Intel 965 chipset driver issue

I've just updated the driver for the intel 965 chipset, updated the driver to version 7.15.10.1554 dated 2/09/2008. Has anyone else dowloaded this and had any issues with it. I'm using Vista HP 64, Acer 5920.

Basically, before i updated my cpu was idling at 5% usage, now according to rmclock and Taskmanager it's idling at 50% usage. I'm a bit baffled at this and can't seem to find a cause. 50% seems a bit excesive when it's not doing anything. What could be causing this. I can't seem to pinpoint it.

 

If the previous driver worked fine for you, I would suggest that you simply revert to the previous driver.

 

Check which process is causing this. In taskmgr, check "show processes from all users", and then click on the CPU tab once or twice to arrange the processes in descending order of CPU usage.

 

Think i will revert back, just wondered if anyone else had the issue.

The worst abusers are igfxsrvc.exe and igfxsrvc Module. All intel related. Seems odd that the older version of the driver doesn't cause any issues but the newer one does. Might just be my system, maybe a bug in the 64x driver?????

 

I've just found another post in the dell section regarding intel/dell drivers, basically the dell driver for the 965 chipset disables the shader 4.0 support, whereas the intel version is enabled.

Could this be the same with the acer drivers (disabling some features), if so would it really eat up pretty much 50% of my cpu usage.

 

Where did you download the chipset driver from ?

 

I downloaded the latest one from Intels website. The one before came from acer, (but i'm sure i've had an update through windows which didn't have these issues).

 

There will be some process, that is causing that high CPU usage ? Have you checked task manager ?

 

igfxsrvc.exe is top of the list on cpu usage. This is intel related.

http://usera.ImageCave.com/bangert/Capture.JPG

 

You sure you installed the chipset or graphics drivers ?

http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/igfxsrvc

 

Went to intels website, downloaded what was there for the 965 chipset, then went to device manager and updated the express 965 chipset family driver, showed as updated once system restarted.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/fil...+64-bit+version&lang=eng&strOSs=159&submit=Go!

It's the media graphics accelerator. (should have said that in the beginning sorry!!!!).

 

Well, whatever you downloaded, it is not supposed to be installed through device manager.

There will be a setup.exe file in each of the driver folders. Run that.

GPU and Chipset. You'll find setup.exe, run them. (For Vista HP 64)

 

Still causes the issue. I'm going to revert back to the drivers before. Seems odd that it has such a high cpu usage.

 

Ok, before reinstalling checkout this and also in msconfig > startup items > disable any entries related to Intel Common User Interface, Restart and check CPU usage.

 

Right, all seems ok now, went into start-up and disabled 3 intel entries,

All were Intel (R) Common User Interface, files were \system32\hkcmd.exe, \system32\ighfxtray.exe, \system32\igfxpers.exe.

Doesn't seem to have any negative effect on system as yet, so will keep an eye on it. Cheers Andy for your help, much appreciated.

 

You can check out each of their functions at Intel's site.

I think the hkcmd is hot key command setting, and the 2nd one is for a tray icon in systray, and the 3rd is for a shortcut menu when you right-click on the desktop. Nothing really imp, just shortcuts. You can tweak the display settings the normal way in the display props.