Good day all, and thnks in advance.

My HDD will cycle every few seconds and this causes the computer to pause momentarily. I have looked at all the setting in the "power managment" area and all seemsd to be fine. I clean my comp with ad aware and registry mechanic daily or bi-daily.
Any tips?

Woodshew

how much RAM have you got? programmes may be using the hard drive as virtual memory

Originally Posted by brain_damage

how much RAM have you got? programmes may be using the hard drive as virtual memory

Hi Brian,

256 MB DDR ram

woodshew

have you got a seperate graphics card?

256MB is not a lot of RAM

Is the indexing enabled? It would be a good idea to run the diagnostic tools on the HD to see if theres any impending danger. Also have you defragmented? Its possible that the paging file is being accessed a lot. It wud be gud to back up in case of doubt.

Originally Posted by brain_damage

have you got a seperate graphics card?

256MB is not a lot of RAM

Acer laptop onboard video.
Hugh

have you got a lot of programmes running?

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