Friend of mine formatted his computer recently. He can play video games and everything fine, but watching videos makes his cpu jump to 100% load. If hes on say, youtube, no problem. I have tried different drivers (old, new, custom, etc), different directX releases, 8 different video players including WMP, Winamp, VLC, and i have ran spyware scans and virus scans from several different programs.
Tried with and without SP2, etc, and i cant isolate the issue. It worked perfectly prior to the format. Nothing has changed....Any ideas?