G'day all!
I have a strange problem with an old system I've picked up from my Brother. May even be the reason he decided to rid himself of the machine.
Basically every so often the hardrive appears to become inactive. The hard drive activity light just flashes constantly for a few minutes. It does not prevent me from accessing Start Menu, or moving windows on the screen, but will cease any activity currently being performed.
For example. I was running spybot and the scan would 'pause' and the hard drive light would flash for a few minutes, then the scan would resume.
This seems to happen randomly. Spybot, Adaware, Hijackthis all found issues, which I've repaired, but this does not seem to resolve the strange hard drive problem.
The problem also seems to occur on boot, as the system will occassionally hang, then resume what it was doing. I can walk away for 10 minutes, come back and Windows will be loaded. Basically this problem is just annoying more than anything else.
I'm hoping the problem will be easy to fix, but as this system is just a backup, not too worried.
I'm not sure of the mobo make or specs.
Generic IDE Disk drive - Type 46 (removable)
Any thoughts on what could be causing this?
I have a strange problem with an old system I've picked up from my Brother. May even be the reason he decided to rid himself of the machine.
Basically every so often the hardrive appears to become inactive. The hard drive activity light just flashes constantly for a few minutes. It does not prevent me from accessing Start Menu, or moving windows on the screen, but will cease any activity currently being performed.
For example. I was running spybot and the scan would 'pause' and the hard drive light would flash for a few minutes, then the scan would resume.
This seems to happen randomly. Spybot, Adaware, Hijackthis all found issues, which I've repaired, but this does not seem to resolve the strange hard drive problem.
The problem also seems to occur on boot, as the system will occassionally hang, then resume what it was doing. I can walk away for 10 minutes, come back and Windows will be loaded. Basically this problem is just annoying more than anything else.
I'm hoping the problem will be easy to fix, but as this system is just a backup, not too worried.
I'm not sure of the mobo make or specs.
Generic IDE Disk drive - Type 46 (removable)
Any thoughts on what could be causing this?