Vista hangs then HDD clicks and Vista resumes.

[BioPenguin]

Hi there! I just last week upgraded my build and installed Vista (32bit Home Premium). Since the first time I logged in, I would get these random 3 second or so hangs, then the my hard drive would click and everything would be fine. This seem to happens randomly, when there's alot of HD activity and when I'm just on facebook.

I haven't ran any tests yet. I plan on running spinrite and chkdsk and maybe defrag. But I was wondering before I did all these tests if anyone had any advice on a fix for this? I'm just hoping its not my new motherboard -.- I don't wanna deal with the whole RMA crap.

RIG
Intel Pentium 4 3.2ghz
Gygabyte GA-EP45-UD3P
3GB of OCZ plat. DDR2 800 Ram ( 3 x 1gb sticks )
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3160023A ( Master HD )
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3200822A ( Slave HD )
OCZ700SXS PSU - 700W
ASUS 4870 512MB DKTOP

 

[evongugg]

Also test for spyware, viruses and trojans.

 

[evongugg]

Hard Disk Noises are warning signals

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/01/hard-disk-noises-are-warning-signals.html

 

[evongugg]

Hard Disk Clicking Sound

http://www.datarecovery.com.sg/data_recovery/hard_disk_symptons_clicking_sound.htm

 

[Guest]

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[Guest]

I had a clicking HDD. I fixed it with HDAT2 that I found in Hiren bootable CD that I found online.