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by jcolome

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I recently installed win2000 on one of my computers and I've noticed that the hard drive is working too much. Even when the computer is idle for long perios of time I notice that the HD keeps chucking away like it's doing some serious crunching. Ihave 512 ram and the comp is a PIII.

Any ideas what could be causing this to happen?

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated :-)

Thanks,

J. Colome

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by ghstinshll

Use Performance Monitor to monitor...

Processor Object:
% Processor Time

PhysicalDisk:
% Disk Time
Disk Reads/sec
Disk Writes/sec

Memory:
Pages per second

Run and record this over a week and then analyze it. This should give youan idea of what's wrong... I bet you have a bad memory chip and the system is paging most of the data being used...

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