I think it's failing, there's no sounds or anything but everything is running slow. I just did a clean install it took longer than normal to reinstall vista 64; so that leads me to think it's hard drive. I did memtest and it was fine. I downloaded Bart's Stuff Test and it's saying my max transfer rate is 12mb/s avg is 10mb/s this is normal? It's a 7200.12 hard drive.