CPU utilization won't go above 30%
I have an HP Pavillion 14 laptop. Intel Celeron 1.6GHz 2 core. 2Gb RAM. Windows 10.
It's running really slowly. So slow that its unusable right from the very start. I check the resource monitor and the CPU never goes above 30% utilization or 0.48GHz. It's like its been capped at 30%, it goes below, but never above. I'd have expected it to be working a lot harder than that.
I've tried
- Uninstalling all unnecessary programs (antivirus, various preinstalled HP applications)
- Changing the power plan to maximum power on both battery and plugged in
- Running a system check (by pressing F2 when the computer turns on). Nothing was found.
- Checking for updated processor drivers via Device Manager. None found.
Any ideas?
windows-10 cpu performance
asked Jan 4 '17 at 8:57
Kevin Brydon
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I have an HP Pavillion 14 laptop. Intel Celeron 1.6GHz 2 core. 2Gb RAM. Windows 10.
It's running really slowly. So slow that its unusable right from the very start. I check the resource monitor and the CPU never goes above 30% utilization or 0.48GHz. It's like its been capped at 30%, it goes below, but never above. I'd have expected it to be working a lot harder than that.
I've tried
- Uninstalling all unnecessary programs (antivirus, various preinstalled HP applications)
- Changing the power plan to maximum power on both battery and plugged in
- Running a system check (by pressing F2 when the computer turns on). Nothing was found.
- Checking for updated processor drivers via Device Manager. None found.
Any ideas?
windows-10 cpu performance
asked Jan 4 '17 at 8:57
Kevin Brydon
2452515
Funny: you say "Uninstalling all unnecessary programs" and the first place takes antivirus :)
– duDE
Jan 4 '17 at 9:57
@duDE Anti-virus software is not necessary for a computer to run. It was TalkTalk SuperSafeBoost (a rebranded F-Secure I think).
– Kevin Brydon
Jan 4 '17 at 13:28
change power plan to high performance. can the cpu be now be used more?
– magicandre1981
Jan 4 '17 at 16:21
@magicandre1981 I tried that and didn't make a difference (similar to point 2)
– Kevin Brydon
Jan 4 '17 at 16:45
also try to reset the power plan to the default settings. Maybe you or a software changed/corrupted the plan
– magicandre1981
Jan 4 '17 at 16:47
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show 4 more comments
I have an HP Pavillion 14 laptop. Intel Celeron 1.6GHz 2 core. 2Gb RAM. Windows 10.
It's running really slowly. So slow that its unusable right from the very start. I check the resource monitor and the CPU never goes above 30% utilization or 0.48GHz. It's like its been capped at 30%, it goes below, but never above. I'd have expected it to be working a lot harder than that.
I've tried
- Uninstalling all unnecessary programs (antivirus, various preinstalled HP applications)
- Changing the power plan to maximum power on both battery and plugged in
- Running a system check (by pressing F2 when the computer turns on). Nothing was found.
- Checking for updated processor drivers via Device Manager. None found.
Any ideas?
windows-10 cpu performance
asked Jan 4 '17 at 8:57
Kevin Brydon
2452515
I have an HP Pavillion 14 laptop. Intel Celeron 1.6GHz 2 core. 2Gb RAM. Windows 10.
It's running really slowly. So slow that its unusable right from the very start. I check the resource monitor and the CPU never goes above 30% utilization or 0.48GHz. It's like its been capped at 30%, it goes below, but never above. I'd have expected it to be working a lot harder than that.
I've tried
- Uninstalling all unnecessary programs (antivirus, various preinstalled HP applications)
- Changing the power plan to maximum power on both battery and plugged in
- Running a system check (by pressing F2 when the computer turns on). Nothing was found.
- Checking for updated processor drivers via Device Manager. None found.
Any ideas?
windows-10 cpu performance
windows-10 cpu performance
asked Jan 4 '17 at 8:57
Kevin Brydon
2452515
asked Jan 4 '17 at 8:57
Kevin Brydon
2452515
asked Jan 4 '17 at 8:57
Kevin Brydon
2452515
asked Jan 4 '17 at 8:57
Kevin Brydon
2452515
asked Jan 4 '17 at 8:57
Kevin Brydon
2452515
2452515
Funny: you say "Uninstalling all unnecessary programs" and the first place takes antivirus :)
– duDE
Jan 4 '17 at 9:57
@duDE Anti-virus software is not necessary for a computer to run. It was TalkTalk SuperSafeBoost (a rebranded F-Secure I think).
– Kevin Brydon
Jan 4 '17 at 13:28
change power plan to high performance. can the cpu be now be used more?
– magicandre1981
Jan 4 '17 at 16:21
@magicandre1981 I tried that and didn't make a difference (similar to point 2)
– Kevin Brydon
Jan 4 '17 at 16:45
also try to reset the power plan to the default settings. Maybe you or a software changed/corrupted the plan
– magicandre1981
Jan 4 '17 at 16:47
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show 4 more comments
Funny: you say "Uninstalling all unnecessary programs" and the first place takes antivirus :)
– duDE
Jan 4 '17 at 9:57
@duDE Anti-virus software is not necessary for a computer to run. It was TalkTalk SuperSafeBoost (a rebranded F-Secure I think).
– Kevin Brydon
Jan 4 '17 at 13:28
change power plan to high performance. can the cpu be now be used more?
– magicandre1981
Jan 4 '17 at 16:21
@magicandre1981 I tried that and didn't make a difference (similar to point 2)
– Kevin Brydon
Jan 4 '17 at 16:45
also try to reset the power plan to the default settings. Maybe you or a software changed/corrupted the plan
– magicandre1981
Jan 4 '17 at 16:47
Funny: you say "Uninstalling all unnecessary programs" and the first place takes antivirus :)
– duDE
Jan 4 '17 at 9:57
Funny: you say "Uninstalling all unnecessary programs" and the first place takes antivirus :)
– duDE
Jan 4 '17 at 9:57
@duDE Anti-virus software is not necessary for a computer to run. It was TalkTalk SuperSafeBoost (a rebranded F-Secure I think).
– Kevin Brydon
Jan 4 '17 at 13:28
@duDE Anti-virus software is not necessary for a computer to run. It was TalkTalk SuperSafeBoost (a rebranded F-Secure I think).
– Kevin Brydon
Jan 4 '17 at 13:28
change power plan to high performance. can the cpu be now be used more?
– magicandre1981
Jan 4 '17 at 16:21
change power plan to high performance. can the cpu be now be used more?
– magicandre1981
Jan 4 '17 at 16:21
@magicandre1981 I tried that and didn't make a difference (similar to point 2)
– Kevin Brydon
Jan 4 '17 at 16:45
@magicandre1981 I tried that and didn't make a difference (similar to point 2)
– Kevin Brydon
Jan 4 '17 at 16:45
also try to reset the power plan to the default settings. Maybe you or a software changed/corrupted the plan
– magicandre1981
Jan 4 '17 at 16:47
also try to reset the power plan to the default settings. Maybe you or a software changed/corrupted the plan
– magicandre1981
Jan 4 '17 at 16:47
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It could be that your computer is under-clocking - specifically it may have a problem with heat build up. Have you attempted to clean the air intake fan ? Is the fan spinning ?
Its also possible that the computer is bottlenecked (low memory, slow drive?) and thus is spending a lot of time waiting on IO so the CPU is down-clocked. In that case, you would want to remove the IO bottleneck. You may want to download specific software designed to max out the CPU but use little other resources to test this - Software like "Prime95" would help here - you need to ensure the number of threads you run it on is at least equal to the number of CPU cores you have.
answered Apr 12 '17 at 23:10
davidgo
42.1k75086
Along these lines, I would suggest installing a stress program like Prime95 to make the CPU work as hard as it can. Second, I would install Speccy or another program that reports the CPU temp on a graph. It may be that your CPU is overheating and throttling itself down.
– Christopher Hostage
Apr 12 '17 at 23:35
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I had exactly the same problem at a client today with a Windows 10, Dell Celeron Laptop.
The machine took almost 30 minutes to open Outlook and was terribly slow in general.
The CPU ran at 30% maximum utilization, at 0.48Ghz PERMANENTLY, every day.
I noticed at the right bottom of the screen that although the laptop was plugged into power, the battery icon said "not charging" and battery level was 1%.
To resolve it, I did the following (perhaps this could work for you too):
- Double-click the battery icon (not right-click) at the right-bottom of the screen (in the tray)
- Click "Battery Settings"
- Untick the option for: "Turn battery saver on automatically if my battery falls below..."
- Disable the setting: "Battery saver status until next recharge"
- Unplug the charging cable and re-plug it into the charging port of the laptop.
The battery icon at the right bottom of the screen should now change to "Charging".
After this the CPU started running at 100%, 2.48Ghz and the machine worked well again.
For good measure, click on the battery icon again and set the power mode to "Best Performance"
Note: I noticed that all the battery settings for "Pressing the Power Button", "Pressing the Sleep button" and "Closing the lid" were set to SLEEP. So I guess that every day when the client went home, he closed the lid and put it in his laptop bag. This totally drained the battery, and because the setting was enabled to use Battery Saving when power dips below 20%, every morning the laptop would be SUPER slow.
Whether the Battery Saver setting disabled the battery from charging I can't say for sure.
To avoid the problem for this client, I changed most settings to "Shutdown" and some to "Hibernate"
answered Dec 12 at 17:09
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It could be that your computer is under-clocking - specifically it may have a problem with heat build up. Have you attempted to clean the air intake fan ? Is the fan spinning ?
Its also possible that the computer is bottlenecked (low memory, slow drive?) and thus is spending a lot of time waiting on IO so the CPU is down-clocked. In that case, you would want to remove the IO bottleneck. You may want to download specific software designed to max out the CPU but use little other resources to test this - Software like "Prime95" would help here - you need to ensure the number of threads you run it on is at least equal to the number of CPU cores you have.
answered Apr 12 '17 at 23:10
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Along these lines, I would suggest installing a stress program like Prime95 to make the CPU work as hard as it can. Second, I would install Speccy or another program that reports the CPU temp on a graph. It may be that your CPU is overheating and throttling itself down.
– Christopher Hostage
Apr 12 '17 at 23:35
add a comment |
It could be that your computer is under-clocking - specifically it may have a problem with heat build up. Have you attempted to clean the air intake fan ? Is the fan spinning ?
Its also possible that the computer is bottlenecked (low memory, slow drive?) and thus is spending a lot of time waiting on IO so the CPU is down-clocked. In that case, you would want to remove the IO bottleneck. You may want to download specific software designed to max out the CPU but use little other resources to test this - Software like "Prime95" would help here - you need to ensure the number of threads you run it on is at least equal to the number of CPU cores you have.
answered Apr 12 '17 at 23:10
davidgo
42.1k75086
Along these lines, I would suggest installing a stress program like Prime95 to make the CPU work as hard as it can. Second, I would install Speccy or another program that reports the CPU temp on a graph. It may be that your CPU is overheating and throttling itself down.
– Christopher Hostage
Apr 12 '17 at 23:35
add a comment |
It could be that your computer is under-clocking - specifically it may have a problem with heat build up. Have you attempted to clean the air intake fan ? Is the fan spinning ?
Its also possible that the computer is bottlenecked (low memory, slow drive?) and thus is spending a lot of time waiting on IO so the CPU is down-clocked. In that case, you would want to remove the IO bottleneck. You may want to download specific software designed to max out the CPU but use little other resources to test this - Software like "Prime95" would help here - you need to ensure the number of threads you run it on is at least equal to the number of CPU cores you have.
answered Apr 12 '17 at 23:10
davidgo
42.1k75086
It could be that your computer is under-clocking - specifically it may have a problem with heat build up. Have you attempted to clean the air intake fan ? Is the fan spinning ?
Its also possible that the computer is bottlenecked (low memory, slow drive?) and thus is spending a lot of time waiting on IO so the CPU is down-clocked. In that case, you would want to remove the IO bottleneck. You may want to download specific software designed to max out the CPU but use little other resources to test this - Software like "Prime95" would help here - you need to ensure the number of threads you run it on is at least equal to the number of CPU cores you have.
answered Apr 12 '17 at 23:10
davidgo
42.1k75086
answered Apr 12 '17 at 23:10
davidgo
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answered Apr 12 '17 at 23:10
davidgo
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answered Apr 12 '17 at 23:10
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42.1k75086
Along these lines, I would suggest installing a stress program like Prime95 to make the CPU work as hard as it can. Second, I would install Speccy or another program that reports the CPU temp on a graph. It may be that your CPU is overheating and throttling itself down.
– Christopher Hostage
Apr 12 '17 at 23:35
add a comment |
Along these lines, I would suggest installing a stress program like Prime95 to make the CPU work as hard as it can. Second, I would install Speccy or another program that reports the CPU temp on a graph. It may be that your CPU is overheating and throttling itself down.
– Christopher Hostage
Apr 12 '17 at 23:35
Along these lines, I would suggest installing a stress program like Prime95 to make the CPU work as hard as it can. Second, I would install Speccy or another program that reports the CPU temp on a graph. It may be that your CPU is overheating and throttling itself down.
– Christopher Hostage
Apr 12 '17 at 23:35
Along these lines, I would suggest installing a stress program like Prime95 to make the CPU work as hard as it can. Second, I would install Speccy or another program that reports the CPU temp on a graph. It may be that your CPU is overheating and throttling itself down.
– Christopher Hostage
Apr 12 '17 at 23:35
add a comment |
I had exactly the same problem at a client today with a Windows 10, Dell Celeron Laptop.
The machine took almost 30 minutes to open Outlook and was terribly slow in general.
The CPU ran at 30% maximum utilization, at 0.48Ghz PERMANENTLY, every day.
I noticed at the right bottom of the screen that although the laptop was plugged into power, the battery icon said "not charging" and battery level was 1%.
To resolve it, I did the following (perhaps this could work for you too):
- Double-click the battery icon (not right-click) at the right-bottom of the screen (in the tray)
- Click "Battery Settings"
- Untick the option for: "Turn battery saver on automatically if my battery falls below..."
- Disable the setting: "Battery saver status until next recharge"
- Unplug the charging cable and re-plug it into the charging port of the laptop.
The battery icon at the right bottom of the screen should now change to "Charging".
After this the CPU started running at 100%, 2.48Ghz and the machine worked well again.
For good measure, click on the battery icon again and set the power mode to "Best Performance"
Note: I noticed that all the battery settings for "Pressing the Power Button", "Pressing the Sleep button" and "Closing the lid" were set to SLEEP. So I guess that every day when the client went home, he closed the lid and put it in his laptop bag. This totally drained the battery, and because the setting was enabled to use Battery Saving when power dips below 20%, every morning the laptop would be SUPER slow.
Whether the Battery Saver setting disabled the battery from charging I can't say for sure.
To avoid the problem for this client, I changed most settings to "Shutdown" and some to "Hibernate"
answered Dec 12 at 17:09
dbDesigner
212
add a comment |
I had exactly the same problem at a client today with a Windows 10, Dell Celeron Laptop.
The machine took almost 30 minutes to open Outlook and was terribly slow in general.
The CPU ran at 30% maximum utilization, at 0.48Ghz PERMANENTLY, every day.
I noticed at the right bottom of the screen that although the laptop was plugged into power, the battery icon said "not charging" and battery level was 1%.
To resolve it, I did the following (perhaps this could work for you too):
- Double-click the battery icon (not right-click) at the right-bottom of the screen (in the tray)
- Click "Battery Settings"
- Untick the option for: "Turn battery saver on automatically if my battery falls below..."
- Disable the setting: "Battery saver status until next recharge"
- Unplug the charging cable and re-plug it into the charging port of the laptop.
The battery icon at the right bottom of the screen should now change to "Charging".
After this the CPU started running at 100%, 2.48Ghz and the machine worked well again.
For good measure, click on the battery icon again and set the power mode to "Best Performance"
Note: I noticed that all the battery settings for "Pressing the Power Button", "Pressing the Sleep button" and "Closing the lid" were set to SLEEP. So I guess that every day when the client went home, he closed the lid and put it in his laptop bag. This totally drained the battery, and because the setting was enabled to use Battery Saving when power dips below 20%, every morning the laptop would be SUPER slow.
Whether the Battery Saver setting disabled the battery from charging I can't say for sure.
To avoid the problem for this client, I changed most settings to "Shutdown" and some to "Hibernate"
answered Dec 12 at 17:09
dbDesigner
212
add a comment |
I had exactly the same problem at a client today with a Windows 10, Dell Celeron Laptop.
The machine took almost 30 minutes to open Outlook and was terribly slow in general.
The CPU ran at 30% maximum utilization, at 0.48Ghz PERMANENTLY, every day.
I noticed at the right bottom of the screen that although the laptop was plugged into power, the battery icon said "not charging" and battery level was 1%.
To resolve it, I did the following (perhaps this could work for you too):
- Double-click the battery icon (not right-click) at the right-bottom of the screen (in the tray)
- Click "Battery Settings"
- Untick the option for: "Turn battery saver on automatically if my battery falls below..."
- Disable the setting: "Battery saver status until next recharge"
- Unplug the charging cable and re-plug it into the charging port of the laptop.
The battery icon at the right bottom of the screen should now change to "Charging".
After this the CPU started running at 100%, 2.48Ghz and the machine worked well again.
For good measure, click on the battery icon again and set the power mode to "Best Performance"
Note: I noticed that all the battery settings for "Pressing the Power Button", "Pressing the Sleep button" and "Closing the lid" were set to SLEEP. So I guess that every day when the client went home, he closed the lid and put it in his laptop bag. This totally drained the battery, and because the setting was enabled to use Battery Saving when power dips below 20%, every morning the laptop would be SUPER slow.
Whether the Battery Saver setting disabled the battery from charging I can't say for sure.
To avoid the problem for this client, I changed most settings to "Shutdown" and some to "Hibernate"
answered Dec 12 at 17:09
dbDesigner
212
I had exactly the same problem at a client today with a Windows 10, Dell Celeron Laptop.
The machine took almost 30 minutes to open Outlook and was terribly slow in general.
The CPU ran at 30% maximum utilization, at 0.48Ghz PERMANENTLY, every day.
I noticed at the right bottom of the screen that although the laptop was plugged into power, the battery icon said "not charging" and battery level was 1%.
To resolve it, I did the following (perhaps this could work for you too):
- Double-click the battery icon (not right-click) at the right-bottom of the screen (in the tray)
- Click "Battery Settings"
- Untick the option for: "Turn battery saver on automatically if my battery falls below..."
- Disable the setting: "Battery saver status until next recharge"
- Unplug the charging cable and re-plug it into the charging port of the laptop.
The battery icon at the right bottom of the screen should now change to "Charging".
After this the CPU started running at 100%, 2.48Ghz and the machine worked well again.
For good measure, click on the battery icon again and set the power mode to "Best Performance"
Note: I noticed that all the battery settings for "Pressing the Power Button", "Pressing the Sleep button" and "Closing the lid" were set to SLEEP. So I guess that every day when the client went home, he closed the lid and put it in his laptop bag. This totally drained the battery, and because the setting was enabled to use Battery Saving when power dips below 20%, every morning the laptop would be SUPER slow.
Whether the Battery Saver setting disabled the battery from charging I can't say for sure.
To avoid the problem for this client, I changed most settings to "Shutdown" and some to "Hibernate"
answered Dec 12 at 17:09
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Funny: you say "Uninstalling all unnecessary programs" and the first place takes antivirus :)
– duDE
Jan 4 '17 at 9:57
@duDE Anti-virus software is not necessary for a computer to run. It was TalkTalk SuperSafeBoost (a rebranded F-Secure I think).
– Kevin Brydon
Jan 4 '17 at 13:28
change power plan to high performance. can the cpu be now be used more?
– magicandre1981
Jan 4 '17 at 16:21
@magicandre1981 I tried that and didn't make a difference (similar to point 2)
– Kevin Brydon
Jan 4 '17 at 16:45
also try to reset the power plan to the default settings. Maybe you or a software changed/corrupted the plan
– magicandre1981
Jan 4 '17 at 16:47