Soldato
Anything from changing the sound volume (see attached pic), alt-tabbing, opening a Firefox tab, opening a folder in Explorer and even hitting "preview post" on this forum will invoke hard disk activity LED for several seconds and I normally can't move the cursor when that happens. Task Manager lists "system" as the culprit whenever this happens. When I hit properties on system, it lists itself as ntoskrnl. Resource Monitor lists several instances of pagefile.sys. Have tried the following:
1. Chkdsk, which is the most obvious if it's a dying hard disk, but Chkdsk came back negative.
2. Disabled the page file, no difference, so re-enabled it.
3. Re-extracted Firefox (portable version btw), tried Chrome and Internet Exploder... still the same.
Any pointers please, that would be grand! I can't go inside the PC to check S-ATA cables etc as it's NHS property until I've paid it off fully in 2 years time. Plus, it's an all-in-one PC, so I'm not sure how to get inside one of those anyway
1. Chkdsk, which is the most obvious if it's a dying hard disk, but Chkdsk came back negative.
2. Disabled the page file, no difference, so re-enabled it.
3. Re-extracted Firefox (portable version btw), tried Chrome and Internet Exploder... still the same.
Any pointers please, that would be grand! I can't go inside the PC to check S-ATA cables etc as it's NHS property until I've paid it off fully in 2 years time. Plus, it's an all-in-one PC, so I'm not sure how to get inside one of those anyway