Hi - I did a clean install of W7 Ultimate on a duo-quad machine and it is always using the disk and many time thrasing it to death --- especially if I step away and leave machine idle (i.e. then, it thrashes moreso). I have 16GB or RAM and a 16 GB page file on a separate disk (separate from main W7) and am using PNY Quadro 440 monitor car for 4 monitors with a 2 TB hard drive with plenty of free space (more than half).
I have looked to see where is IO is happening and it is in two SCVHOST processes. I looked to see what services they were and each is about 8 services, most of which can not be stopped. If the machine thrashes for a 20 minute period and then it is idle for a long time (say 20 minutes) the thrashing stops, then after another 20 minutes it starts again. But, it seems that there is alsway some type of disk activity on the machine when it is not thrashing and no programs are running.
I did AVG scan and no virus, etc. is found. I am the administor but it thinks I am not (I have admin properties when I look) so the SFC can not be run. Any ideas or tools that you know of that can diagnose this type of thing?
Thanks for any help.
I have looked to see where is IO is happening and it is in two SCVHOST processes. I looked to see what services they were and each is about 8 services, most of which can not be stopped. If the machine thrashes for a 20 minute period and then it is idle for a long time (say 20 minutes) the thrashing stops, then after another 20 minutes it starts again. But, it seems that there is alsway some type of disk activity on the machine when it is not thrashing and no programs are running.
I did AVG scan and no virus, etc. is found. I am the administor but it thinks I am not (I have admin properties when I look) so the SFC can not be run. Any ideas or tools that you know of that can diagnose this type of thing?
Thanks for any help.