Help! HDD little red light stays on!
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From: Peter Jason on 10 Dec 2009 22:22 Why? Please help, P
From: Jeff Strickland on 10 Dec 2009 22:24 "Peter Jason" <pj(a)jostle.com> wrote in message news:9L6dnYwEu-BqJ7zWnZ2dnUVZ_uWdnZ2d(a)netspace.net.au... > Why? > It's running.
From: Paul on 10 Dec 2009 23:31 Peter Jason wrote: > Why? > > Please help, P > It does that on mine, but only when the screensaver is running. And it doesn't stop immediately when I move the mouse and the screensaver goes away. I expect it is a bug in the driver for the chipset and storage interfaces. It has been present since the day I got my system. About ten seconds after coming back from the screen saver, the light goes out. And then blinks as it is supposed to, whenever the IDE drive is accessed. So mine is related to the ACPI state associated with the running of the screensaver. I don't think mine does that, when I'm running Linux. My chipset is VIA and the Southbridge is VT8237S. If you *never* see the LED flash at all, even once, the LED cable could be connected to the wrong two pins. If someone has been playing around, and moved cables on the PANEL header, I suppose something like that could happen. Paul
From: JD on 11 Dec 2009 04:24 Peter Jason wrote: > Why? > > Please help, P > > Hi there As Jeff and Paul say the drive may be in use if you built it yourself connecting the power button to the IO panel you may have put the "PWR Switch" wires in the wrong way round which will cause the light to come on when the drive is NOT in use and off when it is. JD
From: Jeff Strickland on 11 Dec 2009 11:38
"JD" <No.Reply(a)Sorry.com> wrote in message news:4b220f72$0$2535$da0feed9(a)news.zen.co.uk... > Peter Jason wrote: >> Why? >> >> Please help, P > > Hi there > > As Jeff and Paul say the drive may be in use if you built it yourself > connecting the power button to the IO panel you may have put the "PWR > Switch" wires in the wrong way round which will cause the light to come on > when the drive is NOT in use and off when it is. > > JD While is certainly possible that the lights are switched, if it wasw true that they were switched, then the Power light should be blinking to indicate that the HDD is being read. The HDD light is supposed to blink on a random schedule as data is being read, if the light is on continuously then something is making a call to the HDD causing it to read data all of the time. If the HDD lighth is on steady and the Power light is blinking, then my money is on the connectors being switched. If the connectors are switched and the machine is Home Built, maybe one should give consideration to not building any more computers. |