CPU Usage at 100% with "Hardware Interrupts"

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Published on 2012-04-08T05:30:01Z Indexed on 2012/04/08 5:34 UTC
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After turning on my desktop one day, I found that my CPU usage was maxed out at 100%, with 99% of that going to hardware "Interrupts". I tried to enable/disable all my devices one by one through the device manager, and found that I could get the CPU usage used by the Interrupts down to 50% by disabling all devices labelled "USB Host Controller" (except the ones for the mouse/keyboard). I found that I also got 10-20% more from disabling "High Definition Audio Controller".

Following the tutorial at: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140263-how-to-get-the-cause-of-high-cpu-usage-by-dpc-interrupt/

Led me to similar conclusions (that is, that the culprit is mostly "USB Host Controller"):

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I've tried updating my asus motherboard driver and my video card driver. This is on Windows 7 64 bit.

I've spent hours trying to figure this out and I'm running out of ideas short of formatting (which might still not fix it!).

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