My HDD activity light is permanently on.....

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deebee

Can anyone help.

I have installed from a clean installation a Maxtor 6Y080M0 on a MSI
915p combo MOBO, during the install of WIN XP the activity light was
flashing now it's permanently 'on'. I've searched for an answer but
alas none.

Please advise.
 
Can anyone help.

I have installed from a clean installation a Maxtor 6Y080M0 on a MSI
915p combo MOBO, during the install of WIN XP the activity light was
flashing now it's permanently 'on'. I've searched for an answer but
alas none.
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Maybe you connected the HD LED backwards on the
motherboard?
 
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Can anyone help.

I have installed from a clean installation a Maxtor 6Y080M0 on a MSI
915p combo MOBO, during the install of WIN XP the activity light was
flashing now it's permanently 'on'. I've searched for an answer but
alas none.
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Are there any other IDE devices on the computer. Double check all
cable and POWER connections. I had a stuck-on light happen when I had
accidentally unplugged the power on my CD-ROM drive while changing
HDD's. I realized it when I noticed it no longer showed up in Explorer!
 
Andrew,

Well spotted!! My previous board was a Gigabyte which allowed me to
connect 8 devices as IDE, the new board will only see 6 IDE - 2 SATA
each a with slave (SATA) and 2 IDE/ATAPI 1 master with slave. I had
plugged everything back in on the new board ( Didn't bother to
really look at the devices in Explorer,
won't make that mistake again!) but the BIOS only recognised the 2
SATA drives and the CDRW and DVD drives it ignored the ZIP drive, the
ZIP drive signal was still streaming onto the IDE bus hence the
light...................Now I can see the HDD activity.

Thanks to you and Toshi1873 for the replies.

:D DeeBee
 
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