High CPU load detected by Windows.

FrankyP1212 · Mar 5, 2022

Hey guys my PC has been feeling off lately. So I ran the Win+R command "perfmon /report" and got the message " High CPU load. Investigate Top Processes" as it can be seen in the attached screenshot. However in the task manager my CPU load is only 7%. Any ideas what can be the cause of this?
PC Specs:
GPU:RX 6600 XT
CPU: Ryzen 7 3700 X
RAM: 16 GB 3200 MHZ DDR4
SSD: 1 TB Nvme
Mobo: B 550 Tomahawk
PSU: Corsair RM 750 X

ThrashZone · Mar 5, 2022

Hi,
Not sure I'd call 7% high
But I'd look at resource monitor sort and make sure thread is showing highest usage on top and see what's going on

mb194dc · Mar 5, 2022

Get Process Explorer and Process Monitor to check further

mama · Mar 5, 2022

You may have a problem with the health of one of your drives which is causing issues. Check the health of a drive with something like CrytalDiskInfo.

FrankyP1212 · Mar 5, 2022

mama said:
You may have a problem with the health of one of your drives which is causing issues. Check the health of a drive with something like CrytalDiskInfo.

Just did that and it says the health is perfect 100% 39 degrees celcius

ThrashZone said:
Hi,
Not sure I'd call 7% high
But I'd look at resource monitor sort and make sure thread is showing highest usage on top and see what's going on

View attachment 238794

It is not the task manager usage that is weird. it is weird that in the perfromance monitor of windows it says I am using 100% of my CPU

ThrashZone · Mar 5, 2022

Hi,
Bug don't use it use resource monitor or the third party tool posted.

Bill_Bright · Mar 5, 2022

FrankyP1212 said:
It is not the task manager usage that is weird. it is weird that in the perfromance monitor of windows it says I am using 100% of my CPU

And what else were you doing when running the monitor?

Did you run it again to see if you get the same results?

FrankyP1212 · Mar 5, 2022

Bill_Bright said:
And what else were you doing when running the monitor?

Did you run it again to see if you get the same re
ult

Bill_Bright said:
And what else were you doing when running the monitor?

Did you run it again to see if you get the same results?

I was not running any tasks . I get this result every time i run the performance test in windows

ThrashZone · Mar 5, 2022

Hi,
Performance trouble shooter tells you you're at 100% cpu usage running it and your surprised you get an error trying to do something else ?

Chrome and edge open plus what ever the red icon is

Win-11 bug

Frick · Mar 5, 2022

I would suggest keeping the task manager on, enable the CPU Top-or-whatever-it's-called column. Then when the PC "feels off" (whatever that means), check it and see what process spiked.

Bill_Bright · Mar 5, 2022

FrankyP1212 said:
I was not running any tasks . I get this result every time i run the performance test in windows

Is Windows fully updated?

What security software are you running?

FreedomEclipse · Mar 5, 2022

Chrome has a tendency to eat a lot of ram and CPU resources if you have it running with a lot of tabs open

Bill_Bright · Mar 5, 2022

FreedomEclipse said:
Chrome has a tendency to eat a lot of ram and CPU resources if you have it running with a lot of tabs open

This reminded me of something I meant to say earlier.

@FrankyP1212 - Do a cold reboot, then, without starting any browser or other app, run your monitor program and see what the CPU does.

By “cold”, I mean shut down the computer and flip the master power switch on the back of the power supply (if your supply has one) to off (or “O”) or unplug the power supply from the wall for about 15 seconds. Then turn the master power switch to on (or “|”) or reconnect power and boot up and see what happens. By totally removing power, you remove the +5Vsb standby voltage all ATX Form Factor power supplies are required to supply whenever the power supply is plugged into the wall and (if applicable) the master power switch is set to on. This standby voltage is distributed throughout several points on the motherboard, including RAM for faster boots and the USB ports too. This also keeps alive several features, including “wake on keyboard” and “wake on mouse”, and the network interface for “Wake on LAN” commands. A cold reboot ensures any device settings that may be held by the standby voltage are released, then reset when power is restored.

FreedomEclipse · Mar 5, 2022

Also mentioned in a previous thread about chrome running a diagnostic 'reporter tool' randomly in the background occasionally eats up a lot of CPU too

cvaldes · Mar 5, 2022

Google Chrome is a well known resource pig. This is nothing new, it has earned its dubious reputation over the years.

You're concurrently running Microsoft Edge which is also based on Chromium. I'm not convinced that the new Edge is a superior web browser. Microsoft continues to pile on new features to the browser. None of this is free (in terms of system resources).

The first thing to do is a cold start, keep your browsers closed and do your performance analysis.

FrankyP1212 · Mar 5, 2022

Bill_Bright said:
This reminded me of something I meant to say earlier.

@FrankyP1212 - Do a cold reboot, then, without starting any browser or other app, run your monitor program and see what the CPU does.

By “cold”, I mean shut down the computer and flip the master power switch on the back of the power supply (if your supply has one) to off (or “O”) or unplug the power supply from the wall for about 15 seconds. Then turn the master power switch to on (or “|”) or reconnect power and boot up and see what happens. By totally removing power, you remove the +5Vsb standby voltage all ATX Form Factor power supplies are required to supply whenever the power supply is plugged into the wall and (if applicable) the master power switch is set to on. This standby voltage is distributed throughout several points on the motherboard, including RAM for faster boots and the USB ports too. This also keeps alive several features, including “wake on keyboard” and “wake on mouse”, and the network interface for “Wake on LAN” commands. A cold reboot ensures any device settings that may be held by the standby voltage are released, then reset when power is restored.

Did that and still getting very high cpu load. No tasks at all running and just started the pc still shows cpu having 40%Use. I have seen youtube videos and asked friends and they all get low values on that field. All of my startup tasks are disabled btw

Cutechri · Mar 5, 2022

cvaldes said:
You're concurrently running Microsoft Edge which is also based on Chromium. I'm not convinced that the new Edge is a superior web browser. Microsoft continues to pile on new features to the browser. None of this is free (in terms of system resources).

I am convinced it is superior based from testing and measuring it's RAM management capability, but okay

Bill_Bright · Mar 5, 2022

I am not convinced anything is wrong here - especially since TM is single digit CPU usage.

FrankyP1212 said:
No tasks at all running and just started the pc still shows cpu having 40%Use.

Did you dink with your page file? If so, don't! Change back to the defaults where Windows manages the PF on all your drives.

Do you have lots of free space on your boot drive - say at least 30GB? If not, clean it up, uninstall programs you installed and don't use, then move your Documents and Downloads folders and other personal files to a different drive.

Do you completely power off your computer when done with your computing session? If so, don't. Just walk away and come back tomorrow.

AusWolf · Mar 5, 2022

FrankyP1212 said:
Hey guys my PC has been feeling off lately. So I ran the Win+R command "perfmon /report" and got the message " High CPU load. Investigate Top Processes" as it can be seen in the attached screenshot. However in the task manager my CPU load is only 7%. Any ideas what can be the cause of this?
PC Specs:
GPU:RX 6600 XT
CPU: Ryzen 7 3700 X
RAM: 16 GB 3200 MHZ DDR4
SSD: 1 TB Nvme
Mobo: B 550 Tomahawk
PSU: Corsair RM 750 X

7% is okay, considering there's also some network activity going on (Steam, Windows Update, Windows Security maybe?). Nothing wrong here.

Bill_Bright · Mar 5, 2022

AusWolf said:
7% is okay, considering there's also some network activity going on

Not just network activity - Windows does "housekeeping" chores when the computer and we are idle too - like indexing, defragging of hard drive and TRIM tasks of SSDs, prefetching and other tasks. Security programs update and scan too. This is why I said to just let our computers go to sleep.

Cutechri · Mar 5, 2022

Bill_Bright said:
This is why I said to just let our computers go to sleep.

I just lock mine overnight.

AusWolf · Mar 5, 2022

Bill_Bright said:
Not just network activity - Windows does "housekeeping" chores when the computer and we are idle too - like indexing, defragging of hard drive and TRIM tasks of SSDs, prefetching and other tasks. Security programs update and scan too. This is why I said to just let our computers go to sleep.

That too, but the OP's screenshot clearly shows some background network activity.

FrankyP1212 · Mar 6, 2022

I have 500 gb of free space on my drive and my ram passes the memory test from windows and is running at its rated speed of 3200 MHZ . The task manager and other softwares show normal cpu usages , only the windows diagnostics report shows this high cpu usage. Perhaps it is nothing but it is still weird though

AusWolf · Mar 6, 2022

FrankyP1212 said:
I have 500 gb of free space on my drive and my ram passes the memory test from windows and is running at its rated speed of 3200 MHZ . The task manager and other softwares show normal cpu usages , only the windows diagnostics report shows this high cpu usage. Perhaps it is nothing but it is still weird though

Exactly: it is nothing.

On my PC, there's nothing there at all. :roll:

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