padgettb 0 Posted March 3, 2000 I've reinstalled W2K five times now. Each time after 2-3 days of use my primary SCSI drive begins constantly accessing itself for no reason. I look at the task manager and no processes are being used. Boot up takes for ever. I have 256 megs so memory is not the issue. I tried different MB and SCSI bioses, didn't fix it. Linux, Win98 and Win95 all do not have this problem however. I never had this problem with the Beta. Anyone have any ideas? Share this post Link to post
Shrink 0 Posted March 3, 2000 Check to see if the indexing service has started. ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! PIII 450@504 Soltek SL67B Mobo with 128 mb pc100 20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR SBlive Value Voodooo3 3000 AGP ... and a bunch of USB Stuff Windows 2000 Pro Retail Share this post Link to post
padgettb 0 Posted March 3, 2000 The indexing service is not starting at any time... Share this post Link to post
acidspray 0 Posted March 10, 2000 Yea, I get this too, though I have no SCSI devices. Only on occasion however, and it starts just as the Win2k login screen comes up, hard drive just takes off <clickity, click, click> through loading my settings, and startup proggies...must be 30-40 seconds maybe more where you can't even access the system though the desktop is there. Finally, it subsides and it's business as usual from there. What's this indexing about? -AciD Share this post Link to post
padgettb 0 Posted March 10, 2000 Indexing is an NTFS feature. The drive caches file information for faster access. It's not really needed on smaller drives so you have to enable it manually I think. I've given up reinstalling. Now the problem comes and goes. What kind of hardware do you have? Share this post Link to post
LoW_beta 0 Posted March 10, 2000 I noticed this too, until I set the Indexing Service to Auto from Manual. My hard drive is an 9GB U2W/LVD. So try setting the Indexing service to Auto and see if that helps for your setup. Also with a 9GB drive and 512MB of RAM does anyone know if a 1536 min and max value for the pagefile is a good optimium setting? or what do you recommend. thanks Share this post Link to post
acidspray 0 Posted March 14, 2000 right on...set indexing to auto and the click-fest seems to have subsided. Thanks, ------------------ -AciD >-----------------------< Hardware: BP6 running QQ Beta BIOS Dual Celeron 366 @ 566MHZ 128MB Samsung -GL IBM UDMA66 13.6g WDC UDMA33 5.1g Toshiba 32x OTI Socrates 2x2x6x V3-2000-AGP clocked @ 166 SB AWE64 Value Hayes V90 Int. Spk Phone >-----------------------< Software: Win2K Pro Retail (2195) Office 2000 Premium NA ViruScan NT 4.03a Mobo Monitor 4.10 Share this post Link to post
slkh 0 Posted March 15, 2000 Maybe some kind of auto-defragmenting mechanism going on? I do realize this as well. But the disk activity wasn't very heavy, it blinks from time to time (approx 3 sec one blink). But doesn't quite bother me. Share this post Link to post
