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Unusual Hard Disk Activity in Resource Monitor
My computer has been stuttering and freezing for the last several months. I have performed a clean install of Windows twice to no avail. I especially notice this lagging when I type in Microsoft Word or even in this forum post. When my computer doesn't lag, it runs fine. My gut feeling tells me it is a hardware issue as my computer can lag even in BIOS. I also noticed lagging when I first had Windows 7 installed before any updates or any drivers were downloaded. The only issue so far that I have found was that my hard drive temperature was 53 degrees C, which is probably too high but I don't think the main cause of my performance issues. I am 100% convinced I have no malware issues.
Things I have tried:
- Clean install of Windows 7 (I was extremely OCD about getting the right drivers and making sure there were no conflicts)
- MemTest86+ (Pass 6 Errors 0)
- Windows Memory Diagnostic (Pass)
- Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool (All Pass)
- Dell PC Checkup = PC Tools (All Pass)
- Chkdsk (nothing wrong)
- Defragging
- turning off indexing service
- removing all bloatware
At this point, I have been grasping at straws to try to find the problem.
When I looked in resource monitor, the graph for Disk seemed unusual. When my computer lagged, the blue bar would level at 100%. Otherwise, it still spiked up and down constantly. This was when I had no programs open except for a new tab page in Chrome.
My browsing performance is also brutally slow. IE and FF are both incredibly slow and lag horribly, while Chrome lags less but has "Waiting for cache" problems. None of the normal fixes for browser issues have fixed the problem.
Last edited by kyle18; 10 Aug 2012 at 16:52. Reason: aesthetics