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100% Disk Usage on my SSD while doing low-intensive work.

What AV are you running ?
 
Melvis said:
What AV are you running ?
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I tend to just leave Windows Defender on, with Malwarebytes as well.
With Avast and AVG being installed every now and again to do additional scans for the others might miss.
 
I didn't think this would be connected, but it might be.
When I turn on my computer, sometimes the SSD isn't recognised and I need to press ctrl+alt+dlt to do a reset and hope that it gets picked up, but it never happens more than twice at a time.
Not sure what causes this, but it is possible that it might be related to the random freezing?
 
ok as I know some AV's will make a system run very slow and need to be removed and reinstalled and with your SSD not getting picked up check your sata cables and BIOS update
 
Check power and data cables, make sure bios is set to AHCI not IDE.

If got to try another cable or even a different port on motherboard. Make sure chipset drivers are installed too.

Worst case is replace drive or motherboard
 
eidairaman1 said:
Check power and data cables, make sure bios is set to AHCI not IDE.

If got to try another cable or even a different port on motherboard. Make sure chipset drivers are installed too.
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Thanks, this has seemed to have fixed my problem. BIOS had an update from a week ago, and changed SATA cables and the port it was connected to on my motherboard and all seems to be good. No freezes or anything in the last couple of days.

Thanks heaps everyone!
 
I wonder if the port wasnt on the chipset itself but on a daughter chip.
 
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