A7V133 Harddrive light on?

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Recently my harddrive activity light has been staying lit solid after
boot up. It doesn't effect machine performance it just stays lit. The
only thing that makes it work normally again is to put the computer
into standby then wake it up. Is this a sign of impending failure of
something?
TIA
TDaddy

Asus A7V133 rev 1.05 (no extra dot)
1.2 ghz.
512 meg. ram
bios rev. 1005
WinXP
 
Hi

Uzytkownik "Tdaddy said:
Recently my harddrive activity light has been staying lit solid after
boot up. It doesn't effect machine performance it just stays lit. The
only thing that makes it work normally again is to put the computer
into standby then wake it up. Is this a sign of impending failure of
something?
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I don't think it's some failure. Try reversing the hdd-led connector on
mobo.
 
Tdaddy said:
Recently my harddrive activity light has been staying lit solid after
boot up. It doesn't effect machine performance it just stays lit. The
only thing that makes it work normally again is to put the computer
into standby then wake it up. Is this a sign of impending failure of
something?
TIA
TDaddy

Asus A7V133 rev 1.05 (no extra dot)
1.2 ghz.
512 meg. ram
bios rev. 1005
WinXP
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I have no idea what that means, but maybe if the drive supports
SMART, you should run one of those utilities that lists the
SMART statistics. Maybe the drive is having trouble reading the
current track it is positioned over. A further sign of that, would
be the persistent click-click-click as the drive tries to find
track zero and then return to the current track and retry the
read.

In any case, at the first sign of trouble, do a backup
of the disk, before it is too late. I got a warning once from
a disk, and decided it was late and time to head off to bed.
I turned off the drive (it was an external) and when I powered
up the next morning, it was dead. If I had backed it up while
it was still alive (it was still perfectly readable at that
point), I wouldn't have lost everything on the drive. My last
backup of that drive turned out to be 2 years old :-(

HTH,
Paul
 
-DraconuS- said:
Hi




I don't think it's some failure. Try reversing the hdd-led connector on
mobo.
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Won't help. If it's wrongly connected, the led will never light up.
I don't think it indicates a problem - at least I hope so, my board does
exactly the same since about a year... (Not sure since when it does it
exactly, I know it didn't do it when it was brand new, it might do it
since a bios update, a hd change or even some bios setting change -
never bothered to figure out the exact cause).

Roland
 
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