About a month ago, I built a computer with the components from bit-tech "affordable all-rounder" category from the month of January. I overclocked the AMD 250 from 3 Ghz to 3.6, and everything was working wonderfully. However, a week ago, an unusual problem started popping up. The hard drive would start spinning vigorously freezing the computer for a few seconds. After which the computer goes back to normal. I disabled indexing, and cleaned the registry and removed all traces of uninstalled programs. I defragmeneted the new HDD as well, to no avail. I run Windows 7 Home Edition 64 bit. I do not have that many programs installed, and the computer generally boots within less than a minute. Any ideas?
4 HDDs, a Western Digital 320 GB (blue something, OS installed on it), 3 Maxtor 512 GB. Rest of the system is: X2 250 Athlon II MSI 770-C45 Asus Geforce 250 4 GB 1600 DDR3
Sounds like hard disk thrashing. Could be a variety of problems causing it. Plug in each hd seperately and find out which hd is running overtime.
