I have a couple of laptops that are mine for the taking if I can figure out why the DPC is running at 100%, even during setup on a fresh windows install on a new HDD.

Any ideas to help a fella out?

My first guess would be lack of memory. How much memory do they have and what OS are you useing? Also, what is DPC?

Eh I also haven't heard this term DPC before. Are you talking about CPU?

Yeah, DPC? :s

edit: oops thought this about a laptop not PC. What OS are you running and what's your CPU specs.

DPC is Deferred Procedure Call:
From Wikipedia-
A Deferred procedure call (DPC) is a Windows operating system mechanism which allows high-priority tasks (e.g. an interrupt handler) to defer required but lower-priority tasks for later execution. This permits device drivers and other low-level event consumers to perform the high-priority part of their processing quickly, and schedule non-critical additional processing for execution at a lower priority.

As it is I've just founf out its the batteries that cause the problem.