Aframe
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|  [XP Pro] Hard drive light flashing
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I recently noticed my Evo 510c XP Pro SP2 hard drive light flashing at a rate of approximately once per second. Don't know for sure if this has recently started or if it has doing this forever. I have spent hours trying to determine what is causing this to no avail. The only thing showing in the Process Monitor is system idle process (99). Is the flashing (hard drive access?) normal? If not could someone direct me to a way to resolve this?
Thanks /Frank
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Cudni
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| you can also use this tool (diskmon) to check
»technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi···646.aspx
otherwise what software is running at any one time? How much ram? All of those software + system itself will use hd
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Aframe
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| said by Cudni  :you can also use this tool (diskmon) to check » technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi···646.aspxotherwise what software is running at any one time? How much ram? All of those software + system itself will use hd Cudni Thanks..
Ran disk monitor. Showed it was doing writes.
Also ran process explorer, I did not see anything that "looked" unusual. I have 2 megs of ram.
Gonna pretend that it has done this forever and not worry about it. Am planing a format and reinstall with SP3 in a few days and then see if it still does it..
later /Frank
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bcastner
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clubs:  | Good idea, as there is a Delf variant going around right now that causes this exact behavior. |
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KingWaffle
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said by Aframe :
I have 2 megs of ram.
Yikes! What OS you using? DOS? |
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Aframe
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| said by KingWaffle :said by Aframe :
I have 2 megs of ram.
Yikes! What OS you using? DOS? Maybe that's why the light is flashing. It appears MY lights are out!! 
Make that 2 GB.
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It's lsass.exe. There's nothing you can do about turning off lsass.exe however because it's a core system component. However, you're not totally out of luck. lsass.exe is simply a victim of this annoyance. The real culprit is Terminal Services. This is started automatically even though many/most people don't need it. Try stopping/disabling it and watch your disk light go quiet. |
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willyjack
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I hope he meant 2 Gigs.  |
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Aframe
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said by srr2 :It's lsass.exe. There's nothing you can do about turning off lsass.exe however because it's a core system component. However, you're not totally out of luck. lsass.exe is simply a victim of this annoyance. The real culprit is Terminal Services. This is started automatically even though many/most people don't need it. Try stopping/disabling it and watch your disk light go quiet. That did not stop it, but thanks for the reply.
/Frank |
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bcastner
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| It is not lsass.exe, nor Terminal Services.
If XP or Vista had an issue with constantly flashing hard drive lights, you would hear about it constantly from the user community.
Terminal Services is used for Remote Desktop Host responsibilities, and is a dependent service for FUS. It is unlikely you have either in use; but even if so, it would not cause a constantly flickering drive light.
The only time I have seen anything remotely like this was two weeks ago when I removed a Delf infection from two different computers; and several years ago when the case light connector lead for the hard drive was wrongly connected on the motherboard to the wrong header.
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KingWaffle
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My activity light used to do that too...
I eventually accepted its normal. |
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Aframe
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said by bcastner :Good idea, as there is a Delf variant going around right now that causes this exact behavior. Thanks..
I am in the process of doing a complete reinstall now. Waiting for install to format the drive. Wish me luck. Will see if that stops it.
later /Frank
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said by bcastner :It is not lsass.exe, nor Terminal Services. If XP or Vista had an issue with constantly flashing hard drive lights, you would hear about it constantly from the user community. If you Google "XP flashing [disk|drive] light" you'll find page after page after page of complaints. It's common. It was happening on both my Dell notebooks (driving me bonkers) until I disabled Terminal Services, and then it stopped. That is the simple fact. Open taskmgr on any XP installation and watch lsass tick up bytes written and bytes read, second by second. I'm not saying that it's the only cause of the constant flashing, but it's definitely the cause of some of it. |
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bcastner
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| You raise an interesting possibility.
What PerfMon settings did you have enabled? If you enabled logging of TCP/IP, or some other performance item, I could easily see disk activity happening on a regular basis.
After all, you told it to do so. |
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srr2
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Bethlehem, PA | Hmmmmm Very interesting thought. I have the network tab "always active". Do you suppose.... |
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Aframe
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said by Aframe :said by bcastner :Good idea, as there is a Delf variant going around right now that causes this exact behavior. Thanks.. I am in the process of doing a complete reinstall now. Waiting for install to format the drive. Wish me luck. Will see if that stops it. later /Frank Well.. Did a full format and installed xp pro w/ sp3 slip streamed with auto streamer. Rebooted the computor three or four times. The light is still flashing sitting at the desktop with nothing loaded..
Guess some things are just meant to be.
/Frank
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