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Old 03-24-2013, 01:12 PM   #12
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s.m.a.r.t. status is easily readable in Ubuntu (Disk Manager) : Green, with no marginal values.

The Event viewer in windows can also give clues to drive problems (no where near as friendly to see). I was doing service on my wife's Dell when I spotted a few 'disk retry' type messages, A quick trip to Fry's and an hour to clone the drive resolved a possible big problem with little pain.

Whatever it is, it is good at hiding. a 15-20 second 'pause' (even the task manager graphs stop moving). Process explorer does not show unusually high (commit) activity.
1. When was the battery for the bios memory checked/changed?

2. If the battery is good then reset/clear the bios.

3. Your southbridge chip might be going bad or overheating. A good check for this is to defrag your hd.

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