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On the Start Menu choose "All Programs", then go to "Administrative Tools",
and choose "Event Viewer", then when the viewer loads choose which type of
logs that you wish to view, "Applications", "System", "Security", etc.

"astro999" wrote:

> Just one question how do you check your system logs?
> My CPU useage is pretty high at times.
> --
> Thank you
> astro999
>
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> "db_cooper1950" wrote:
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> >
> >
> > "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.