My computer started doing bizarre things lately. The hard drive light is constantly on and the drive is throttled almost always, as if it is loading something big. No programs are active, nothing is out of the usual, I have no sort of indexing going on. Nothing is going on as far as I can tell.
It's even worse when the system is under heavy load. If I play a game, the computer essentially becomes unresponsive, taking 15 minutes to load what used to take 3.
I assumed fragmentation at first, so I defragged the drive. No difference in performance. I then thought that perhaps my SATA cable had become damaged and was not working properly. Ran HD Tach, transfer speeds were normal.
I also have bizarre video issues all of a sudden, but only using Firefox 3, of all programs! Sometimes, tabs overlay - that is, if I click one tab, all the images and video will overlay onto the next tab, etc. The only way to stop this is to shrink the window.
These are bizarre problems I'm not sure about. Temperatures on my video card are normal, low even. My processor is also running low. I have the newest drivers for every component on my machine. I am up to date with windows updates. Hard drives temperatures are nominal. Memory consumption is normal. Page file size usage is normal. CPU is not throttled at all.
Software? Hardware? I'm at a loss here. I've never experienced anything quite like this. I am currently running an extended test for bad sectors on my main drive...will take several hours. Maybe that's it.
Edit: Specs: Q6600, 2GB RAM, 8800GTX 768, 1x320GB (main), 1x250GB, 1x500GB, 1x750GB
It's even worse when the system is under heavy load. If I play a game, the computer essentially becomes unresponsive, taking 15 minutes to load what used to take 3.
I assumed fragmentation at first, so I defragged the drive. No difference in performance. I then thought that perhaps my SATA cable had become damaged and was not working properly. Ran HD Tach, transfer speeds were normal.
I also have bizarre video issues all of a sudden, but only using Firefox 3, of all programs! Sometimes, tabs overlay - that is, if I click one tab, all the images and video will overlay onto the next tab, etc. The only way to stop this is to shrink the window.
These are bizarre problems I'm not sure about. Temperatures on my video card are normal, low even. My processor is also running low. I have the newest drivers for every component on my machine. I am up to date with windows updates. Hard drives temperatures are nominal. Memory consumption is normal. Page file size usage is normal. CPU is not throttled at all.
Software? Hardware? I'm at a loss here. I've never experienced anything quite like this. I am currently running an extended test for bad sectors on my main drive...will take several hours. Maybe that's it.
Edit: Specs: Q6600, 2GB RAM, 8800GTX 768, 1x320GB (main), 1x250GB, 1x500GB, 1x750GB
