PF Usage has gone sky high?

Question

Ok, I just recently built the system in my sig and all is going well so far...I have an issue trying to access the ht multi's in the BIOS(the system freezes)...Sometimes it doesn't boot into Windows...Nothing major major, the same as the next guy it seems...
This afternoon I tried to install CoreCenter and immediately after installing, the system locked up...After 3 restarts and lock ups just after booting to Windows I decided to go in using safe mode...I uninstalled CoreCenter and the rig booted right up...But now all of a sudden my PF usage is between 450 - 500MB with 22 processes running in the background...Yesterday with the same processes running it was between 120 - 150MB...I don't know what happened but I don't like it...I ran a full system virus scan, Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware...I deleted a few things with Spybot S&D but that was it...Nothing else was detected...I'm stuck here people...The only thing I know is that the programs that are usually running in the background are using 2 - 4 times as much memory as they normally do...Any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

The HT frequency in the Cell menu will cause the system to freeze if you try to access it in the conventional way. You have to just highlight the selection and use the + & - keys on the num pad to select the HT frequency.
As far as the PF usage going up, ahh..I dunno.
Give us a screen shot of the Task Manager.
Go through "msconfig" and see if there is anything in there that shouldn't be.
You may also want to download and run HijackThis and post a log in one of the forums that troubleshoot them.
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showindex.php?t=12516
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/
You could also PM me with the log as well.