Hey, I need some help. I have a regular, non-Overclocked Athlon 64 3200+. Everything will be fine, but if the computer is on for a while (say 8+ hours) the CPU will randomly jump to high usage (70%-100%). Right now I have no major programs running, and my CPU Usage is at 80%.. idling! Under processes, "System Idle Process" is the only one that has anything in the CPU column. Logging out and back in won't do anything, however a restart will bring it back down to 0% when at idle until it decided to be randonly high again when on for a while. What's going on? How can this be happening? I realize that there might be more steps to diagnose this, but I'm willing to heed any advice. Thanks in advance, Rege

sounds like you have spyware...run a full system scan This space for rent

Sorry, didn't have time earlier. The following site has all the files you need, plus a lot more. I highly recommend Ad-Aware Personal, Spybot Search & Destroy, SpywareBlaster, & CCleaner. Install them & run them regularly. No system should be without them..... http://www.filehippo.com/ This space for rent

Hi jam, thanks for the response. Yeah, I have SpyBot, Ad-Aware and Spyware Blaster. I am quite to very-quite certain that there is not any spyware on my machine. I also notice not one suspicious line in my HiJack This! log nor in my System Processes at any given time. I also have Zone-Alarm and AVG Free as my antivirus and firewall. Thanks, Rege

Run MSCONFIG & see if there's anything suspicious listed under the Startup tab This space for rent

Yes! "PowerReg Scheduler" was there. It was just an .exe directly in the startup directory, which is how it must have not been listed in both jv16 reg startup menu, and HiJack This. Looks to be legit, just a nuisance pop-up reminder is what a quick search on google tells me. I'm assuming it must be from my Viewsonic monitor I installed, as every other startup it asks me to register. I've deleted it and restarted, but I'm not sure that this is what is causing my CPU performance problem. Since I've restarted, I won't know until it happens again after leaving my comp on for a period of time. Thanks! Expect another message tomorrow :) -Rege

when did this start happening??? if it just started happening recently, and you are sure you have no spyware/adware/malware on your system, then run system restore to the last point you knew it worked correctly. and keep in mind that the "free" or "trial" versions of those anti-***ware programs DO NOT actually remove those ***ware that they find, they simply tell you it's there Don't put a question here? lol