Vista Ultimate on HP DC 7900 Mini lathe, always charge readers of cd rom and dvd rom.

I installed Vista Ultimate on a HP DC7900 minitower. Clean install on new hard drive. Have no cd and dvd rom installed on the same cable (ide).

It is on a small network of three computers, 1. XP 2. Vista Ultimate 3. Windows 7 Professional 4. HP Laserjet 4000N 5. Router DLink 825.

No other computers have this problem.

Since the first day, when the computer should be slowed down and in fact is in mode 'sleep', the tasks of the computer (seeks?) first the dvd rom and cd rom drives. I can only describe as a ratcheting noise. It lasts only a few seconds, but takes it approximately every 20 minutes.

I installed all the updates for Vista on a regular basis, of which none have eliminated the problem. He did it since the day that I install.

The only way to stop the problem is to stop the computer everyday and restart the next day. I can't let it run all night. When I run all day, if I walk more than half an hour, he start "multitasking" records rom again.

Anyone has this problem next to me?

Thanks to all those who may have the solution.

I could go to Windows 7 on this computer and probably should, but do not have eight hours to spend in the upgrade right now.

Hello

I suggest you to check the link below to perform hardware diagnostics:

http://h10025.www1.HP.com/ewfrf/wc/document?DocName=c00849402&LC=en&cc=UK&DLC=en

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