Hello all,
I have a Dell Latitude E6400 that runs very slowly, and when looking in Resource Monitor, the hard disk activity frequently spikes to 100% when only 1 MB/s is being read/written to the disk. The same thing happens in Safe Mode. The hard disk is a Crucial V4 128 GB SSD. There is still 80 GB of free space available. Here are the specs:Dell Latitude E6400
Core 2 Duo @ 2.6 GHz
4 GB RAM
128 GB Crucial V4 SSD
Intel GMA 4500HD Graphics
Windows 7 Ultimate X64In Resource Monitor, there is no single process hogging all of the hard disk transfer. But, whenever I launch an application, like Google Chrome, disk activity spikes to 100%. I've already tried reformatting and reinstalling the OS, but it din't help. Any ideas?
Thanks,
RMT2You've been helped by a 15 year old.
Disk activity or CPU usage? You might want to consider dumping Chrome for Firefox. Also, no mechanicall HDD for storage?
Disk Activity. The CPU usage is perfectly fine. But this isn't just a problem with Google Chrome, the disk usage spikes to 100% even if I just am installing an application or downloading a file. You've been helped by a 15 year old.
Sorry, didn't realize you were asking about a laptop. I'm not familar with SSDs & considering their high cost per GB, I doubt I'll be getting one anytime soon. Did you install the SATA drivers & configure the drive settings in the BIOS? I know it's a Dell so there's probably not much you can tweak.
The drive was setup as AHCI in the BIOS when I installed the OS. There is the IRRT option available in the BIOS, but I didn't set it up using it. There aren't any missing drivers in Device Manager. Thanks for your help so far! Do you have any other ideas? You've been helped by a 15 year old.
Also, I just tried Firefox on this system, and it runs even slower than Chrome, the hard disk activity spikes with it as well. You've been helped by a 15 year old.
