For about 3 days now (or at least that's the earliest I noticed it, but it couldn't have been doing it much earlier than that) my computer has been freezing up for about 3-4 seconds while the hard drive light comes on solid. This happens constantly every few seconds regardless of whether the computer is doing anything or not. I've gone around the internet searching for ideas, but nothing I've tried (disabling superfetch, windows search, booting in safe mode, updating drivers, checking for raid drivers, disabling avg, defragmenting, and simply removing every unimportant program I can get away with) has had any effect.
The computer is a Alienware M15x that I got less than two months ago (totally awesome Christmas present). It's got Windows 7 Home premium on it, a 500 gig hard drive that all diagnosis said is working fine, and 6 gigs of ram, I had AVG antivirus on it too (until I removed it in failed attempt to fix this), and system protection (the backups and whatnot) was already disabled. I also did a system restore to before it started doing this, but that didn't help either.
The only problem that is flagged that comes up when I generate a system health report is that the disk queue length averages 2-3 and goes as high as 30. I can sit and watch it spike every 2-3 seconds from the resource monitor, which coincides with when the hard drive light goes on the the computer hangs. It even does it in safe mode, and it makes all the games freeze off and on too.
I'm completely at my wit's end here, and nothing I've tried has worked, Is there something I'm missing here?
