Check out process explorer https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer to try to track down the culprit.
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 1:54 PM, lopaka polena <lopa...@gmail.com> wrote: > You running any AV or malwarebytes on it? I've seen those grab CPU > resources but only for a couple minutes after boot then usually tapers off. > > lopaka > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 10:42 AM, Bino Gopal <binogo...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hey guys, my fancy new MSI laptop (I fixed the random freeze/lockup issue > > btw, once I replaced the cracked USB/audio board back in Nov!!) is doing > > this weird thing where it goes to 100% CPU shortly after boot and stays > > pegged at 100%. > > > > It does this even when totally disconnected from any network and I did > > check Task Manager and Resource Monitor (for more detail) but I couldn't > > really find any running process that was grabbing the CPU and I did try > > shutting down anything that looked suspicious... > > > > Anyone seen this before (Win10 Pro v1709 OS 16299.192 64-bit) and any > > ideas...? > > >