hard drive acting up?

[jlin453]

When I turn on the computer, right before the windows graphics appears, there is a bit of a lag(that wasn't tehre before).

I can hear the harddrive. It's like it's trying to start up,then stops. Starts up, then stops. After a couple of seconds, windows loads up like usual. What causes this little delay?


My KT333 Soyo mb doesn't have the 1/5 divider, but my fsb's aren't high enough(150) where it should be bothering my other hardware.

Btw, the hdd is brand new. I know this has nothing to do w/the problem, but think i'm going to add one of those hard drive coolers(even if the hdd temps aren't that high)..

 

[beezee]

have you been overclocking lately? It could very well be corrupt files within the MBR? So the delay wasn't there before? Or was it there before but now it's longer?

 

[jlin453]

my fsb's never went higher than 154. Yes, this only happened lately.

 

[stool]

In the Storage Forum, the Hard Drive Diagnostics sticky contains a link to "Seatools", Seagate's diagnostic software. DL and run it to see if the HD has a problem.

 

[jlin453]

In the Storage Forum, the Hard Drive Diagnostics sticky contains a link to "Seatools", Seagate's diagnostic software. DL and run it to see if the HD has a problem.

Thanks.

I ran the online browser and it found no errors. I tried running the .exe and saving it to a floppy disk, but when I rebooted, the disk couldn't be read.

 

[ninthebin]

I find that whenever I install XP that that little loading bar does fly through until about 3-4 boots later when I have started reinstallign alot more stuff....then it seems to lag abit...maybe its building its registry structure or something - so its taking a little bit longer to start due to more being on, but I generally dont think it a problem

 

[nut581]

i had the same problem when I overclocked my DDR-RAM a bit high (Mushkin PC2700 revised on MSI KT3 Ultra). The drive was Maxtor diamondmax 27.6GB 5400 rpm.

Try lowering your mem setting a bit, it worked for me