HDD activity

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Hi Folks,

I just did a clean install of VHP on the following new system:

MB: ECS NFORCE4M-A
CPU: Athlon 64 X2 3800+
MEM: (2) SpecTek 1GB PC5300 DDR2 667Mhz
HDDs: Two WD2500JS SATA

I have the memory sticks installed in the A1 & B1 slots, which are the
orange slots, The A2 & B2 purple slots are empty. During bootup the
screen displays: CPU0 Memory Information: Dual Channel, 128-bit.
Does this sound like I got the memory right?

When the computer is sitting idle, the HDD activity light flashes
about once per second. Is this normal behavior, or might it indicate
some type of problem?

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Ken
 
Hi Folks,

I just did a clean install of VHP on the following new system:

MB: ECS NFORCE4M-A
CPU: Athlon 64 X2 3800+
MEM: (2) SpecTek 1GB PC5300 DDR2 667Mhz
HDDs: Two WD2500JS SATA

I have the memory sticks installed in the A1 & B1 slots, which are
the orange slots, The A2 & B2 purple slots are empty. During
bootup the screen displays: CPU0 Memory Information: Dual Channel,
128-bit. Does this sound like I got the memory right?
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Yes, that's oké
When the computer is sitting idle, the HDD activity light flashes
about once per second. Is this normal behavior, or might it indicate
some type of problem?
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No, it's Vista doing some indexing on you drives. If you have Vista
running for some time this will stop.

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This is normal, things like Superfetch and search indexing are all running
in the background and tend to not interfere too much until the machine is
idel, its normal for your drive to seem like it is doing loads of work.
Don't worry about it.
 
kjk said:
Hi Folks,

I just did a clean install of VHP on the following new system:

MB: ECS NFORCE4M-A
CPU: Athlon 64 X2 3800+
MEM: (2) SpecTek 1GB PC5300 DDR2 667Mhz
HDDs: Two WD2500JS SATA

I have the memory sticks installed in the A1 & B1 slots, which are the
orange slots, The A2 & B2 purple slots are empty. During bootup the
screen displays: CPU0 Memory Information: Dual Channel, 128-bit.
Does this sound like I got the memory right?

When the computer is sitting idle, the HDD activity light flashes
about once per second. Is this normal behavior, or might it indicate
some type of problem?

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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If you want to see what's writing to the disk, go to Start | type in
Performance, up pops Reliability and Performance Monitor at the top. Run
that and in the right pane expand the disk and cpu sections to see what
processes are accessing what files.
 
kjk said:
Hi Folks,

I just did a clean install of VHP on the following new system:

MB: ECS NFORCE4M-A
CPU: Athlon 64 X2 3800+
MEM: (2) SpecTek 1GB PC5300 DDR2 667Mhz
HDDs: Two WD2500JS SATA

I have the memory sticks installed in the A1 & B1 slots, which are the
orange slots, The A2 & B2 purple slots are empty. During bootup the
screen displays: CPU0 Memory Information: Dual Channel, 128-bit.
Does this sound like I got the memory right?

When the computer is sitting idle, the HDD activity light flashes
about once per second. Is this normal behavior, or might it indicate
some type of problem?

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Ken
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Yes, you got the memory right - dual channel 128bit. One cause for the hard
drive activity is Vista indexing in the background to speed up file
searching.
 
I had the same problem with a newly built system. Besides the indexing,
etc. that other folks have mentioned here, and which involve actual
reading or writing on the HDD, there is another factor that causes the
HDD LED to flash about once per second: Vista is checking your CD/DVD
drives(s) for the presence of disks. A poster informed me that this had
been an issue of annoyance to many since Win95 or so, but I had never
encountered it before until Vista. The proof to me was that, after
unplugging both of my DVD burners, the HDD LED blinking stopped.

This blinking HDD LED business had me really worried for awhile,
especially after noticing that it continued to occur even when no known
reading/writing was being done on the HDD. Since it never seemed to end
and became a serious annoyance, I ended up having to just mask off the LED.
 
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