100% disk usage

notleeee · December 30, 2016

I have a amd a10 7850k and a msi gtx 960 2gb. I am getting 100% disk usage i need help.

CarsonAurum · December 30, 2016

You could start by posting a picture of your task manager and a little more detail on what's being run on your computer.

Wix · December 30, 2016

I had that problem before on Windows 10. I'm not sure which one fixed it but the things I tried are:

Run > services.msc

1. Disable BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service)

2. Disable WSearch (Windows Search)

3. Disable Superfetch

4. Manually set your Page File to 1024 x (your RAM in GB)

These were all suggested fixes I found on Google.

After letting the PC sit idle for a while it calmed down.

Edit P.S.

I had that problem on a Windows 10 PC with an HDD but not on my other PC with an SSD.

PCGeek · December 30, 2016

If you are using an HDD you could be bottlenecking it if there is increased IO. However that is not a forgone conclusion. You should use Process Monitor and Process Explorer to determine the offender. Simple task manager or resource monitor won't give a good representation since you need to walk the process tree to understand what's spawning that activity. Procmon and Process Explorer will help with that.