CPU is running at 100%, help

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I have a two year old Dell running Win XP PRO.
The computer is running very very slow, CPU is always at 100%, and the
computer creates 2000MBs of virtual memory.
MacAfee anti-virus expired two months ago.
Tried a recovery install, after 5 hours still would not finish reloading.
Tried wiping hard drive, even removed Dells EISA boot partition.
So with a fresh primary partition, tried reinstalling again,
still would not finish installing after 3 hours\0\0\0Any ideas ?
 
Ctrl + Shift + Esc | Procesess tab | CPU column |
What's using all the horsepower??
 
sounds like a dying hard drive.
when did you last do a full check of the hard drive?
 
Installed the hard drive as a 2nd in my other computer.
Removed all partitions, made one single partition and reformatted twice, no
problem there.

Husky said:
sounds like a dying hard drive.
when did you last do a full check of the hard drive?
I have a two year old Dell running Win XP PRO.
The computer is running very very slow, CPU is always at 100%, and the
computer creates 2000MBs of virtual memory.
MacAfee anti-virus expired two months ago.
Tried a recovery install, after 5 hours still would not finish reloading.
Tried wiping hard drive, even removed Dells EISA boot partition.
So with a fresh primary partition, tried reinstalling again,
still would not finish installing after 3 hoursAny ideas ?
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