My Harddisk Is Working All The Time - Even if i have lots of free ram and cpu

dymondgurl

Oct 7 2005, 06:25 AM

Has anyone thought of the possibility that there is something wrong with the hard drive? I have had that problem with a few computers with old harddrives. When the harddrive is about ready to die the ide light stays red and every now and then you hear some clicking from the hard drive. Is there any noises coming from the hard drive? If you can get your hands on a small hard drive try to use that hard drive and atempt to instal windows on it but dont finish. see if that hard drive hangs also.

Rubyducky

Oct 7 2005, 06:29 AM

You don't have any extra programs running, did you run virus check? Cause if it's someone using your computer to spread viruses, do DoS attacks, etc, then it would slow your computer down quite a lot.

will_fire

Oct 7 2005, 12:50 PM

Ohhhh ooops I actually forgot to tell you that.... But now you know it anyway

niloc

Oct 8 2005, 08:46 AM

I had a similar problem where my hdd was being accessed all the time and programs where slow to load.

On boot up i sometimes wanted to do a disk check.

I tried defragging .. no good
I checked processes running and performance ... all ok
I did a full virus scan ... all ok
I did a system restore ... no good

In the end i formatted and re-installed XP and all is now ok.

phoenixhosting

Oct 8 2005, 11:29 AM

QUOTE(Amezis @ Sep 17 2005, 06:49 PM)

Well, my harddisk is working and working and working, and everything is really slow.
All the time, I hear the computer working in the background. I've tried to restart the computer twice, but it doesn't fix it...

I think the harddisk is working instead of the RAM, but I have no clue why...

Anyone knows who to fix it?

By the way, when I was about to click the submit button, firefox stopped responding, and I had to wait 15 secs. (and then I wrote this paragraph)

what you do is press ctrl alt del to get up task manager and stop some prosses that are not vital for your machine to run
failing that you might need to get a bigger ram upgrade

phoenixhosting

Oct 8 2005, 11:32 AM

QUOTE(phoenixhosting @ Oct 8 2005, 11:29 AM)

what you do is press ctrl alt del to get up task manager and stop some prosses that are not vital for your machine to run
failing that you might need to get a bigger ram upgrade

you mighty need to get a bigger hard drive

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