(OT) Computer Problem

I'm looking for a News Group to ask about a problem I'm having that I can't figure out. So first, are there any NGs that you can suggest? My problem is... every so often my HDD led will light up and my computer slows right down to almost a stand still. I don't hear the HDD working at all though. I haven't paid any attention to any kind of sequences that makes this happen but I do know that it happens a lot. Closing Netscape, NS will clean the NGs and email message bodies to save disk space, while this happens about half way through it the HDD led will light up and the cleaning process is halted till after the led turns off. Running GPL online or off line randomly this will happen and the screen will freeze for those two or three second. resulting in warp laps and the like. having the computer sit idle while I eat lunch with no computer activity of any kind this will happen. As I said I have yet to figure out any kind of a sequence that would make this happen. It's as if the HDD park it's self and gets stuck for a few seconds. -- ========================================= Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? ========================================= http://members.xoom.com/BarlowRacing/ Racing online with the help of...... Race Communications Association Holodyne Engineering Mystic Music (have Your !!Name/Address!! placed here)

sounds like you're running out of virtual memory and the delay is Windows playing with the swap file (I'm assuming you're using Windows, if not, it could be something similar for the OS you are using) a very good newsgroup and your best bet is alt.windows98 or alt.windows95 depending on which you use.... if you don't use Windows and your newsgroup browser lets you search for a text string, just type in the operating system you use and it will find one for you...

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> I'm looking for a News Group to ask about a problem I'm having that I >can't figure out. So first, are there any NGs that you can suggest? > My problem is... > every so often my HDD led will light up and my computer slows right >down to almost a stand still. I don't hear the HDD working at all >though. I haven't paid any attention to any kind of sequences that >makes this happen but I do know that it happens a lot.

Sounds like what happenned to a friend's PC. I found that a scandisk would fail at around 90%. His HDD was screwed. I bought him some time by repartitioning the bad area out - his drive was 1Gb and I made two virtual drives (if that's the correct terminology) 800Mb (C:) and 200Mb (D:). I don't know much about the physical aspects of HDDs but we were lucky in that it was only the 'end' of his disk that had a problem. Worked perfectly until he got a replacement. Hope I'm wrong!! Mark Reading, UK

Try alt.computer.workshop Sound like a swap file problem to me, but I'm only guessing. Robert

Before swapping out the HDD or re-formatting or any of that make sure you don't have Office "FastFind" or Corel "Quickfind" or some such thing in your startup group. They periodically scan you system and can cause all kinds of odd behavior. mike miller It's Ok to be going nowhere.... But we should be going nowhere fast.......

DELETE FASTFIND! I went for months trying to figure out why my hard drive would run like crazy for no reason and slow everything down. Everyone told me it was virtual memory, swap files, and other problems but nothing helped. Then I pressed Alt+Ctrl+Delete, End task on several running tasks and when I did it to FastFind the problem stopped. FastFind is a MS office program that will search your hard drive for documents or files so they will be easier to locate when you need them. The search slows everything down. You dont need FastFind so delete it from the Startup folder. Hope this is the problem. Lutrell

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> I'm looking for a News Group to ask about a problem I'm having that I >can't figure out. So first, are there any NGs that you can suggest? > My problem is... > every so often my HDD led will light up and my computer slows right >down to almost a stand still. I don't hear the HDD working at all >though. I haven't paid any attention to any kind of sequences that >makes this happen but I do know that it happens a lot. > Closing Netscape, NS will clean the NGs and email message bodies to >save disk space, while this happens about half way through it the HDD >led will light up and the cleaning process is halted till after the led >turns off. > Running GPL online or off line randomly this will happen and the screen >will freeze for those two or three second. resulting in warp laps and >the like. >having the computer sit idle while I eat lunch with no computer activity >of any kind this will happen. > As I said I have yet to figure out any kind of a sequence that would >make this happen. It's as if the HDD park it's self and gets stuck for >a few seconds. >-- >========================================= >Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? >========================================= >http://members.xoom.com/BarlowRacing/ >Racing online with the help of...... >Race Communications Association >Holodyne Engineering >Mystic Music >(have Your !!Name/Address!! placed here)

>DELETE FASTFIND! I went for months trying to figure out why my hard drive would run like crazy for no reason and slow everything problems but nothing helped. Then I pressed Alt+Ctrl+Delete, End stopped. FastFind is a MS office program that will search when you need them. The search slows everything down. You It also deposits a couple sizable index files in the root of your drive with ff in the name. You can dump those, too and get some disk space back. daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

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>>DELETE FASTFIND! I went for months trying to figure out why my hard drive >would run like crazy for no reason and slow everything >>down. Everyone told me it was virtual memory, swap files, and other >problems but nothing helped. Then I pressed Alt+Ctrl+Delete, End >>task on several running tasks and when I did it to FastFind the problem >stopped. FastFind is a MS office program that will search >>your hard drive for documents or files so they will be easier to locate >when you need them. The search slows everything down. You >>dont need FastFind so delete it from the Startup folder. >>Hope this is the problem. >It also deposits a couple sizable index files in the root of your drive with >ff in the name. You can dump those, too and get some disk space back. >daxe

I was never POSITIVE that those files came from FastFind. They're gone NOW...thanks... Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

>I was never POSITIVE that those files came from FastFind. They're gone >NOW...thanks... I would hardly take my word as confirmation of much of anything in most cases, but in this case I believe myself to be correct. I moved those files to another folder when I saw them because I didn't know what they were. Before long they reappeared. It was only after I disabled Ffind that they stopped regenerating, ergo, they were its by-product and could be 86ed. Glad I could help. ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----