T410 hangs and disk light on continuously

[bod_b]

Hi

My new T410 hangs (on average once or twice a day) and the disk light is continuously lit as if there is a lot of work going on on the disk. Nothing on the screen responds while this is happening. This goes on for a few minutes and then things return to normal.

The disk is 0% fragmented. I am running Windows 7 64-bit and Windows security essentials. I have installed very little on the machine apart from Office.

Thanks

Dave

[ColonelONeill]

Can you check the SMART values on it? It sounds a bit like hard drive failure.

[Kicker774]

Yes run the drive checker utility from your BIOS

[tonys]

Greetings to everybody,

I have exactly same situation here, though neither diagnostics nor windows tools report anything out of the ordinary. 

PC-Doctor (i.e. Think vantage) stress test finishes with flying colours (all PASS), but often when mere Outlook/Word apps are open, I often experience that letters display themselves a minute later than when I pressed the letter keys. HDD light is constantly ON (CPU/RAM below 50%) while just now I tried to convert avi to mp4 and it just shut down unexpectedly.

Any thoughts? I know I should take it to the shop as it is still under warranty, but it is never a good time or enough time...

[richk]

Tonys: Open the task manager. (right click on the taskbar) It will show running tasks. You will be able to see what is doing all the disk activity