through the startup process.

then again in the docs, the min requirements for xp was something like 1ghz+ processor with 128mb+ ram

and the minimum was a 233mhz with 64mb ram <- now u would literally be there for days waiting for XP to load up.

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Originally posted by Azz3D System idle process shows the percentage of CPU which is currently NOT USED

precisly.. and mine is around 97% so I doubt the problem is there..

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do you know what make your harddisk is? chances are its one of the following:
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www.maxtor.com
www.westerndigital.com

go to which ever company that made it web site, look at the support area, there will be a program you can download, that will run some diagnostic tests on your harddrive, my inital thought was its down to the harddrive, if the test comes out fine then can you list your complete computer specs?

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