try getting Process Explorer. It gives a really good breakdown of what is using your system resources. It could be the indexing service, if it it is a new PC. posted by slavlin at 10:27 AM on March 25, 2006
Well, adding an actual video card is always a good idea. But really the rig sounds sufficient... I think you have a software problem.
Try slavlin's suggestion. posted by selfnoise at 10:28 AM on March 25, 2006
Are you leaving some kind of P2P software running? If it has too many half open ports (or something) open, it can force SYSTEM to use a lot of CPU, since it has to do the actual management of connections.
I've seen this before, but I can't remember if Process Explorer was able to see the problem correctly. posted by easyasy3k at 11:14 AM on March 25, 2006
Response by poster: No P2P software is on this machine. It is a fairly clean install of Windows MCE. posted by benjh at 11:18 AM on March 25, 2006
If it's not spyware, it's likely a device driver. Make sure to update ALL drivers with the latest (preferably "signed") versions. Especially that tuner card.
Your machine is plenty capable of running XP MCE; you could easily handle dual tuners and an ATSC tuner, if you wanted to. It's not that dissimilar to the MCE machine I was running before my current one, and it ran like a charm. posted by Merdryn at 12:51 PM on March 25, 2006
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