at the end with this Vista Pc----

[Conradl]

Can you please post a screenshot of your task manager/processes?

 

[Creativecontrol]

Thanks, so not good idea for a primary pc, bcs its gonna expire eventually.

Back to Vista for me, maybe XP is the way...

 

[cerebus]

This doesn't really sound like an OS issue. At a guess I'd say there's some corruption in your hard drive perhaps? Have you run a simple disk check? If your data is backed up I'd seriously do a clean format and stick with Vista. If it isn't backed up I'd run out like now to get a spindle of dvd's because if this problem gets worse you could lose everything.

 

[Creativecontrol]

hey Cerebus, i just backed my stuff up to an external, chkdsk best way, or some tools to use? Yeah this Seagate 500gb, is suspect to me, only a yr old though....

 

[cerebus]

Chkdisk is fine. What's the serial of the hard drive? If it's a 7200.11 then it's an immediate suspect.

 

[Creativecontrol]

is there anyway I can see if its a 7200.11 without opening the pc?

 

[cerebus]

everest free edition will tell you - I think cpu-z may have that info as well.

 

[Creativecontrol]

ST3500320AS Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 3Gb/s 500-GB Hard Drive | Seagate, i've got two crashed 7200.9 drives , why would it surprise me? how can people carry on buying this brand?

 

[SlinkyMike]

Any chance that Vista is indexing? I remember having untold hassles with that.
..R0.02

 

[Brawler]

7200.11. Problem found.

 

[Creativecontrol]

I think if memory serves me correctly i switched superfetch off? same thing?

 

[Creativecontrol]

Western Sigital FTW

 

[Creativecontrol]

*Digital

 

[cerebus]

Progress report?