unusually high interrupts/second

[BSG]

The processor on my HP pavilion machine is always at
around 20% activity even when idle thread is at 99%.
Performance montor shows that interrupt time is coming
around 18%. Interrupt/second is coming to be around 6500
which is a high number. Looks like a hardware issue to me
but all the devices are in OK state as visible in the
system information window. I recently upgraded my system
from ME to XP and since I do not see any hardware issues
what can bethe cause of such interrupts that are keeping
my athlon 1 GHz processor busy? Any ideas are appreciated.
Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Do you have a virus scanner?
Trojan horses can start up with your computer and stay in
the background sending back and forth information through
the internet to a hacker. This is why some people can see
their computer loading when it is idle.

 

[Pavel A.]

Try to detach or disable devices one by one (a.k.a. lion in the desert algorithm).

- PA

 

[BSG]

YesI have Norton antivirus running with latest signatures
and my machine has aal the service packs installed. I have
a zonealarm firewall running as well when connected to the
internet.
High interrupt time mentioned in my message earlier means
that processor is busy processing interrupts. Can a trojan
lead to high level of interrupts?

 

[BSG]

Thanks. I will try that.

-----Original Message-----
Try to detach or disable devices one by one (a.k.a. lion in the desert algorithm).

- PA

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