Sometimes when I boot up my desktop my hard drive goes into a mode of turning on and off. It will go on for about half a second and then off for about half a second over and over again for about 5-8 minutes. I am running W2K on an Asus P3-V4X with a P3-550 and 256MB RAM. This happens maybe once or twice a week.
When I look in the Windows Task Manager I see the System Idle Process fluctuating up and down betwen 99 and 92 in the CPU Usage column. While this is happening, other system functions are slightly slower to respond including applications and the mouse. I shut down the computer normally 99.9% of the time and don't notice a relationship of this annoyance with those rare times that the system is shut down abruptly.
Any suggestions?
When I look in the Windows Task Manager I see the System Idle Process fluctuating up and down betwen 99 and 92 in the CPU Usage column. While this is happening, other system functions are slightly slower to respond including applications and the mouse. I shut down the computer normally 99.9% of the time and don't notice a relationship of this annoyance with those rare times that the system is shut down abruptly.
Any suggestions?