Mine use to do that when opening explorer to view hard drive contents.
When I removed my storage drive (WD200GB) off my add on Sil068 controller,
things went back to normal.

"Earl" wrote in message
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When I listen to audio and use IE my CPU utilization goes to 100% and the
audio skips when I scroll. I have a 64 3000 with 512mb ram. I have tried
it with cool n quiet on and off.