CPU crawls while HD gets hit like crazy for no apparent reason at all - Help Please

[gbobb]

I have a homebuilt system:

PIII Coppermine 500 running at 667
Windows 98 SE
128 mb generic 133 RAM
Western Digital 10 gb hard disk
GeForce 2 Video
SB Live
Toshiba 40x CD drive
Mitsumi 4x CD burner

The problem is that at periodic times (every 40 minutes or so it seems), whatever application I am running (UT, Quake, whatever) will start taking severe performance hits(maybe 1 screen every 2 seconds or so). This lasts for about 30 seconds while the hard drive is getting hit hard. I checked to make sure that Windows was handling the disk caching and this was set correctly. I'm not sure what could be causing this situation. If anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear them.

Thanks,

 

[qiu]

lower the AGP aperture size in BIOS

 

[emjem]

Hit Control/Alt/Delete and see what is running in the background. There may be a program running that activates itself every so often -- say, like a screen saver, or an ap that checks the internet for something (maybe email).

 

[Usul]

Disable/delete/crack and destroy all the sheduled task in win, like scandisk .
Also work if you set everyting on the 30 of february, my italian Win98 let me do it

 

[emjem]

Good plan Usul

 

[emjem]

Check this out from another post on AT

Swap File

 

[LevcoS]

If you've installed MS Office, you're most likely running Fast Find- which will roughly every forty minutes to an hour try to build an index of the contents of every file on your hard drive, causing exactly this kind of thrashing. You can uninstall it using the Office installed, but it's much easier to search it out and disable it using the system configuration utility (start - run - type msconfig, hit OK)... If it's installed you'll see it under the Startup tab. Uncheck it, reboot, and you ought to be good to go!

LevcoS

 

[mastertech01]

What Motherboard?