Hard drive activity light blinking, but CPU is low?

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Gary King

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My computer sometimes goes slow (like extracting files, for instance, or encoding) and when it does, the hard drive activity light often blinks like crazy, but my CPU isn't at max? It's normally only about 50% or something. Is this normal? The computer is super slow while this happens. I find it weird that the hard drive is working like crazy while the CPU isn't maxed out. Is my HD crapping out?

Someone let me know! Thanks! :D
 
Try defragging your hard drive. Sounds like the drive is seeking all over the platters to get to where it needs to be to write/read data, and the cpu can't get enough work to do from it.
 
Is that the system in your sig?

If you have a dual core CPU or specifically a HT, it will usually peg at 50%.
 
UltimaParadox said:
Is that the system in your sig?

If you have a dual core CPU or specifically a HT, it will usually peg at 50%.
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You're lookin at the wrong sig ;)

P4 1.8s don't have HT
 
Talonz said:
You're lookin at the wrong sig ;)

P4 1.8s don't have HT
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That is what I was asking, if it was the system in your sig, I guess I should have worded it differently, as I know HT enabled P4s don't start till 2.4s
 
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