Intense Hard Disk Access For 3mins?
Apr 15, 2011
I have this problem that I've been trying to diagnose for a month or so. It's proving difficult. The problem has been happing since around February this year.The computer build is over 1 year old.Every few hours, I get constant disk access for approximately 3 mins. I don't have a virus, it doesn't match a schedule & I don't have much hair left. During the disk access (the pc disk light is on constantly), I can move the mouse, but nothing responds to a disk read/write for several minutes. The clock still runs & the CPU % is very low.I assumed it was the hard drive & bought Spinrite as a last test as the drive had passed chkdsk constantly. Spinrite found no problem at all, not a single fault despite running it for about 12 hours on a maintenance run.
Here's an idea of the erratic schedule:Day 1 freeze 16:00, 19.37Day 2 freeze 09:12, 15:11Day 3 freeze 10:16, 12:06, 13:30Day 4 freeze 11:14, 13.08, 14.24I try running resource monitor with the disk page up, but am finding it hard to diagnose the problem from it. Anything that shows up in disk monitor, I disable & try another test for a day. have disabled (one at a time):Prevx, Acronis backup, desktop gadgets, search indexing, Skype, Google update.I have installed the latest nic & graphics drivers. I have the latest chipset drivers & BIOS.Full virus scans with Prevx, Malwarebytes. No malware symptoms[CODE]
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