=?Utf-8?B?ZGJfY29vcGVyMTk1MA==?=

"Homer of Nac" wrote:

> Check your system logs. I had a similar issue and was able to track it to a
> faulty NIC driver (Marvel Yukon). The driver installed OK, but was generating
> hundreds of error messages a minute. Once I disabled it, CPU useage droped to
> 5% or less when I was idle. I am on AMD 64 X2 4200 with 4 gigs of ram. VIA
> chipset.

Homer,
Thank you, I had called myself checking the event logs but not thoroughly
enough, as you pointed out I found that a program was dumping silent errors
very often. Between the errors and the log entries it was really keeping the
system busy.