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System/HD Lag?

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I have this problem w/ my HD, both my new 45gig 75GXP, and my old maxtor 13gig (3x 4.3gig platters). Say i surf the net or have my computer running simple things that don't require heavy HD trashing (IE loaded into memory already), and I suddenly open up something like MS Word, my whole PC lags for a few seconds. Winamp will replay the same second of music over and over for a few seconds, and the pc will just lag. I'm not sure if this happens if I am already using the HD for something, but the lag is quite annoying. Anyone have a solution or explaination for this? Thanks!
 
Could be a lot of stuff. First shot is ensure DMA is enabled for your HDs, scandisk, or chkdsk /f in win2k, and defrag your HDs if they are heavily fragmented. Kill off some backgroud processes and try again.

After that, if you use Win2K, you can bring up a task manager and try to see what the heck process(es) may be causing your "lag". I think you need a 3rd party program to do that in Win9x, perhaps in WinME also.

Edit:

More things: If you happend to have a "bad marginal" CD in your CD drive, some programs will scan the disks (on start up, or otherwise some sort of "open file" dialog box) and hit the drive (you'll hear the drive spin up) and keep waiting for the disk to be initialized. If you have bad disks in the drive, this wait can get quite pronounced.

If you have the drives turn off after some period of inactivity, they also need a few seconds to spin up from standby/sleep modes.
 
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