Starting last week (thursday), every time I loaded up MxO or was playing MxO, my harddrive would make a loud click once, then would lock up and would either free up in a few seconds (where the process of locking up and freeing up over and over would commence) or force me to shut my computer down. This only happens with MxO. I thought, maybe, my computer needed to be cleaned. With the sudden increase in temperature and humidity, I figured dust was collecting. So I spent the weekend taking it apart and dusting/vacuuming piece after piece.
It's still doing this, and only with MxO (despite the fact that I am able to run games like F.E.A.R., Half-Life 2/Gmod without a problem) I realize this may be a problem with my harddrive, so any tech theories would help. I have never had this problem before, so I'm not sure if it's MxO, the harddrive itself, the video card, or what.
My local C: drive is a Maxtor 6V300F0, with 279 GB free space.
My video cards (2) are: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT.
I have 1 GB of RAM.
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz
I am running on Windows XP home edition.
It's still doing this, and only with MxO (despite the fact that I am able to run games like F.E.A.R., Half-Life 2/Gmod without a problem) I realize this may be a problem with my harddrive, so any tech theories would help. I have never had this problem before, so I'm not sure if it's MxO, the harddrive itself, the video card, or what.
My local C: drive is a Maxtor 6V300F0, with 279 GB free space.
My video cards (2) are: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT.
I have 1 GB of RAM.
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz
I am running on Windows XP home edition.