T42 Harddrive Hesitation

Has anyone experienced problems with harrdrive hesitation with the T42?
There is frequently a delay with the harddrive. The mouse frequently will hesitate and pick back up in like half a second. If I scroll down a spreadsheet I will notice the same hesitation. If I listen to an mp3 I cannot get thru a song with out it hesitating a couple of times.

I have had the harddrive replaced and I have the same issue with the new harddrive. I have had this laptop for just over a month.

I have checked the shock protection as well and turned off any motion protection.
I have 1 GB RAM. This will happen with any program.

This is very frustrating. I am thinking I may need an updated driver or something. Any ideas?

 

How much RAM do you have? This sounds like a memory or processor issue and not at all a hard drive issue, once a program is loaded from the hard drive such as a spreadsheet application or media player it relies on loading from memory and the processor interpreting those instructions from memory -- it won't be hitting the hard drive.

 

Thanks for the reply.

I have 1.00 GB of Ram.

I can have one spreadsheet open and it will still do it. I agree I thought it was lack of Ram as well but I have plenty.

I can have just Windows Media open and the songs still hesitate. When I do have spreadsheets open, the problem does not get worse. It is consistent regardless of how many programs are open.

I did open up my Task Manager looking for programs CPU % useage.

Each time it hesitates I see where Image Name:

"System" uses a great deal of CPU. This is somewhat of a vague description. This occurs even when no program is open.

"System Idle" is also present but that isn't the issue. It is the other "System" description.

I have a print screen that I will attach.

 

I wanted to add that the "System" that is the issue reads 45% CPU useage not the 51%


The "System" taking 45% of the CPU only last for about half a second then immediatley drops back to 0.

It happens every 30-45 seconds randomly.



This may not be related but I have found everytime I freeze up, that "program" is shown in the Task Manager at a very high %. I don't even have to have anything open. It is like it drains my CPU useage up just for a second.

 

Do you have an antivirus program (i.e. Norton or McAfee) installed? If so, try disabling it temporarily to see if it's the problem.

I'd also suggest downloading Spybot and/or Adaware too. Run the scans and see what (if anything) they turn up. Spyware/Adware can result in the behavior you're describing.

 

additional note to what jason said, did u recently visit a porn site?

 

pornsite? whuts that...






I will check out what anti-virus program I have and disable. Hopefully thats it.

 

Yes, checkout any background processes such as the anti-virus, in the new version of the IBM ThinkVantage software you can make it so the anti-virus processes only get processor time when the notebook is idle so they don't hog resources while you are working. It might be that you have a stick of bad RAM or something also, but usually that'll get detected upon install so I'd say that's a low probability.

 

I finally think we found the problem. The problem was the **** Wireless Connection.

We disabled the Wireless Connections and it now runs like a champ.

So if anyone has experienced this problem, disable the Wireless Connection.

Thanks for your help.

 

and that helps with performance for spreadsheet applications implying that the wireless was hogging resources? That doesn't sound quite right, but maybe there is an indirect correlation between some level of performance and the wireless being on or off.

 

The performance isn't really any better having Wireless (off).... the performance of the harddrive was great until it froze up. The freezing up occurred regardless of what programs were running.
I could just have winamp open listening to a song and it would freeze up for half a second.
Using spreadsheets was a common time the mouse would freeze causing me to pull my hair out. It was basically an example.
I use the laptop at work. There is an apt complex 50 feet from my cube. There are around 15-20 potential wireless hosts. The wireless was constantly searching for a connection.

I found out today that another girl on this floor had the exact same problem with her T42... hers would cut out while typing emails.... it would skip letters ect.....
Since we shut off the wireless connection, neither laptop has acted up.....