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Old 01-03-2007, 03:57 PM
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My CPU is running near 100% all the time!??
When I look at my iStatpro widget, it shows the CPU is running at around 80-90% with nothing really running.
Its a g5iMac. With 2gigs of ram.
My other two macs don't have the same problem at all.

The weird thing is that in the 'processes' panel it mentions my printer as hogging up a huge amout of CPU load. But its not even on.

Any thoughts as to why my computer seems to be working hard over nothing.

General performace seems ok, but fans are running more.

Cheers

EDIT - its being doing this for the last day or so.
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Old 01-03-2007, 04:08 PM
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Open up the Printer Setup Utility and open your printer and delete any print jobs in there. That's probably what's causing it.
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Old 01-03-2007, 04:13 PM
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got it!!!!

thankyou!

love simple solution.....
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