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| Thread ID: 95326 | 2008-12-02 09:18:00 | Hard Drives pulsing read activity | sbowness (14287) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 725115 | 2008-12-02 09:18:00 | I've had Vista running for about 4 weeks. I have three SATA hard drives. A few days ago the second and third hard drives began a constant cycle of a short pulse of read activity for about half a second every 1.5 seconds. It starts shortly after the Vista desktop comes up and never stops. The disks won't power down as part of their power saving setting. This doesn't happen in Safe Mode. I have run virus checks with Norton 360 V2 and Kaspersky Online and found nothing. Adaware can't find anything either. I've tried disabling the Superfetch and Indexing services and defrag is not set to run. None of these make a difference. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. |
sbowness (14287) | ||
| 725116 | 2008-12-02 10:52:00 | Kill indexing / right mouse on the hdd / properties | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 725117 | 2008-12-02 13:58:00 | Speedy, he's already tried disabling Indexing and it hasn't helped. | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 725118 | 2008-12-02 18:39:00 | This might be something that sata drives do. I have had a a new computer since July running XP Home SP3 and it has a sata drive. Ever since it has been in there the drive light flickers on about every second. Has not caused any problems. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 725119 | 2008-12-02 19:00:00 | Thats true, I have noticed his SATA hdd flickers quite a bit Its probably one of the services communicating with something. Or depending on whats installed, its updating something Is SP1 installed? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 725120 | 2008-12-02 20:31:00 | Yes, SP1 is installed. It's not just a flicker, it's a significant read that takes about half a second. |
sbowness (14287) | ||
| 725121 | 2008-12-03 07:29:00 | the red light is good news: your hard drive still can power an LED for half a second |
pcuser7895 (12979) | ||
| 725122 | 2008-12-03 08:17:00 | I have run virus checks with Norton 360 V2 Norton might be running something in the background some previous versions had these characteristics. |
stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 725123 | 2008-12-03 08:26:00 | Have you got enough RAM? | mzee (3324) | ||
| 725124 | 2008-12-03 16:59:00 | I have 4GB of RAM with Vista x64, so that should be plenty. | sbowness (14287) | ||
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