System = 100% CPU

[musicpyrite]

The tittle pretty much says it all.

Well, I don't know what to do.
I've repaid permissions twice.
Logged out.
Restarted twice.

When I go into the Activity Monitor, my CPU is running 100%, and 80%+ is coming from the System. I've tried to sort the processes by how much they use, but no single process is taking up more than 5%, and most of them read 0%.

It's not the Finder, as some other people have reported.

Any ideas?

btw, I've mad sure to quit F@H.

 

[stoid]

sort by CPU, or whatever you have to do to find which processes are going full blast. Sometimes, I get a WindowServer process that acts up, and I log out and back in, and that fixes the problem.

 

[vraxtus]

The tittle pretty much says it all.

Well, I don't know what to do.
I've repaid permissions twice.
Logged out.
Restarted twice.

When I go into the Activity Monitor, my CPU is running 100%, and 80%+ is coming from the System. I've tried to sort the processes by how much they use, but no single process is taking up more than 5%, and most of them read 0%.

It's not the Finder, as some other people have reported.

Any ideas?

btw, I've mad sure to quit F@H.

Clean install your OS?

If that doesn't work it's prolly the logic board.

 

[musicpyrite]

sort by CPU, or whatever you have to do to find which processes are going full blast. Sometimes, I get a WindowServer process that acts up, and I log out and back in, and that fixes the problem.

Check out the pic below, from the number below, I should only be using 27.6% of my CPU, but the monitor sill says 100%.

Clean install your OS?

If that doesn't work it's prolly the logic board.

I was thinking about re installing the OS, but I want to leave that as a last resort.

And why would the logic board cause this kind of problem? (if it in fact is the logic board)

 

[Sun Baked]

Are you sure it isn't something silly you added to destroy your computer like Konfabulator or Norton?

 

[musicpyrite]

I don't use norton, because of the horror stories I've heard from here, and I'm too cheap to buy it.

And I haven't installed any kind of software in the past week and a half, or don't any major changes that could cause this kind of problem.

Just browsing the internet, listening to music, and chatting for me.

 

[vraxtus]

Check out the pic below, from the number below, I should only be using 27.6% of my CPU, but the monitor sill says 100%.



I was thinking about re installing the OS, but I want to leave that as a last resort.

And why would the logic board cause this kind of problem? (if it in fact is the logic board)

Well... I was having some noticeably strange performance issues, more with the RAM however, and I found that kernel panics kept happening which were associated with logic board problems.

 

[Sun Baked]

Any updates in that time, sometimes they will send something off the deep end.

System Updates are usually really good at doing this if a program has a kext file.

 

[titaniumducky]

The tittle pretty much says it all.

Well, I don't know what to do.
I've repaid permissions twice.
Logged out.
Restarted twice.

When I go into the Activity Monitor, my CPU is running 100%, and 80%+ is coming from the System. I've tried to sort the processes by how much they use, but no single process is taking up more than 5%, and most of them read 0%.

It's not the Finder, as some other people have reported.

Any ideas?

btw, I've made sure to quit F@H.

It is almost definitely NOT hardware related from the sounds of it. My guess is that there's a hidden process not showing up in Activity Monitor. Type "top -o cpu" in Terminal to run the process manager and sort entries by cpu. This may reveal something that Activity Monitor isn't showing. Hopefully this will help you out.

 

[musicpyrite]

Yes, I did update to 10.3.5 2 days ago.

But the problem seems fixed, I don't know what was causing it though.

I ran a hardware check, nothing
Repaired permissions
updated prebindings
daily, weekly, and monthly periodics

One of those seems to have fixed it.

So problme fixed for now.

Too bad it wasn't a logic board or something more important, I would have waited a few weeks to see if I could get one of those new G5 iMacs, but fat chance, I'd still probbably get a G4

 

[vraxtus]

Yes, I did update to 10.3.5 2 days ago.

But the problem seems fixed, I don't know what was causing it though.

I ran a hardware check, nothing
Repaired permissions
updated prebindings
daily, weekly, and monthly periodics

One of those seems to have fixed it.

So problme fixed for now.

Too bad it wasn't a logic board or something more important, I would have waited a few weeks to see if I could get one of those new G5 iMacs, but fat chance, I'd still probbably get a G4

Well I'm glad. I ran all those tests, and came up with nothing - did the clean install and still got panics, so mine was CERTAINLY hardware related.