03-12-2011, 03:05 PM

Hi,


I recently upgraded my macbook's internal hard drive from a 120GB 4500 RPM to a Western Digital Scorpio (black I think?) 500 GB, 7200 RPM. Everything on my computer seems to be running perfectly, and likely faster than before.

However, my video seizes up when streaming video on youtube, any other video site, or even playing videos on my computer. Sometimes I can go for half an hour (in a movie let's say) before it starts messing up, or sometimes I can't get through a 3 minute YouTube video.

When it's 'seizing up' the video feed freezes and the audio loops for a few seconds, before skipping a tiny bit ahead (as far ahead as it would've gone if it wasn't freezing) and starts skipping again like a broken record.

This problem was not an issue before I upgraded my hard drive, and the hard drive was brand new and shows no other symptoms of having issues.

There's plenty of space on my hard drive, and still happens when I close all other applications, and I have 3 GB of ram. I've tried repairing permissions, downloading new versions of flash, VLC, firefox, and system updates.


Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Danny

03-12-2011, 03:11 PM

For clarification - are you saying that if you have a movie - solely on your hard drive - it will freeze or start skipping? [In other words not just in a streaming mode]. Have you ran disk utility? Disk Utility

03-12-2011, 06:44 PM

whats the SMART status of the drive?

03-12-2011, 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by robduckyworth

whats the SMART status of the drive?

Verified.

To the other question, videos have been failing even if on my drive. Also included is running final Cut express, playing back my own video editing stuff also has the same problem.

Along with the noise, it also freezes the whole computer, my curor will jump to as far as my mouse moved (or much further) when the computer catches up.