Thanks - any idea what could be causing this?
My system has a (possibly related) glitch that from time to time, it hangs
and waits for the HDD (light on) for 10-15 seconds. Although a bit of an
annoyance, I've discovered that if this happens while media centre is
recording, it'll cause a bluescreen
I've been chalking it up to the file
copy problem, though I'm not sure this is the case.
The system is an Asus MNPV-VM (nVidia 430 chipset with integrated 6150
graphics) with a Samsung spinpoint P120 250Gb HDD running Home Premium x64.
Thanks again,
Edwin
"AJR" wrote:
> There is a ReadyBoost cache on the HD whether or not you have an external
> device and is used primarily for non-sequential read/write to the HD.
>
> Turning off the service reduces CPU usage (mostly during "idle" time),
> however depending upon what activity is going on performance will probably
> suffer.
>
> "E-" <E-@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0CED13CD-4036-4F54-929F-CE3F2CAFC388@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > For the past couple of days, I've noticed my CPU usage is very high at
> > idle
> > (>50% on one core of my Athlon64x2).
> >
> > I finally got annoyed enough to try to work out what it was, and it turns
> > out it was the readyboost service (I used task manager and the process
> > explorer). This is odd, because I don't have any USB drives attached to
> > the
> > system. What's stranger is that it happened at every boot, and I was
> > unable
> > to stop the service while it was running.
> >
> > I've now disabled the service at startup, and we're back to normal CPU
> > utilisation levels.
> >
> > Does anyone have an idea as to what could be causing this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Edwin
>
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