Win 95 and Hard drive.. need some quick help!

[CoolTechie]

Well I just setup my friends old 486 dx2 66 with win 95.. the controller card isnt even on the board, its an isa card. Well, everything works fine in DOS, but when i load windows 95, the hard drive does a seek every 2 or 3 seconds.. constantly even when idle .. I need to fix this asap.. im using 2 old maxtor drives and I've tried each of them seperately and they both do it.. ANY IDEAS?????

 

[CoolTechie]

???

 

[DaddyG]

You have to check all the background apps. Somethings doing it.

 

[CoolTechie]

i havent installed anything yet except for win 95 ... i just booted into safe mode and the problem istn there... WTF.. but back into normal it is

 

[Fardringle]

How much RAM does the computer have? If it only a small amount (Under 16MB) then it may be that the OS is just writing to the swap file...Yes, I have noticed this happen, even when idle, and it drives me crazy, too.. :disgust:

The controller being an ISA card, it may also be possible that the card itself is causing the periodic writes..

 

[CoolTechie]

yeah it has 60 mb ram

i dont know what else to try... simce in safe mode it works fine.. but yet in normal mode.. seek pasue seek pause seek pause.. over and over,,, help

 

[CoolTechie]

woohoo fixed it... disabled all com ports and unknown devices... shhhaaaaweeet