Re: hard drive reving up periodically

It isn't the harddrive, they only run one speed. It could be a fan, or the optical drive. Those items can change speed as conditions warrant, nothing to worry about.

InTheZoneAC wrote:

Whenever I'm on this pc you can hear the hard drive rev up at random times and Im not sure if this is normal. I have run adaware se, spybot, yahoo antispy, avast antivirus and everything is clean. I just want to know if this action is normal and/or is there a way I can make it stop? This pc is a Sony Vaio PCV-W30 running Windows XP SP 2. I also have a ton of extra space on both internal hd's, not sure if that's relevant or not. 

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