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February 2nd, 2024 23:28

Many users reporting parasitic 'System' process after recent update

I am among the 3 people in this thread who are experiencing the 'System' process using one CPU thread at 100% utilization indefinitely. It starts with a seemingly random delay - between 10-300 minutes after powering on the machine, but the process will never end. I've let it run for 3.5 days several times. We've independently identified the problem thread within the 'System' process as ntoskrnl.exe!KeInitializeApc+0x4c0 . We are using Dell Precision 5540, XPS 9520, and  XPS 9500.

Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Might anybody have experience maybe diagnosing XPERF traces? I've reinstalled Windows 11 twice and rolled back all feature and quality updates. The problem always returns. I would appreciate the community's help in this regard.

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May 2nd, 2024 12:43

Glad to report that after spending hours troubleshooting, this has resolved my issue. I simply reverted back to Dell's NVIDIA driver 31.0.15.3209, A13 from August of 23 and the fans have stopped and CPU is back down under 10% as normal.

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