BathroomFeeling
Senior member
So last week my system began to get "overloaded" with something to the point where the system becomes unresponsive apart from mouse controls, which was hard to believe as it's kick ass enough to handle average workloads. The harddisk light would be constantly on, as if it was reading/writing something, even though I had no programs running & I couldn't hear any disk activity. No biggie I thought, I looked at the Task Manager with the IO columns activated, as well as the Disk tab in the Resource Manager to see what's up. I couldn't pinpoint anything. Sometimes it was the AV, other times it was Firefox, and yet sometimes it was svchost (LocalServiceNetworkRestricted), etc... taking up *moderate* disk resources. Perplexing. The issue sometimes came up as soon as I cold booted into Windows7, so I made sure I removed almost everything I could from startup. It made no difference. So I booted into Safe Mode, should be just about as clean as one could get right? No, same problem, but not as bad. Another strange symptom was that my LiteOn DVD-RW drive would disappear from the Device Manager, which I thought was weird.
I uninstalled everything I did from the last time I remember my system was stable, Visual C++ & other junk, as well as a few Windows updates. No difference either. When I was just about to format & restore a fresh W7 backup, I thought of the SATA bug thing. My config was simple, harddisk on the SATA6G & DVD on the standard Intel SATA. As I understood it, the bug only affected the latter & not the former, which meant my harddisk was okay. So I switched the connection of my DVD-RW from the standard SATA to SATA6G and... it fixed it! No more busy lights, no more strange disk activity. So I was wondering, would the SATA bug cause this, or is something else the culprit?
PS. I won't be exchanging the mobo.
I uninstalled everything I did from the last time I remember my system was stable, Visual C++ & other junk, as well as a few Windows updates. No difference either. When I was just about to format & restore a fresh W7 backup, I thought of the SATA bug thing. My config was simple, harddisk on the SATA6G & DVD on the standard Intel SATA. As I understood it, the bug only affected the latter & not the former, which meant my harddisk was okay. So I switched the connection of my DVD-RW from the standard SATA to SATA6G and... it fixed it! No more busy lights, no more strange disk activity. So I was wondering, would the SATA bug cause this, or is something else the culprit?
PS. I won't be exchanging the mobo.
