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"HH" wrote:
Only one way to know for sure. Remove the card. That was going to be the next possibility I raised - network accessing the drive. If it's just querrying the hardware, it's probably doing no harm. HH I'll live with the disk access for a while, rather than remove the card for now. -DK "Dennis Kessler" wrote "HH" wrote: Every 4 seconds?? Hmmm. Might try this: 1. Hit start, Run and type "msconfig" (without quotes) and hit OK. 2.Select the Startup tab. 3. Uncheck everything except Explorer and Systray. Exit msconfig and reboot. See if the LED still flickers. If not, go back to msconfig and recheck the boxes, one at a time, rebooting after each. This will tell you what is querrying the HD. HH I've done that. BTW: I did put a D-Link wirless PCI card in the machine. I wonder if that's causing the disk access. I don't really see how to turned it off, without completely removing either the hardware or the drivers. I don't see the router's access point statistics change relative to the sick access, so it's probably not the wireless card. -Dennis "Dennis Kessler" wrote "HH" wrote: With AIN active, the HD LED will flicker about once per second. HH It's not that. I did disable it. The flicker is about every 4 seconds. -DK "Dennis Kessler" wrote "HH" wrote: Right click on any CD-ROM drives in Device Manager and select Properties, then the Advanced tab. HH Oh! BTW: the mail stoppped. Not sure which change did that. Now just to run down the disk access. I'll try the CD tab, but I doubt that that's accounting for the excessive dick access. Thanks. -DK "Dennis Kessler" wrote "HH" wrote: If so, disabling Auto-Insert Notification in Device Manager should fix it. HH I don't see "Auto-Insert Notification in Device Manager" in the device manager in the pc that I am sitting next to (not the one with the problem). Is it on every Windows 98 machine? -Dennis "doS" wrote The disk activity may be your cd roms ...Windows checks the cdrom status regularly... "Dennis Kessler" wrote How can I stop the mail and constant hard drive activity? Everytime the Presario 5170, running Windows 98 is booted up, the computer tries to send an email. I can see this activity on my router's log file. No mail programs are running. Nothing is queued to be sent. This began yesterday, (I think, after fiddling with the internet keyboard buttons). Prior to yesterday, I had the startup configuration in msconfig, set to not load the Compaq startup software that controls the keyboard buttons. Also, I see the hard drive light showing regular activity every several seconds, no matter how long the computer is idle. The disk activity is not the fast find program. I have that set to stop. -Dennis -- Dennis Kessler http://denniskessler.com/acupuncture |
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