nVidia Drivers and CPU Utilization

[Peregrin]

ASUS A7N8X-E
Barton Mobile XP2600 at 2200MHz
Kingmax MPXC22D PC-3200 2x512MB
WinXP SP1

Hi Folks,

I started putting together the above system, and after installing the
nVidia nForce drivers from the CD, PERFMON showed an erratic CPU
utilization, of about 2% to 5% for about 5 seconds every about 12 seconds.
Before installing the driver, it was a steady 0%. I'd like to know if
this is normal for the above MOBO, or if there is something wrong
somewhere.

If you never looked at this, click start, run, enter 'perfmon', and you'll
see a pretty graph showing CPU, Memory, and HDD utilization. The green
line is the CPU. I'd very appreciate knowing what you find out. Oh yes,
all applications should be turned off when you check this.

I also see occasional spikes of memory usage, going from 20% to 100%. They
tend to be more pronounced right after rebooting, and settle down and
gradually stop after maybe 15 minutes.

Is any of the above something I should try to do something about, or is it
normal and can I just forget about it?

Thank you for any and all input!

 

[Ken Maltby]

ASUS A7N8X-E
Barton Mobile XP2600 at 2200MHz
Kingmax MPXC22D PC-3200 2x512MB
WinXP SP1

Hi Folks,

I started putting together the above system, and after installing the
nVidia nForce drivers from the CD, PERFMON showed an erratic CPU
utilization, of about 2% to 5% for about 5 seconds every about 12 seconds.
Before installing the driver, it was a steady 0%. I'd like to know if
this is normal for the above MOBO, or if there is something wrong
somewhere.

If you never looked at this, click start, run, enter 'perfmon', and you'll
see a pretty graph showing CPU, Memory, and HDD utilization. The green
line is the CPU. I'd very appreciate knowing what you find out. Oh yes,
all applications should be turned off when you check this.

I also see occasional spikes of memory usage, going from 20% to 100%. They
tend to be more pronounced right after rebooting, and settle down and
gradually stop after maybe 15 minutes.

Is any of the above something I should try to do something about, or is it
normal and can I just forget about it?

Thank you for any and all input!

This is most likely normal background processing, it gets
even worse with SP2, but has no real impact. You can
turn off the automatic loading of unneeded "Services" to
cut this back some. You should run a good spyware
detector like "AdAware" as well as your virus scanner.

The startup activity is normal, but the over 5% usage should
only last a few minuets, unless you get a popup scanning message.
It is a good idea to let your system sit until the disk activity at
startup finishes, so that most of the background functions that run
only once (at start-up) have a chance to complete and unload
themselves.

Luck;
Ken

 

[Andy Lee]

ASUS A7N8X-E
Barton Mobile XP2600 at 2200MHz
Kingmax MPXC22D PC-3200 2x512MB
WinXP SP1

Hi Folks,

I started putting together the above system, and after installing the
nVidia nForce drivers from the CD, PERFMON showed an erratic CPU
utilization, of about 2% to 5% for about 5 seconds every about 12 seconds.
Before installing the driver, it was a steady 0%. I'd like to know if
this is normal for the above MOBO, or if there is something wrong
somewhere.

If you never looked at this, click start, run, enter 'perfmon', and you'll
see a pretty graph showing CPU, Memory, and HDD utilization. The green
line is the CPU. I'd very appreciate knowing what you find out. Oh yes,
all applications should be turned off when you check this.

I also see occasional spikes of memory usage, going from 20% to 100%. They
tend to be more pronounced right after rebooting, and settle down and
gradually stop after maybe 15 minutes.

Is any of the above something I should try to do something about, or is it
normal and can I just forget about it?

Thank you for any and all input!

Here's a bet for you. installing the nvidia drives enables the nvidia
NIC . Guess XP is polling the card to see if there is anything
connected to it.