Agent24 Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 After trying to get Zephyroth's Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.1 for AMD working, I gave up and tried the Leopard-10 5 2-AMD-EFI-Rev2 instead which installed fine and actually booted this time! Everything appeared to be working, so I left the PC on and went to watch TV... when I came back it had gone to sleep/standby (I know this because the LED on my card reader stays on in standby) When I hit the power button the PC came back on, but I didn't get a signal to the monitor. I figured then that the sleep mode didn't work well with my hardware so I hit the reset button. Bootup seemed very slow compared to the previous time, and when I got into OSX everything was very laggy and horrible. After finally finding the OSX equivalent of Taskmanager I found I was running about 100% CPU usage constantly. The main culprit for this was a process called "Kernel_****" (Can't remember what the **** was right now but I'll check one I get off windows XP (though most of you will probably know which one I'm talking about already!) Obviously there must be some kind of sub-process or something causing this problem - but I don't know how to find out what it is (or indeed how to fix it if I did find out!) I did try safe boot (-x) and CPU usage was normal. So it must be something that loads normally my hardware is: MSI K8N SLI-FI (nForce 4, Socket 939, BIOS 1.8, MS-7185 v1.0) AMD 64 3700+ (Single core, 2.2ghz) 1GB RAM (2x512 Dual Channel DDR400) Hard drive: 40GB Seagate ST340014A (IDE) DVD Drive: Asus DRW-1608P3S (IDE) nVidia Geforce 8600GT (256MB, PCI-E, Gigabyte) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113346-100-cpu-usage-but-no-problem-with-safe-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snerler Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 I had that problem when i installed Kalyway 10.5.2 but I tried installing Leo4allv2 which fixed that issue. Im pretty sure there is a simple solution to this somewhere i just dont know where right now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113346-100-cpu-usage-but-no-problem-with-safe-boot/#findComment-803683 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 I'm not saying its a common problem but search for something around bluetooth, if you have one, I had this 100% issue with a bluetooth kext on one of the distros and there was a fix for it somewhere on the forum! If you don't have Bluetooth, then sorry but it must be something else!? SticMAN Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113346-100-cpu-usage-but-no-problem-with-safe-boot/#findComment-803707 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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