On my home PC, I got a funny little problem, every so often it seems to momenterily lock up (mouse pointer freezes) for a split second then I hear a little click from what I think is hard drive, then its fine. Only seems to happen when I'm online, although I haven't been playing games lately or doing much else with it too really check if it affects everything.

Is it my HDD ready too implode, or is it some vista disk utility type thing or some other crap ???

Any guesses welcome !!!

What anti-virus are you running? I get similar symptoms, which are usually down to S(l)ophos anti-virus systems.

Kaspersky, which now you mention it does seem to have slowed my web browsing down both here in and at home, that said the work pc doesn't do any clicking.

Im running Kaspersky, im not having any problems with mine anyhoo.

Did notice after reinstalling windows that if you were virus scanning and went on a webpage it would stop the virus scanner performing the check.

How many hard drives do you have?

My money will be on the power-saving shutting one of them down.. the lock up is the system waiting for it to spin up again.. the intel ICH9 has a habit of doing this

To change settings go control panel/power options and then drill down to the advanced options of whatever "power plan" you use and disable the hard drive spin-down..

Two hard drives

And yes it's ICH9 chip.

I'll have a look when I get my computer back from the prodigal step-son who has returned from Uni for Easter hols ....................A frikkin month ffs .......Lazy bathplug.

Kaspersky, which now you mention it does seem to have slowed my web browsing down both here in and at home, that said the work pc doesn't do any clicking.

As a bye the bye a friend had just installed 'paid for Kaspersky' and it was crippling his system. Uninstalled it and installed Avast! Pro and system ran much faster. At times the CPU usage with Kaspersky whilst just browsing was around 40%.

How old and which brand of HD you got mate?

p.s, I liked the edit and reason yesterday in the lowered Superb thread

Whatever solution you go for back up everything that is important now before you do anything.

Could be the HD on it's way out.

Another option is the PSU, which when they start to go can suffer as the HDD spins up.

That usually knocks the PC over though.

As already said, back up and soon.

Im running Kaspersky, im not having any problems with mine anyhoo.

Did notice after reinstalling windows that if you were virus scanning and went on a webpage it would stop the virus scanner performing the check.

It has slowed the web slightly due it checking sites I think, but I don't think it's Kaspersky as the work comp doesn't suffer the click.

How old and which brand of HD you got mate?

p.s, I liked the edit and reason yesterday in the lowered Superb thread

Samsung F1 about 3 months old (glad you liked the edit;))

Another option is the PSU, which when they start to go can suffer as the HDD spins up.

That usually knocks the PC over though.

As already said, back up and soon.

I don't think it's the PSU as you say everything else would tumble

How many hard drives do you have?

My money will be on the power-saving shutting one of them down.. the lock up is the system waiting for it to spin up again.. the intel ICH9 has a habit of doing this

To change settings go control panel/power options and then drill down to the advanced options of whatever "power plan" you use and disable the hard drive spin-down..

I had a mooch about in the power settings, but it still does it, I did notice I have no Intel matrix program in the progream list, I belive that has some diag stuff which I could use so thats my next task for tonight. As the click is still happening.:(

Samsung F1 should be ok, I've a few Sammy drives and they all seem to behave.

I've experienced the problem before, it was a while ago and I've forgotten exactly what it was, although I have a suspicion it had something to do with the keyboard/mouse software, which I think was wireless, as someone else said if everything gets put into a low power state and is then called upon the chances are is that the click is just the drive spinning back up, if you do have key/mouse software installed try deleting it and just use Windows drivers on it for now and see if anything changes.

Almost certainly Hdd spinning back up after having powered itself down (especially if you are running Vista, it's quite aggressive in it's energy saving by default).

Just too update on this lol

It's still working Colin, I hate too say but you were right

Just too update on this lol

It's still working Colin, I hate too say but you were right

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