greetings fellow earthlings! i am looking for the "oh yes, that happened to me" sort of answer to the following poser: i have put together an old pentium 4 system with bits i had lying around. the board is an intel 865glc (springdale) and a 2.8/800 northey. couple of 256/400 crucial sticks and loaded xp pro. everything was solid and i loaded up everest to remind myself of the limitations of the old p4 ladies of yore! imagine my surprise when i saw read/write/copy and latency figure more suited to a pentium 3! everything else seemed to be reported correctly, so i wondered what else was going on in the background. i opened the 'stability test' screen and saw that the chip was already working at around 50%!!!! i opened device manager; there was approximately zero usage on processes; 99% system idle, yet the cpu usage, again was at around 50%. had a look around in cmos settings; lifted cmos battery for twelve hours; loaded optimum settings; wiped the drive; reloaded the o/s....still the same! this was something completely new to me; so what is wrong? is the chip faulty? the mobo maybe? what am i missing? any imput very welcome thanks to all in advance
