Slight sound lag when loading webpages?

Soldato
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Hello,

It seems that when I load a webpage that has content on it that hasn't been cached my sound and sometimes my mouse lag a bit.

I also get disk errors - event ID 11 in my event viewer.

I did a full low level format earlier to fix some problems and make everything nice and cleane (including attempting to fix these problems) so it's nothing to do with bad sectors or anything.

Here's the event id 11:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 11
Date: 26/08/2006
Time: 02:02:20
User: N/A
Computer: SCAR
Description:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\D.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 03 00 68 00 01 00 b6 00 ..h...¶.
0008: 00 00 00 00 0b 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 7e 0b 08 05 00 00 00 .~......
0028: 72 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 r.......
0030: ff ff ff ff 03 00 00 00 ÿÿÿÿ....
0038: 40 00 00 8f 02 00 00 00 @......
0040: 00 20 0a 12 40 03 20 40 . ..@. @
0048: 00 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 ........
0050: 00 00 00 00 40 ac 6d 86 ....@¬m†
0058: 00 00 00 00 e0 f4 45 86 ....àôE†
0060: 02 00 00 00 bf 05 84 02 ....¿.„.
0068: 28 00 02 84 05 bf 00 00 (..„.¿..
0070: f9 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ù.......
0078: f0 00 04 00 00 00 00 0b ð.......
0080: 00 00 00 00 08 03 00 00 ........
0088: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

I have replaces the SATA cable but that didn't make a difference.

It's weird, I never notice any major disk lag or major loading, freezing. Nothing. Those errors just come out for no reason, I seem to get 2 every day.

Maxtor suggested I run the Power Max tool, the drive passed all of those tests, shortly afterwards I did a low level format partly to clean up my PC and partly because that's what Maxtor suggested to fix the drive.

My main 'niggle' is when loading webpages that haven't yet been cached I get some slight sound lag which is very annoying when playing music. This could be due to me using a network card from my other PC, but I never noticed this slight lag problem when it was in my other PC.

Any ideas what I can try to fix this please?

Oh, also, I get a slow post (takes 12 seconds to post). I have tried booting without my CD-RW and CD-ROM plugged in but that didn't help, I have also had a new motherboard since (slow post on both the old motherboard and new motherboard) so it isn't that, I've kind of narrowed it down to the hard drive :(

--Edit--
Just glancing back at the actual event ID 11 error now & it says \Device\Harddisk0\D - could this still be my C: SATA drive? Or does this show that it isn't my main hard drive?

Thanks,
Craig.
 
Bump.

EDIT

Was just playing some music & when my hard drive loaded something the sound would lag terribly. I rebooted & it's back to the normal problem (what I explained above) but the major lag is gone.

I did recently get a new motherboard but didn't have any of these errors when I got the motherboard, so I still think it might be the hard drive causing this crap.

Any ideas please?

EDIT

Also, it seems that the sound lag occurs more when the page is full of images, for example when browsing OcUK forums, as the images are already cached and all it has to load is text it doesn't make the sound lag at all. But then when browsing the screenshot thread it'll lag when it starts to load the images, but then as it's loading the images it doesn't lag... it's really weird and I'm tired of all these problems. I've had non-stop problems since I got this computer... I've had it for over a year now and it's still got problems.

EDIT

10 disk errors (event id 11) since 26th August. It seems to be more when I boot the PC up (10 reboots sounds right for a reinstallation of Windows - updates etc.) and one earlier today when I booted up as well. And my other hard drive hasn't been turned on so it's definitely my main hard drive.

I'll change actual SATA slots later on to see if that helps.

Thanks,
Craig.
 
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