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Where do these pop up ads come from when you have yet to visit a web site after turning on your cpu? Are they possible because Windows Messenger is enabled? Or have they been planted inside the machine during a previous visit to some site? How do you keep them away? Thanks Alan

Archangel, you make a good point. I had to think back(I've been working on this problem for several months), and actually when I first experienced the high cpu usage someone recommended I disable my Norton antivirus(which I did), thinking it might be the cause. I had been running it up to that...

Thanks for the sites. When I get this situation resolved, I'll stay on top of things with periodic scans. I did a full PitStop scan, no viruses were found. Alan

Just what you suggested above... a couple of things that were constantly searching for upgrades from Microsoft. Alan

Gnome...Didn't you post to my cpu problem this morning? I read it by clicking on it in my email, but it doesn't show up on this thread. Where did it go? Anyway, here is the latest... although the warrantee has expired, since I brought this problem to IBM's attention while it was still under...

I wouldn't say the problem gradually got worse after the system recovery. The improvement(less cpu usage)has remained. It seems like something is running in the background that is using it up, some kind of conflict. After the recovery listening to the radio cpu usage went from 55% to 15%, and...

This is truly a strange deal... In thinking back, even when I would run a streaming audio(radio station), cpu usage averaged around 55%. After a complete system recovery, it dropped down to about 15%. After disabling something that was constantly looking for Microsoft updates yesterday, cpu...

I want to thank everyone for all their help yesterday. I got a lot of good ideas to work with-which is what I've been doing all day today. I installed the original single output Nvidia card the cpu came with, and it still uses way too much processor... averaging over 50% with MBTrading and 4...

When I went in to the bios a couple of days ago I discovered it was set to PCI already. I switched it to AGP, and had hopes this might solve the problem. I should have tried a different PCI slot when I tried a third monitor, next time I will. What would happen if I just used the PCI card...

Mr. Gnome: The PCI driven monitor didn't seem to want anything on it whatsoever. No, I haven't done anything with the chipset driver. But here's the thing... It did with the PCI card what it has always done with the AGP card with 2 monitors, only worse. Other than updating that INF file...

Gnome: If this is helpful, actually the number of charts definitely contributes. 3 charts is usually ok, 4 or 5 is pushing it, and more than that is out of the question. One more thing... a few weeks ago I tried to add a second G450(PCI), and here is what happened... I could run a half...

I was just looking over your last post, and your idea is probably the best bet I have of isolating this problem. When I was just running one monitor, I don't think I put up more than two charts at that time, so if there was a problem I wouldn't have noticed it. I could go back and put the...

That might have been my post, because I thought until last night I had an 850 chipset. It's definitely 845, though. You know, originally I tried to add a second nvidia to the original nvidia that came with the machine(IBM). There were serious compatability issues, and I gave up on that and...

Gnome... that sounds like a good idea, but unfortunately I don't have a second hard drive. All my drivers are current, I updated an INF file last night for the 845 chipset, changed some things in the bios(at the recommendation of Matrox tech forum person), etc. When I stated above I did a...

It is usually MBTrading that uses most of the cpu. Here is a curious thing... all it takes to peg cpu usage to 100% sometimes is a flurry of volume, i.e. time and sales activity. This can't be right. But I've spent a fair amount of time talking to people at MBTrading, and they've never had...

Could you be more specific? I've used different versions of MBTrading's software, also different versions of DTNiq's software. I have been told sometimes something will be running in the background that is hard to locate. But I've done a complete system restore, tons of other thing to try to...

I am using XP home, 896 Mb ram. Software providers are MBTrading for trades, DTNIQ for quotes.

I've been trying to figure out a problem with excessive cpu usage with my P4, with 2 monitors. I'd like to ask all similar users a question... How much cpu usage do you typically see(30%, 50%, etc.) when bringing up 6, 8 or more charts on two or three monitors? Is response time slowed...

I wasn't paying attention... this sounded too good to be true. What's a calendar spread?

Thanks for the post. I'm not quite sure why this topic generates such heated discussion, but in my book this is excellent news. You will be able to test the market(for eminis) for less than $10/contract with market orders, as opposed to about $20 before. Alan