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In other words: "Recently fired from Microsoft after working on Windows 95 for at least five years".
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FTFY
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indeterminate. no single application seems to be hammering the disk
at this point my best guess is a dodgy SATA chip on the motherboard.
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Was it this guy? [image]
Maybe you need: [image]
Seriously though, if your laptop has diagnostic options for the drive, you could try that.
I'd normally also recommend resource monitor, but IIRC you were the one who informed me about that one.
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comes up clean. :frowning:
it's what i run.good news is i'm up for laptop replacement this year, sop hopefully i'll get a not dodgy one.
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Yup. When it comes to video drivers, it's best to just stick with the basic driver install and not install all the bundled crapware.
Ofcourse, sometimes even that doesn't protect you from stupid disk-churning. ATI had a nice little thing for a couple of years where whenever you'd try to play back a file with hardware assisted decoding, i.e., DXVA, it would log an error in the Windows event logs every few milliseconds for as long as the file was playing if your card or the file in question didn't properly support DXVA for whatever reason.
It even had a dedicated Windows event log category created on the system by the driver installer specifically for this purpose, so you know some hairbrained idiot at one time constructed it to intentionally act like this and didn't think it was a problem. :crazy:
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i remember my first computer.....
it had a bloody MASSIVE full height PATA hard drive that had a capacity of......
well that depended. the sticker on the drive said 500MB, but i never could get it to recognize more than 200MB
i got it as a frankenputer, scavenged from the IT waste from my dads work, so my best guess is someone decided it was a good ide to do a low level format on the drive and fucked something up.
I still have the case somewhere...
I think it was a standard ATX motherboard.... i wonder if the mount points/backplane are compatible with modern motherboards.....
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that was my thought!
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Ah, the wonders of FAT16…
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Paging @end.
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To be fair, being forced to play Star Control 3 would stress out just about anyone after twenty minutes.
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Back In The Day, I built a fancy Athlon XP based system into an original IBM 5150 PC case.
The power supply needed to be politely convinced to stay in place using duc* tape and baling wire, the motherboard stand-offs did some interesting things like not actually being screwed down to the case,I left one of the original disk drives in place just to fill some space and wound up building a new cage to hold the real drives, but at least it worked.
I tried fitting a Hercules MDA into an available ISA slot to make everything look authentic, but was never able to get it working quite right. Eventually I replaced it all with something half the size and a quarter the weight. The old case was probably lost while moving many years ago, but I'm okay with that.
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Did you know that 5150 is the Los Angeles police code for 'criminally insane'?
Coincidence? ;-)
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Oh Phew. I don't have to worry about criminally insane at least...
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The first IBM-PC* I got had a 200 MB hard drive and 4 MB of RAM. I remember paying $100 for 16 MB of RAM, which was enough to run Doom (maybe it was Doom 2) after having run Windows 3.1 without rebooting. A month and a half ago, I paid $100 for 16 GB of RAM.
* Some people don't really count the Commodore 64 as a PC. Those people are wrong.
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I had a disk like that at my first job, although it might have been ESDI or SCSI; it's been too many years ago to remember for sure. We made chips for disk drive controllers, SCSI host adapters, and the like. We just used it for testing, but it was kinda fun having a 500MB drive hooked up to a computer that shipped with a 10 or 20MB drive, or even no HDD support at all.
It's been a few decades since I worked in that domain, so I've forgotten a lot of what I used to know, but how is it even possible to do that?Admin
If Michael knew how to use WinDirStat, he would immediately know where the offending files were located and what they are. WinDirStat literally draws a picture for you. (Big eye roll)