its keep making noise as if i am downloading or playing games online
2007-09-27 08:11:08 · 11 answers · asked by ziggey_uk 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
You may have too many programs running.
Whats on your tool bar?
Anything you can turn off?
2007-09-27 08:14:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Modern operating systems are much larger than can fit in RAM and one way they solve this problem is to break it down into what they call pages and swap them in and out between RAM (where they can operate) and the hard disk.
Now when the hard disk has a health junk of free space this is fine and you get the behaviour you are expecting. That is the more you work the more the hard disk works and the more noise you get.
However, when you are running extremely low on disk space the operating system starts to swap pages between RAM and the hard disk at an increased rate just to get the slightest bit of work done. Very often this would be the operating system's own tasks and not neceeeasily you doing something.
I suspect that the reason for your increased hard disk noise is that your hard disk may be getting full. Delete some stuff to create some free space, defrag your hard disk and you should be OK.
2007-09-27 08:21:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi ziggey,this is a common problem and is normally due to the basic wear and tear of your hard drive
what alot of people seem to forget is a hard drive is a mechanical device that spins at 7200 rpm and after a while the platters(disks)on the drive can be come worn and although fine to use, this can make the drive noisy and in some cases whiring and grinding sounds can be heard
i must stress,this is no cause for alarm,most drives make some kind of noise,it dosent mean your hard drives on its way out
some checks to make are 1.check the hard drive is properly fixed and secured to the drive bay,use the recommended 4 screws and screw them hand tight
2.sometimes a disk defragment will make some of the noises dissapear,however it wont completley cure the noises
3.some drives can work using 15 heads as well as 16 heads,the 16 head setting puts more stress on the drive,and in some cases this can create excess noise,change the drives jumper setting to 15 heads,again this wont cure the noise problem completely but it will help
4.theres a setting in bios called "s.m.a.r.t"(Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology),this will report to you when your drive is about to pack in or fail,this setting can be changed from the advanced bios features in set up,click this and select enabled
my advice is do the checks and if the drive starts to affect the p.c,s performance replace it but use the drive as a slave drive so not to make the exersize a total waste
any problems let me know
good luck ziggey !
2007-09-27 08:29:25 · answer #3 · answered by brianthesnail123 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If it just started doing that recently, your computer may be infected with adware. Adware is known for causing extreme hard disk drive activity and also slowing down greatly the boot-up process.
The above is just one possibility and it requires more information to determine what is actually causing the disk activity.
If you are tech-savvy, you may want to look at Task Manager (I'm assuming you have MS Windows) and examine the CPU usage and process list. Beyond that, you can download a program called DiskMon (as in "disk monitor") to find the culprit of the disk activity. The link for DiskMon is:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/diskmon.mspx
2007-09-27 08:22:09 · answer #4 · answered by techhelp_2007 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a hard drive go bad. It made a ping noise every few seconds. Like a metal to metal noise. The platter is getting scratched if thats the problem.
2007-09-27 08:19:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could have spyware or adaware or something like that on your computer that is accessing the hard drive a lot and causing it to sound like that. You could run Spybot, Adware, and AVG Antivirus and clean up the hard drive. They are all free programs you can download online.
Or the hard drive could be going bad, depending on how old it is and how heavily you have used it.
2007-09-27 08:15:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on your OS. If you just installed Windows Vista, this is normal for the first few times you use your computer (it's being indexed).
This activity can also happen if you just installed Google Desktop (again, indexing your computer).
That aside, you may wish to scan your computer for viruses and spyware. If you need suggestions for programs to use, check out:
AVG Free: free.grisoft.com
Ad-Aware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
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2007-09-27 08:30:51 · answer #7 · answered by Scyon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try going into system tools and use the Disk Defragmenter.
2007-09-27 08:18:05 · answer #8 · answered by bridport 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that might not be your hard drive that might be your fan on your power supply or it may be your graphics card, does the same noise when i play CSS.
2007-09-27 08:14:48 · answer #9 · answered by Recon B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your HD is running then the light will be blinking, if so then right click task bar, open task manager and see what is running.
2007-09-27 08:21:12 · answer #10 · answered by jimmymae2000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋