This may sound a bit pathetic but…

The orange light that indicates hard disk activity and the audible ‘click’ each time the hard disk is read happen every single second (maybe every 2 seconds) while my TR1S (Thailand version) is on - even when nothing is happening and no programs are running.

I thought it may be the system paging stuff out to the page file so I set Windows not to have a page file - and it still does it. I have no messaging software or other ‘background’ apps running. It would suggest something is being logged, but nothing of that sort is running. Its not a virus afaik - Norton 2004 has no complaints.

Its a small thing, but annoying at night when I leave the PC on and can hear it in the hotel room (plus I have to turn the PC away from the bed to prevent the orange flashing…).

A more real concern is that the hard disk should spin down when not in use, i.e. reading movies from memory stick, but it doesn’t which is a waste of battery. The orange flashing can also be annoying when watching a movie, but its easy to cover up.

Any thoughts on what might be causing this?  :?:

Thanks!

If I were you, I’d check for spyware with something like Spybot S&D . But I’m not.

Another good program to run is AdAware.  It is another spywear program. Good luck.

[quote author=“bhosty”]This may sound a bit pathetic but…

The orange light that indicates hard disk activity and the audible ‘click’ each time the hard disk is read happen every single second (maybe every 2 seconds) while my TR1S (Thailand version) is on - even when nothing is happening and no programs are running.

I thought it may be the system paging stuff out to the page file so I set Windows not to have a page file - and it still does it. I have no messaging software or other ‘background’ apps running. It would suggest something is being logged, but nothing of that sort is running. Its not a virus afaik - Norton 2004 has no complaints.

Its a small thing, but annoying at night when I leave the PC on and can hear it in the hotel room (plus I have to turn the PC away from the bed to prevent the orange flashing…).

A more real concern is that the hard disk should spin down when not in use, i.e. reading movies from memory stick, but it doesn’t which is a waste of battery. The orange flashing can also be annoying when watching a movie, but its easy to cover up.

Any thoughts on what might be causing this?  :?:

Thanks!

Mine does this too, even with 1GB of memory.  I suspect it’s some kind of file indexing service like the one that comes with MS Office, but I haven’t had a chance to look into it yet.

Let us know if you find the cure.

Mine does this as well.  I ran spybot and adware, but it didn’t seem to do anything.  It doesn’t seem to affect performance, but it is a little annoying.

It’s really a “feature” of Windows XP. Even when you have lots of RAM, Windows XP periodically writes stuff to the hard disk even when idle so there’s not much you can do about it.

it happended right here,too. at first it scared me but after i read what groovy wrote, that made me feel better.