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    SOLVED: High Cpu usage at idle

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by calibrah, Dec 30, 2009.

  1. calibrah

    calibrah Notebook Guru

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    Hello. I have been having a problem with my m17x for a while now and I just figured it out. The system idle process and CPU usage numbers did not add up. The system idle process was always at 99-95 and my CPU usage was still up on the 40s and 50s. (this makes some games really choppy.)

    I was searching on some other forums and tried resetting my bios by taking off the back cover of the m17x and re seating the battery. All is well now! I am now back down to 1-5 cpu idle when nothing is running!

    I hope this helps someone else. I made a post about this issue a month back and some people had a similar problem.
     
    calibrah, Dec 30, 2009
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