I am experiencing some issues which might be down to HDD problems. Every now and then the whole screen movement of cursor or scrolling in a window stops I can hear the HDD clonking away being updated or read and when it stops I have control again.
The Bios is set to IDE for the ICH SATA Control Mode with SATA Ports 0-3 native mode set as disabled.
I have tried ACHI but just cannot boot to windows with this setting. I do not have any raid set up as i do not need or use this.
Has anyone got any ideas as to what causes this lockout its some 10 or more seconds I have to wait before I can regain use of the system while the drive is busy.
I have an I7-930 quad core chip so would have thought that if the HDD was busy I would have still had control over scrolling and cursor.
HDD is Seagate Barracuda 7200.12, 500Gb Partitioned to C:\ & D:\