CSRSS

[mdc]

Disk Drive running non-stop

I have installed a clean copy of Windows 7, after a full format of the drives. However CSRSS.exe has started doing nonstop I/O reads and I can find no way to stop it. (I know not to touch the exe itself) I shut down everything that may be hitting the hard drive including the virus scan and it continued to read the drive nonstop. Task Manager shows it doing non stop I/O reads and no I/O Writes... Advice?

 

[wallyinnc]

mdc, could this be it: Csrss.exe uses 100% of the CPU When you Right-Click an item in Explorer ?

I would create another profile and test if there is a difference, before starting to delete profiles.

Let us know if it helps

 

[mdc]

Thanks, but no difference.. The C drive is just running like a mad man.. fresh install, no viruses, no dfrag needed? CSRSS just going nuts

 

[mdc]

Helpp... CSRSS still hitting the C drive with I/O reads nonstop and no idea why. I also shut down antivirus, browsers etc and the same issue, non stop disk reads. I worry the C drive will EOL with all this activity?

 

[wallyinnc]

mdc, I see two possibilities:
- csrss is known to be infected by viruses, which disguise as this program. I suggest you run an on demand virus program such as Malwarebytes to check that
- csrss is responsible for running different tasks (reference here), it should not be running by itself. Do you have any background task, such as backup, going on?

 

[mdc]

Thanks for the ideas. Ran the routines and nothing found. I have nothing running in the background. Even shut off the antivirus routines. I am wondering if the it is motherboard to bios to disk issue... something is causing this thing to just read the disk. The noise alone drives yah nuts.