Processor has hickups

[dws]

I have a Thinkpad running Windows 2000, the processor is jumping from 10 percent to 100 percent with nothing running. I have check for virus, spyware and find nothing. Any ideas other than the processor is dying?
dws

[GX1_Man]

When did this start? What other processes are running in Task Manager?  What model and how old? any other problems?

[Flame]

Have you made any changes to your system recently?

Flame

[dws]

A22e is the Thinkpad so it is a couple years old.  x86 family 6, model 8,  step 10  with 130,544 ram

run processes
sys idle
system
smss
winlog
csrss
service
lsass
ibmpmsvc
spoolsv
cisvc
svchost
mstask
winmgmt
svchost
cidaemon
explorer
ltmge
taskmgr
tp4serv
opwareSE2
ottask
ezejmnap
rundll32
monitor
airplus

It seems to settle down after it warms up but that takes a while.
I gave this to my daughter two years ago and bought her a new one last fall and took this back then.  It was to be a back up from my desktop but the operation has made that difficult.

It jumps from Idle to system and 100 % about every 10 seconds when it is cold, then gradually settles down.

dws

[GX1_Man]

I would do ALL of this for starts. Read carefully and let us know what you find.

http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1134123580

[Fed]

If it comes up clean this could be normal loading of windows components & user added extras.
Let us know & we can advise on trimming back your 'services' and other auto-start programs.