INstalled New Hard Drive, now Notebook is skipping. Help Please.

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Hey huys, I posted this in the video forum as well because I am not to sure were the post should go. Anyway I will tell you about my Original Setup, then I will tell you the things I did to it. I guess.   Original From Factory:   Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 1.73GHZ Pentium M Centrino 1GB Memory 60GB 5400Rpm Harddrive Nvidia Ge Force Go 6800   Then I upgraded the Memory to Its Max which is 2 GB, 1 GB stick in each slot. I then Upgraded the hard drive to a travlstar 100GB 7200RPM   I installed the new harddrive, then re-installed my Original Dell XP onto the hard drive, I then installed the new Ram, then Installed Windows Vista Home Premium. I then updated all my drivers from Dells site so everything would work great for Vista. And It did.   This configuration worked flawlessly for about a month or a month and a bit, with no gliches, The notebook Never Ran better. Super fast Start-ups and inproved my games alot. Well the Ones that I can get working.     So now for the Problem. I hope that it is somthing very simple. Every second or two i can hear my harddrive make the sound it makes when it is looking for somthing, and my notebook kin of freezes for a mili second. Just enough to p me off. Like when I move the mouse across the screen it will stop but only very very quickly. ANd movies do this as sell. As Well as with the audio.   Does anyone know what this is. Could It be a virus. I did Virus scans and it says everything is up to date and good to go.   Thanks Guys   Chad

techfanatic · Answer

It could be a video configuration issue. you may need to reinstall your video driver. I heard Vista will come up with a beta Service pack soon...

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