Fans and CPU running very high Windows 10 Build 1903

Anonymous
2019-07-04T15:28:32+00:00

I upgraded to windows 10 version 1903 a few weeks ago.  Shortly afterwards I noticed that my fans were running extremely fast and my CPU temps per core were running in the mid 50s C at system idle.  Previously they were running in the mid to high 30s C.  Task Manager shows my CPU usage at 100%.  I get things back to normal if I disable the Power service, but as soon as I enable it again, my fans begin to race and the temps go up.  My system uses an ASRock motherboard with an Intel i7-8700k and an 8500 watt power supply.  I use the Balanced power setting profile.  Diagnostics for Power doesn't pick up anything and I can't find anything with Google for anyone with a similar problem.  I had a similar issue a couple of years back, but it was caused by me using the High Performance power profile.  Once I changed to the Balanced profile the problem disappeared.  This time, the problem is occurring with the Balanced power setting.  Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be appreciated.

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-08-29T07:26:46+00:00

    After disabling Cortana, I confirm that I have a noticeable decrease in the CPU usage and CPU works 5 °C cooler. However, it can still be better than what it is now. I don't believe that Cortana is so much inefficient in resource usage.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-08-27T16:38:52+00:00

    JtoThomas, This is off-topic, but I rely on multiple drives also.  I have a 500GB Samsung SSD boot drive and 4 1TB WD data drives in a RAID 10 configuration as well as 1TB and 3TB internal drives and a 4 TB external drive all for backup.  I also have an Intel Optane 32GB drive configured as a work drive.

    When I speak or chat with a Microsoft tech, I don't bother asking what level they are.  All I want to know is can they help me.  If they state they will escalate my issue, I speak with the next contact.  I am hoping to see a fix from Microsoft soon.  My opinion is that there are too many users suffering from this problem for them to ignore it.  This is a basic Windows 10 operational issue we are dealing with.

    Agreed 100% with you - hopefully they will have this resolved quickly as like you said there are many that are having issues and many that cannot even upgrade to 1903 without doing a complete install. - I like your setup with drives - for me I have 3 internal and 1 external all SSD's

    thanks again for the fast reply :)

    JtoThomas

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-08-27T15:06:30+00:00

    my question is stupid,m but how i can tell the level of the ms operator? I think that most of the ones i talked to were sub zero, one did not know what v.core was, she told me to have my pc looked by someone keen on tech because for her the problem was me not understanding anything... interesting right?

    Hey there - from what I have understood there are 5 levels of MS techs - 1-3 will talk to you over the phone and if your very luck - (winning the lottery) you might get a level 4.  The normally will not tell you unless asked.  I have dealt with level 1's that had as much knowledge as a level 3 and you are right Microsoft needs to understand and maybe they do there are many of us that hmm let's see might know a thing or too.  When someone tells me to take it to like Best Buy and have one of there techs look at your computer I just laugh as most of the time they do nothing and say your hard drive went bad - pretty rare I for what ever reason have never had a hard drive just go bad all of a sudden :)

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-08-27T13:16:36+00:00

    As Alex_D00 stated, Microsoft won't do anything anytime soon unless every user who has this issue make a sound. As long as Microsoft think the number of users having this issue is small, they won't put themselves in trouble.

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-08-27T13:05:18+00:00

    JtoThomas, This is off-topic, but I rely on multiple drives also.  I have a 500GB Samsung SSD boot drive and 4 1TB WD data drives in a RAID 10 configuration as well as 1TB and 3TB internal drives and a 4 TB external drive all for backup.  I also have an Intel Optane 32GB drive configured as a work drive.

    When I speak or chat with a Microsoft tech, I don't bother asking what level they are.  All I want to know is can they help me.  If they state they will escalate my issue, I speak with the next contact.  I am hoping to see a fix from Microsoft soon.  My opinion is that there are too many users suffering from this problem for them to ignore it.  This is a basic Windows 10 operational issue we are dealing with.

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