sonicmat

Hi, recently my hard drive has started getiing accessed like every 10 seconds. Its not much of a problem in windows but when playing css i get jerks everytime the hard drive is accessed and its quite unplayable.

What could be the problem.

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Nasgul

Some virus or you may have an open file sharing program installed.

Or bad cluster which can be fix by running windows EROR-CHECKING tool and highlight both boxes to run a full scan.

Slickbud

open task manager and see which program is using the cpu processes, thats 1 way to find out. also maybe u have alot of processes on it that ur ram cant keep up. I say get more RAM

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sonicmat

ive tried everything and its still doing it. Its never done it before so i dont think its the ram. I only reinstalled windows a few days ago so theres not much crap on it.

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How many proccesses do you have running?

sonicmat

22 at the moment. Which ones can i close down?

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Slickbud

Ok now which ones are using CPU? see attach
Im sure if ur HD is being access then some program/apps is cousing it SO first thing i would do is find out which one.
Also...have u activated windows yet?

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sonicmat

yeh i have registered and non of my processes are using cpu. But ive remembered its been doing it ever since i installed the via 4 in 1 drivers because i need them for my agp to work with my radeon for some reason. How can i get rid if the 4 in 1 and just install my agp drivers because i cant find an uninstall option

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briank

After installing windows, did you put it on the internet before installing virus software and the latest winXP service pack?

You really can get a virus within minutes of putting you computer on the internet if you are not protected.

Or it could just be windows running self defrag in the background. Try running disk defragmenter on all your hard drives and see if windows stops with the hard disk activity.

sonicmat

no i didnt install any anti virus software and i stil havnt got any on. Ive got a copy of norton 2006. I dont really go on any dogy websites with viruses tho.

Would it be worth installing norton and doing a scan?

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