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- Oct 23, 2002
Luciferase said:
I think the only device that uses polling is a joystick........
Anyway, I get this problem too, and I strongly believe that its a mobo or led problem, nothing to do with the hard drive or software. Mine flashes every second while my computer is on and just running idle. It has never stayed off more more than one second unless my machine is powered off. I ran one of those XP services which tells you when your HDD is accessing something and even when the led was blinking the hard drive was NOT accessing anything.
Its obviously a problem with the led header on the mobo, or the led itself.......
my advice: unplug the led or get used to it.
EDIT:
"If you want to check if data is actually being written or read from your hard drive you could go to
control panel, click on admnisterative tools, the open performance.
Once it loads, you'll see a bar with icons on it. There will be a + icon beside and X icon.
click the + icon (add)
A little window will pop up, and from the drop down menu for performance object choose physical disk.
Then highlight and add the following
Disk bytes/sec
Disk read bytes/sec
Disk write bytes/sec
Then close that window, and you'll see a little graph of the info you just asked for. I suggest you take a look at the numerical values (the little notepad icon). Next time you see your hdd light go on, check to see if any bytes were writen or read. If not, then there is a problem with the lights. If there is a significant amount read or written then it's because the HDD is actually being accessed. Hope this helps"
That was written by Omega Destroyer from these forums in reguards to my thread I posted awhile back that can be found HERE.
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