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Heavy CPU Usage for Interrupt

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Mar 15, 20262226 views
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As a follow-up to the question Why can't my computer speed up again after closing large applications? … I used Process Explorer to check my PC. I found that there's an average 30-40% of CPU being used by . Is that normal? If it is not normal, could you suggest any method to check for the cause? EDI…

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Interrupt

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Fix for: Heavy CPU Usage for Interrupt

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No, that's definitely not normal. The most likely cause of such a higher interrupt level is broken hardware or a broken driver. It can also be caused by a disk being in PIO mode rather than DMA mode. Sometimes it can even be a BIOS bug.

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