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deggers316 | 12:50 Fri 10th Jun 2011 | Computers
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ive checked my hard drives with the speedfan S.M.A.R.T. prog and they both checked out as good (all green) but one of them is making a quiet grinding noise only when searching the web. ive not noticed this before could the SMART prog be wrong and its time to replace the drive
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If it's the same noise that the drive makes when it's opening a large file for the first time off that drive, and if it's the same drive your swap (page) file is on then your computer is swapping the contents of your RAM into virtual memory. Which would suggest you are running out of RAM
13:43 Fri 10th Jun 2011
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ive got 3gb of ram chuck and dual core pentium r 4. 3.20 cpu
15:12 Fri 10th Jun 2011
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i.m on xp pro
no page file set, shouldn't need it with 3gb ram
15:18 Fri 10th Jun 2011
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chuck sorry i mean its system set on "c"
17:04 Fri 10th Jun 2011
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No .. I don't think so.
Pagefile is always used from boot (if there is one) as it's possible not to have one.
23:11 Fri 10th Jun 2011

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