- Mar 21, 2010
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Title pretty much explains it all. My hard drive light continuously blinks exactly once every second, even when the computer is left idle for hours...
As far as I know, nothing is accessing my hard drive and it does not appear to affect my performance but I could be wrong.
I've tried disabling all non-essential processes and services as well as a complete system reformat. It's happening in safe mode and from what I remember, during the initial Windows setup procedure but I'm not 100% sure on that.
One interesting thing to note, on very rare occasions, the light will stop flashing. After that, it only flashes when accessing the hard drive, the way it was intended. This happened maybe 2-3 times last year. Upon restarting my computer, the hard drive light goes right back to flashing once per second.
This has been happening since day one when I first bought this computer and I have opened forum topics about it before but with no luck. A year later, I thought I might try again.
Anyone have any ideas on why this is happening and/or how I can stop my hard drive light from blinking continuously (aside from unplugging the power to the light). My deepest gratitude goes out to the person who can solve this for me cause honestly, it's annoying and it makes monitoring hard drive activity difficult. Not really expecting a fix though, google search results have left me with nothing but dead ends and no responses.
As far as I know, nothing is accessing my hard drive and it does not appear to affect my performance but I could be wrong.
I've tried disabling all non-essential processes and services as well as a complete system reformat. It's happening in safe mode and from what I remember, during the initial Windows setup procedure but I'm not 100% sure on that.
One interesting thing to note, on very rare occasions, the light will stop flashing. After that, it only flashes when accessing the hard drive, the way it was intended. This happened maybe 2-3 times last year. Upon restarting my computer, the hard drive light goes right back to flashing once per second.
This has been happening since day one when I first bought this computer and I have opened forum topics about it before but with no luck. A year later, I thought I might try again.
Anyone have any ideas on why this is happening and/or how I can stop my hard drive light from blinking continuously (aside from unplugging the power to the light). My deepest gratitude goes out to the person who can solve this for me cause honestly, it's annoying and it makes monitoring hard drive activity difficult. Not really expecting a fix though, google search results have left me with nothing but dead ends and no responses.
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