Shoutbox

another peice of information, that might help, is that i noticed, seconds (about 5-10) before everything frezzes in place, i notice a "click" from one of my hard drives, then a few scratching sounds, like the hard drive is being read from.

that click i've heard before and is usualy when the hard drive is first starting up (ie at boot up, or after the computer has idled for a while then you start using it again)

i've run the powermax hard drive tests on all my drives, as recommended by the maxor site(all 3 drives are maxors)

still don't know exactly whats going on, but maybe soembody else here does, based on that additional info