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50% CPU Usage after DH Mobility Modder
I have a Gateway M6755PRR Replacement Desktop. It's a powerful laptop with a Inter P4 3.4Ghz processor w/ hyperthreading, 1GB RAM, 2 hard drives for a total of 140GB's of storage, ATI Radeon Mobility 9700 (128mb) and it's got a 17" widescreen display.
I bought this when I was going to school almost 3 years ago. Even now it still outperforms a lot of laptops out there in the market.
The only problem I have had with it was the video driver suppoer from Gateway which is ZERO. The last update on the ATI Video Driver was in 2005. When I was attending school, I used some patched drivers to be able to play some games that I had installed on it (Raven Shield/Ghost Recon).
After a while I got tired of the games and un-installed them, and decided to reformat and re-install all the original drivers for smooth operation. Today I decided to install Raven Shield again to give it another try, but the original drivers wouldn't allow me to play the game.
I did some snooping around and found DH Mobility Modder. I followed all the instructions and was able to install the new drivers without a flaw, and the game plays fine now. The only problem I noticed that even when I'm not doing ANYTHING (no programs running, etc.), my CPU is running at 50% ALL THE TIME.
I pulled up the task manager and looked in the Processes tab to see what is causing my CPU to run that high (normally idles below 5%). There are 2 processes using CPU at idle but they are the "System" process and the "System Idle Process". Both of those hovering around 50% but their memory usage is just 84k and 16k. Every other process is at 0% CPU usage.
Anyone have an idea as to why it would be running so high? I don't want to have to un-install ATI Catalyst and roll back my video drivers as I want to be able to play Raven Shield.
HELP?
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