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Josh1 Administrator |
posted August 27, 2006 04:07 PM
 
Joyful jet, it may be possible that the hard drive activity light is on the wrong jumper position. ------------------ Powered by Intelligent Computing Solutions. For every problem, there is a solution. Please give what you can to the Hurricane relief http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving/relief.asp IP: Logged |
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Joyful jet Junior Member |
posted August 25, 2006 11:45 AM
Seems we ran into the same problem. It is a compaq computer, WindowsME. Hard drive light stays on all the time EXCEPT when the hard drive is running, downloading etc. I ran ever virus scan I could find, 4 or 5 different spy ware programs and each time came up with nothing. Tried diagnostics and still came up with nothing. Finally replaced the power supply and that didn't work so I replaced the hard drive and guess what...the hard drive is still steady on. Amazing. So okay, I have a hard drive light that insists on running all the time. I'll just have to adjust, since I don't think there is a fix- maybe it is something to do with the motherboard and when she finally blows up I assume the hard drive light will go out! ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted May 08, 2005 02:17 PM
Its no problem, try downloading this http://www.download.com/Active-SMART/3000-2248_4-10330117.html?tag=lst-0-2 this will tell us the condition of your drive. Also you may want to take the cover off the case and make sure the cables on the back of your hard drives, are secure. When your run the download let us know the figures that, it gives you. ------------------
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uncle shorty Junior Member |
posted May 08, 2005 03:16 AM
Josh1, Sorry for the delay, I realize you like to close these things. The condition still exhists. Checked with process chr and it shows minimal activity. The pc has two hd's and this only occurs on c drive. Thanks Uncle Shorty. IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted February 21, 2005 03:26 PM
No problem, let us know what happens. ------------------
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uncle shorty Junior Member |
posted February 21, 2005 07:02 AM
Josh 1 Thanks for the help, downloaded process exp., Will run the next time the light stays on. Will reply back with results. IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted February 19, 2005 12:01 AM
Okay lets go ahead and download and run process explorer. This tool will tell us if any of your CPU is being used, download the tool from here: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml when the hard drive starts to light up then open this and see if the CPU usage is high. ------------------
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uncle shorty Junior Member |
posted February 18, 2005 04:28 AM
Yes, sorry I didn't completely post the Question. Ran defrag, ad-ware, panda virus scan, everything short of reformatting. When the light is on nothing makes it go out short of re booting. Thanks IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted February 17, 2005 01:39 PM
Have you ran a defrag, and ran Adaware or Spybot? ------------------
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uncle shorty Junior Member |
posted February 17, 2005 04:55 AM
Win Me, After pc is on for awhile the hd light comes on and stays on. Checked for apps running in background, also other stuff. The only way it stops is to reboot. IP: Logged |
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