Over working HDD

**Wonka** · 13-02-2005, 10:34 AM

HDD always sounds busy even when machine idles! Is it the memory which is crap? is it trying to compensate?

Old sytem, K7N2G MOBO, Athlon XP, Audigy2, Creative 5.1, Maxtor 80GB, Crucial Memory -mb

**Nick** · 13-02-2005, 11:51 AM

Moved by me, helpful bods will have a better chance of seeing it in here!

**Rcb** · 13-02-2005, 01:56 PM

Tried defragging it? Getting rid of spyware?

**Norky** · 13-02-2005, 02:00 PM

Got any AV software?

**silent ben** · 13-02-2005, 02:01 PM

Spyware? virii? trojans?

If not, do you have any defrag software installed that may have a "defrag when idle" option?

Ben

**Nick** · 13-02-2005, 02:19 PM

What about virtual memory? Is that set too high?

**m0dm0** · 19-02-2005, 03:08 PM

Could it be one of those Desktop Search programs, like the Google one, or maybe XP's indexing service?

m0.

**Paolini** · 06-03-2005, 06:32 PM

Wonka got sorted !!

**johnnr892** · 06-03-2005, 08:27 PM

What was it?

**Paolini** · 08-03-2005, 05:40 PM

Originally Posted by johnnr892

What was it?

Dunno? he didnt say

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