Disk @ 100%
Posted: September 5th, 2018, 5:38 pm
This is really getting a bit beyond a joke. My computer (Acer Aspire, Windows 10, 8gb, 20 months old) is freezing for 10-15 minutes at a time and sometimes takes three attempts to boot beyond the login screen. (It all goes black.) Grrr! Or at best, it does everything it's supposed to at the speed of lumpy treacle, and it constantly declares that various files are "not responding". (If I wait long enough they come back.)
Whenever this happens, Task Manager shows 100% disk activity but it doesn't show any processes that seem to account for all that usage. (Although any number of Windows service host routines do seem to be on the go.) And then just when I'm ready to chuck the machine out of the window, it behaves itself perfectly for 10 minutes before it goes off and does it again. I can't get any work done!
I've checked that all vents are free on the case and that cooler fans etc are running. I've seen it suggested that my drivers may need an update, because they may be clashing with the latest Windows updates. Hmmm, it ought to be possible to do that. What's the best/quickest way to do a sweep for updates?
Questions, questions. Any thoughts? Disk check, maybe?
BJ
Whenever this happens, Task Manager shows 100% disk activity but it doesn't show any processes that seem to account for all that usage. (Although any number of Windows service host routines do seem to be on the go.) And then just when I'm ready to chuck the machine out of the window, it behaves itself perfectly for 10 minutes before it goes off and does it again. I can't get any work done!
I've checked that all vents are free on the case and that cooler fans etc are running. I've seen it suggested that my drivers may need an update, because they may be clashing with the latest Windows updates. Hmmm, it ought to be possible to do that. What's the best/quickest way to do a sweep for updates?
Questions, questions. Any thoughts? Disk check, maybe?
BJ