Secondary HD

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Mother Farquhar

My secondary HD has started to turn itself on (which I don't mind because it
did that now and again anyway) but it's just that it won't turn itself off
anymore. This is despite the fact that in Power Saving I have set it to turn
off after 3 minutes. This never happened before. Has anyone any ideas?

Thanks
 
Mother said:
My secondary HD has started to turn itself on (which I don't mind
because it did that now and again anyway) but it's just that it won't
turn itself off anymore. This is despite the fact that in Power Saving
I have set it to turn off after 3 minutes. This never happened before.
Has anyone any ideas?

Thanks
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Something running in the background that originates on the second hard
drive? Only you can tell what is running on your computer. Do
clean-boot troubleshooting to determine this:

Clean Boot - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=310353
and How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP -
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560

Malke
 
Hi, Mom.

Dust bunnies?

I'm not kidding. I can't see your rig, so my question may be wholly
inappropriate. But dust and lint can collect around exposed pins and, it
time, form a large enough ball to cause a short-circuit. Maybe not a solid
electrical connection, but just enough to cause mysterious phenomena. :>(

(That's my theory as to why my DIMM socket shorted out a few months ago,
permanently burning the DIMM's little gold fingers. A new DIMM still worked
fine in the other sockets, but I retired the motherboard, anyhow.)

RC
 
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