Hello again, i need urgent help with this problem.
A while ago i posted in this forum asking for help about why my cpu usage was at 50% when the pc was doing nothing. A very helpfull person helped me find out more about this problem and we found out through process explorer that the usage was caused by hardware interupts.
Now in safe mode i get 0-5% cpu usage wich is fine, now when i boot normally this always is around 50-60%. Eventually we figured that it is probably a driver issue and i left it at that as i did not wish to reformat at that time.
Today i installed another hard disk into my pc a decided to fresh install a copy of xp onto that. After the installation was complete before i installed any drivers i checked the cpu usage, it was back up to around 50% while idle again. I checked safe mode and it went back down to 5%.
I have tried both normal Xp Pro and the x64 version.
I cannot determine the source of this problem and hope that because of it running fine in safe mode that it is not a hardware related problem.
My Pc specs are as follows :-
Amd Athlon 64 3700+
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
1gb pc3200 ocz Ram
BFG Nvidia 7900gt oc 256mb
80gb Sata Hd
580 Q-Tec Psu
Any Help will be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Dan
^^ sorry for any spelling mistakes in the above thread :)

