I have an AMD Athlon 700 on a Gigabyte Mbd with Maxtor
60gb drive, TEAC CDROM writer, running Win 98SE using
the AMD drivers for IDE drives.
Here's the weirdness - After boot up , when you try to
open "my computer" it opens with a blank screen (no
drive icons) that sits for almost 2 minutes before
the drive stops frantically accessing and the icons appear!
I have defragged the drive which has no effect -
the other strange thing is the CDROM access LED keeps
pinging rhythmically every second like something is trying to access it - with or without a disc in the drive.
(I have dealt with this in SCSI chains but never seen
this in a no-SCSI system!)
I have tried shutting of all but the minimum in the system tray ( I normally run Zone Alarm Pro and Norton Antivirus)
it makes no difference. I also ran Norton Windoctor and
Full viruscan came up with nothing. If I leave the CPU
monitor on I notice the usage never drops all the way down
(most systems it will get down to 1-3% with nothing going on
this one keeps up around 8% and bouncing around - like
something is running in the backround that does not show
up when you hit "ctrl/alt/del". I boot into "safe mode" and the drive runs faster in "msdos compatability mode"!!
"My Computer" opens way faster and there is no pinging
of the CDROM drive...
How can I determine what is running invisible?
Thanks in advance for your time and thanks to all for the
great info I have gotten from the people in this forum!
60gb drive, TEAC CDROM writer, running Win 98SE using
the AMD drivers for IDE drives.
Here's the weirdness - After boot up , when you try to
open "my computer" it opens with a blank screen (no
drive icons) that sits for almost 2 minutes before
the drive stops frantically accessing and the icons appear!
I have defragged the drive which has no effect -
the other strange thing is the CDROM access LED keeps
pinging rhythmically every second like something is trying to access it - with or without a disc in the drive.
(I have dealt with this in SCSI chains but never seen
this in a no-SCSI system!)
I have tried shutting of all but the minimum in the system tray ( I normally run Zone Alarm Pro and Norton Antivirus)
it makes no difference. I also ran Norton Windoctor and
Full viruscan came up with nothing. If I leave the CPU
monitor on I notice the usage never drops all the way down
(most systems it will get down to 1-3% with nothing going on
this one keeps up around 8% and bouncing around - like
something is running in the backround that does not show
up when you hit "ctrl/alt/del". I boot into "safe mode" and the drive runs faster in "msdos compatability mode"!!
"My Computer" opens way faster and there is no pinging
of the CDROM drive...
How can I determine what is running invisible?
Thanks in advance for your time and thanks to all for the
great info I have gotten from the people in this forum!