Major Bios Update Problems With A05 R1

Hey guys something serious happened to my laptop today..

I upgraded to the New Bios A05 for my M11x R1..

AND when I restarted the installer when I came in.

My CPU USAGE was becoming off the charts around 40 - 90 % Usage

Its been Spiking around there and stuff and also My GPU Geforce is at a Constant 46 - 55 Degrees.

Whatever I had before (Bios wise) was much better if anyone has any Help or advice they could give me on this problem it would be GREATLY Appreciated.

 

I hope someone responds with some type of answer.

 

Try reinstall.
If that doesn't work, use the microsoft system restore, and restore to the point before you installed the BIOS.

 

does let me reinstall it says the Current version is already installed..

 

A system restore isn't going to have any impact on the BIOS.

What does Task Manager show you is utilizing your CPU?

 

OMG. ssytem restore made it worse...

 

Hold on Sickle uhhh Im not really a tech person but its using the CPU like mad now its 76 - 100% Usage. and the temperature on my GPU is high around 50

 

Okay Ive restarted it and everytime I have reboot It spikes for like 5 minutes to the made Usage and then after about 10 Minutes it Calms down like it used to be around 4 - 5% idle.

 

but Then it starts spiking after a bit for no reason so I mean wow this really screwed up my comp...

 

Alot of the programs lag too..especially explorer.exe. Gahhhh

 

Task manager > Processes tab > click on the CPU column header so that it sorts processes by CPU utilization in descending order. Give us the name of the process(es) that have a high percentage other than System Idle Process.

Should look something like this.

 

I've updated from A04 to A05 and I've not noticed anything like you've described. Follow Slickie's instructions as it does sound like you a load of chaff loading at start up that is just throttling your system.

Post your process list and we'll help trim out the rubbish so it's not acting quite so erratically.

 

I reformatted my computer the bios version is still at A05

and im still having CPU issues. with the CPU usage this is just mind boggling..

Im not that great with computers but I want my M11x To be okay.

 

soooo... after doing as suggested, what do you see?

 

msnmsgr.exe 40k

firefox - 50k

Listen.. all I see is that.. My FAN IS ON HIGH SPEED LOUD for the majority of boot up. In that time I only had Windows Live and firefox up. and my cpu usage was about 59% +

Until like 20 Minutes in.. Suddenly it stops.. and goes to low quiet fan speed and my CPU usage is normal again around 1 - 2 %.

Heres a picture of what I have in the processes.

PS: Sorry about freaking out its just I love my m11x so much and I hate seeing these things happen.

 

Just as a little bit of extra information This laptop is like 4 Weeks Old, and I just got it in the end of July it was working great until what ever I did... So I mean I didnt drop it or anything like that either its been in great shape.

 

And the CPU usage in the picture isnt right it spikes so high in the beginning all the time.

I could restart and take another screenshot but again that would be pointless I took the screenshot after I read the post which was like 15 mins later lol

 

Hmm...maybe he needs to use that disk and do a factory reinstall?
Hopefully that would fix everything...

 

we want the screenshot to give us an idea of what processes are running and thereby what you can kill as unecessary.

capturing the spike could be handy but not critical. can you stretch the task manager window to get in as much as possible, and sort the CPU column so the most resource hungry programs are at the top.

 

I used the factory install disk today and reformatted the picture I gave had the task manager Processes.

@Spruce

I gave an attachment with my processes? that ones my picture.

 

A reformat or restore point will not have any impact on the BIOS.

What we need from you with Task Manager is to click on the CPU column header so that it will sort processes by CPU utilization. You want to see the processes using the most CPU sorted to the top of the list. the screen shot you posted has processes sorted by Name.

 

For the last time, restoring hd isn't going to roll back the bios. Bios something that's in the mobo, not in the harddrive.

I doubt spike on the cpu has anything to do w/ the bios update anyways.

 

My guess? Old drivers etc with new bios = flakey

 

^This.

10char

 

As much as a pain in the rear it is to reinstall apps, I suggest you take a moment and restore back to an out of box state using DataSafe Local. Doing so will tell you if you have a HW issue. I'm betting all your problems will vanish

 

Your attached screenshot is showing your CPU usage at 10%.

 

Thanks batboy it fixed the problem.

I want to thank everyone who helped me with this problem or at least helped me discuss it.