It's not the ram, Jaz-- I tried it with another set of ram sticks just in case.

At this point, it could be that the video card is drawing too much power (but it doesn't seem so possible thinking about it.)

Ram sticks are definitely okay. Tested fine.

I can't be certain of the other hardware other than the fact that I swapped out the PSU.

What really bugs me though is that Silver and I weren't able to understand the results when we booted my machine into linux (using a cd) -- the computer was definitely running pretty normal but we weren't quite able to figure out if it was also showing the same CPU overload stuff.

However, I do understand that the CPU overload is from the constant hardware interrupt messages that are showing up in a detailed version of the task manager that Silver downloaded a while ago trying to figure this problem out.

Is L4D out for PS3 yet? :P

Kia if I may ask this is anything out of the ordinary overclocked on your computer? Like Frontside Bus, CPU, etc? If you did it might have an effect on the PSU and drawing too much power. I remember when you got this system brand new which was about a year or so ago.

KiaPurity Wrote:It's not the ram, Jaz-- I tried it with another set of ram sticks just in case. At this point, it could be that the video card is drawing too much power (but it doesn't seem so possible thinking about it.) Ram sticks are definitely okay. Tested fine. I can't be certain of the other hardware other than the fact that I swapped out the PSU. What really bugs me though is that Silver and I weren't able to understand the results when we booted my machine into linux (using a cd) -- the computer was definitely running pretty normal but we weren't quite able to figure out if it was also showing the same CPU overload stuff. However, I do understand that the CPU overload is from the constant hardware interrupt messages that are showing up in a detailed version of the task manager that Silver downloaded a while ago trying to figure this problem out. Is L4D out for PS3 yet? :P

Was it a interrupt request between the HDMI and what ever else it was?

Me I just got in a 400 gig hard drive over here and on the way of formatting it with ntfs on my other computer over here. A simple AMD Atholon 1.8ghz 1 gig of ram, 400 gig primary, 40 gig secondary for databackup. IBuilt in Nvidia video card, netowrk and sound car. I'm debating to put in windows XP and slap in Tron 2.0 and see it between two computers locally or conver it into a server over here. And have something ele done with it. I have almost every version of windows server here except for Windows NT 4.0 server.

KiaPurity Wrote:Silver finally found the problem-- it was some kind of weird conflict with some Windows driver and HDMI chip on video card that was causing the crazy CPU usage. Now my CPU usage is back to normal, no more machine lag! (Still want to kick someone at Microsoft in kneecaps for this hassle.) Woohoo, back to L4D now!

Already preordered L4D2 for me and my brother.

Demo was fun but they need to fix the melee. >_

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