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10 minutes after start up, my computers' hard drive is constantly working for about 30 minutes rendering my computer useless. SHUTTING off and on my DSL modem seems to stop it. I've checked for viruses and spyware but nothing came up. There are no scheduled tasks such as defrag. Thank you for any advice.

Window XP 2
amd athlon 64 processor 3400+
2.20 ghz
1600 mhz fsb
512 kb l2 cache

200 gb ata hard drive

512 mb ddr sdram

ati radeon xpress 200

dvd+/-rw 16x double layer multi format driveHow old is the drive ? ?
How much free space is on it ? ?
Have you ran chkdsk /r recently ? ?

SOUNDS LIKE an app is phoning Home for UPDATES in the background...Quote from: fitzhugh on August 15, 2010, 04:04:45 PM

...Window XP 2...
It looks like you have WinXP-SP2. It's probably trying to download & install SP3, SP2 support ended in July.


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