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Old 04-18-2009   #7 (permalink)
subhodeep86


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Re: Help needed: CPU getting extremely hot even on Idle

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by stew2 View Post
OK well get the basics out of the way first. What Virus Scanner are you using?
I am using avast home version.

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by archie123 View Post
hold down ctrl and alt hit delete once , under the processes tab what servce is taking up your cpu cycles
explorer.exe is taking the maximum cpu cycles, its cpu utilization is around late 40s even when idle.

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by moirae View Post
If this is a new notebook, I would only do some checking to see what is actually causing the cpu workload and see if there is something you can disable to calm it down somewhat...

Other than that, I would honestly be returning it and getting a new one.
Can you really do that? I am unaware of such a policy please enlighten me.

Ans Thanks everybody for your help.
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