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99% gpu usage when idle!

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im at a friends house trying to install a new gpu as his only one died.

its an xfx 4770 and its getting terible fps in games. the problem apears to be that when idle at the desktop with nothing 3d running its at 99% usage (reported by CCC and gpuz).

ran AVG and it found nothing so i dont think its a virus.

any help is apreciated.

ps. its OS is 32-bit xp
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folding on it?
Are you folding on it?
no, not even any trace of [email protected] on the pc, searched for it quite extencivly coz i thaught thats what it was aswell
CHeck for any background processes running that might be hogging up the resources. On my folding rigs I have mis-matched cards, both of them are 9600 GSO's but 1 is Evga and the other it Asus. When I load up my rig it shoot usage to 100%, when I check to see what processes are running in the background, I see Asus's smart doctor program trying to locate the cards which is in the 2nd slot. Well it never locates it and just pegs the usage and slows the rig down.

Try re-installing the driver and CCC, see if that helps.

Good Luck
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I would look at task manager and see what is running.
driver has been reinstalled 3 times, all with no luck, used driversweaper aswell in safe mode.

somthing i just noticed tho, in task manager 'system idle process' is 95-99 in the processes tab but in the performance tab cpu usage is about 40-50% core 0 is using virtualy nothing but core 1 is about 85% usage.

somthing odd is going on hear.
sry for double post.

could this possibly a fault with the gfx card? or maybe a virus even that sliped through avg?
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driver has been reinstalled 3 times, all with no luck, used driversweaper aswell in safe mode.

somthing i just noticed tho, in task manager 'system idle process' is 95-99 in the processes tab but in the performance tab cpu usage is about 40-50% core 0 is using virtualy nothing but core 1 is about 85% usage.

somthing odd is going on hear.

Is SpeedStep or CoolNQuiet enabled?

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sry for double post.

could this possibly a fault with the gfx card? or maybe a virus even that sliped through avg?

I haven't heard of a virus that utilizes the GPU...
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Is the card warm etc? Could it just be a software issue that is showing it fully loaded or is it actually running that way.
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