Both my cpu's are pegged at 100%. i have reset the PRAM twice and to no avail, they are still pegged. I have nothing running at the moment. The fans also crank up to 6k as soon as I turn on the computer. I am running the latest version of Leopard on intel with 4 gig/ram. They should be hovering around 8% to 12% when idle. I have checked the activity monitor and there is nothing out of the ordinary running. Any suggestions on what this could be and how I can fix this? Thanks
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MBP Cpu's pegged
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Ok. Here is the screenshot. I noticed when I was going through the tasks before I made this thread, that this "printjobmgr." I have never seen this before and when I tried to force quit it asked me for my admin password, etc. I didn't want to force quit this if it was asking me for those privileges. As you can see, its using 100% of the cpu's. I dont even have a printer hooked up, if that is really what this task is. I would only assume so.
http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/963/47582000tr9.jpg
Wow. That is just so weird. I have a Canon IP6000D. I only plug it in when I need to print something. The last time I printed something was just last night. I forced quit the program and the computer is back to normal. I am going to post the picture over at apple as well. Thank you 2 for the help. I appreciate it.
Your problem is caused by old print jobs sitting in your print queue. Go to System Preferences | Print & Fax, then go into Open Print Queue. Delete all jobs in the queue, and voila!
Exactly.
I had this problem too a few weeks ago. Every Mac in my house was at full fan speed and 100% CPU. Someone else in the house had left something in the print queue of the AirPort Printer (Canon iP6220, coincidentally [or not]). Once I saw the Activity Monitor, I just opened the printer and canceled the job. Everything was back to normal.