Help diagnosing I/O or Harddisk problem

[NightRhyme]

I am trying to find the cause of a little problem I'm having.

When my disk is heavily accessed. For instance when opening a lot of big appz like photoshop, after effect and illustrator at the same time. mp3's playing in the background starts skipping bad. This might be nothing but I never experienced this before on my other machines.

It has to be noted that the system only has the one disk (WD Caviar Blue 750gb 16mb cache) and it's about 60% full.

Was just wondering if this is an indication of a controller problem or Harddisk problem or just considered normal ?

Thanx in advance



System specs:
OS: Windows XP, sp3
CPU: E6850 3.42Ghz
Mobo: Asus p5k Premium black pearl
Memory: 4 x 1gb Crucial DDR2 BallistiX PC8500, 1142mhz
HD: WD Caviar Blue 750gb 16mb cache
PSU: Corsair HX520W
GFX: Club3D HD 4870, Cat 8.7

[rjs735]

You might try degfragging. A heavily fragmented drive will cause this stuttering because of having to keep moving the acces arm from one program to another while loading and not getting back to the loading of ( streaming the mpg3 files).

Better yet drives being so inexpensive why not invest in either an external drive for all you video and music or another internal drive. Then you can separate your data and music/video files.