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    Added second HD and get second long pauses help please.

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Stink, Jan 21, 2009.

  1. Stink

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    Hi I have a 7811 and I added a WD 7200rpm 320gb HD and I turned off indexing for it. As soon as I installed it I would get puases/freezes for about 1 second at random, it is when the second HD is spinning up. But why is it spinning up out of nowhere? I am not using the second HD at the moment for anything that I was running. Also when I go to open the second HD it does the same thing and sometimes it never happens and other times it will happen 10 times a day. Is there something I am doing wrong I have never added a second HD to a computer before.
     
    Stink, Jan 21, 2009
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    KimoT Are we not men?

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    Have you turned off system restore, background defrag, and virtual memory on the drive? Any of these could be the reason. System restore is usually turned on by default on a new drive.
     
    KimoT, Jan 21, 2009
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  3. Stink

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    How do I turn those off? also I turned off write catching and it took away the check mark to turn it back on is that bad?
     
    Stink, Jan 21, 2009
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    Bump help please
     
    Stink, Jan 22, 2009
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    Ok, I might know exactly what this is, but I need more info. When it pauses, does the sound or video on a movie or game stutter, and does the whole screen sort of freeze, but the mouse moves to a different place during that second pause, even if it looks like it stays in the same place during the pause? Also, does NT kernel and system take up nearly 100% of CPU usage? If this is the case, then your hard drive is turning off, then back on periodically. You need to set it to stay on all of the time in power options. Of course, if that isn't the case, then I'm out of ideas.
     
    gamadaya, Jan 22, 2009
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    Yeah thats how it freezes screen froze and audio sounds like its skipping.
     
    Stink, Jan 23, 2009
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    Where in power options do I find where to have second HD on all the time?
     
    Stink, Jan 23, 2009
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    If you're running vista, go to power options and create a custom plan. Then go to change plan settings under your plan, and you should see text that says "Change advanced power settings". Go in hear, and there will be an Hard disk power option. Expand it, and make it so it never turns off. This took me forever to find by the way. I didn't even know it was my hard drive when it started, since I had my old hard drive turn off after not being used. Apparently it's only a problem once you install a second hard drive.
     
    gamadaya, Jan 23, 2009
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    Ok well I went to advanced settings in power options and it says when to turn the HD off in minutes but that doesn't say for which HD. Does it mean both? or my normal stock 200gb HD...i'm lost.
     
    Stink, Jan 23, 2009
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    It means both.
     
    gamadaya, Jan 23, 2009
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    Ok thank you that fixed it.
     
    Stink, Jan 23, 2009
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    @gamadaya,

    good tip. thanks. never played with advanced power settings before. changed lots of them.

    :)
     
    husky55, Jan 23, 2009
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