srr2
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Re: [XP Pro] Hard drive light flashing
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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| 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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srr2
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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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