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System and System Interrupts- high cpu utilization

Hi,
I have got a problem with my recent windows 8.1 installation.
Immediatly after instalation two tasks has high CPU usage: "System interrupts" and "System".


I've installed Windows on macs many times and it is the first time i have this problem.

I've tried updating Windows, updating drivers, reinstalling a whole bootcamp package from Apple website- it doesn't work.

Same thing occured on Windows 7.


Maybe it is important that I've used developer preview of Yosemite (which updates EFI), and then I've reinstalled Mac to Mavericks.
Hardware: Macbook Pro Retina 13" Late 2013 / i5 / 8G



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MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), Windows 8, 8.1 update 1

Posted on Oct 15, 2014 6:32 AM

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Jan 15, 2015 10:14 PM in response to sg][

I tried the Beta fix and here's what I found: the System/System Interrupts is fixed, but occasionally (a third of the time), BootCamp.exe will run at 30% when I start Windows. It doesn't slow down after 5 min or so, but if I exit Bootcamp and restart it, its OK again (0-1%).


Also it seems like the processor speed drops down to 800Mz quite a bit... saving battery power perhaps?

Jan 16, 2015 1:09 AM in response to MCSHIZ

Does 10.10.2 beta2 offer any updates for the Boot Camp drivers? I guess you'd have to run the Boot Camp Assistant on beta2 to download and save the Windows Support Software in order to determine if it is any newer than what is shipped right now - 5.1.5640 IIRC.


A driver and Boot Camp Control panel update will be really neat at this point and is the last step in making the Air a great Windows 8.1 laptop.

Jan 16, 2015 3:10 AM in response to parry_pb

I'd recommend everyone who hasn't access to the latest OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 Beta update to be sure they limit the CPU utilization ASAP upon startup by going into sleep mode and then resuming. My SSD has just failed after 9 months and needs to be replaced, and I suspect that all that CPU thrashing may have been the cause. I seem to remember someone mentioning that the hard disk is queried via this process in an endless loop, which probably isn't healthy! Luckily I was able to use DiskWarrior to save my data and have plenty of backups to rely on, but the SSD failure was abrupt and without warning.

System and System Interrupts- high cpu utilization

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