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    Help: Why HDD light flashes when computer is idle?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by LouArnold, May 8, 2009.

  1. LouArnold

    LouArnold Notebook Consultant

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    I know the computer is never really idle, but something causes the HDD light to flash at about 1-2 per second, even after some minutes of inactivity on my part. What is it doing and can/should it be stopped?
     
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  2. kiriakost

    kiriakost Notebook Deity

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    There is plenty reasons for HDD activity on idle .

    It could be caused by the anti virus software , or even some modern ACER laptops, support even degrag on idle .

    Vista its known to cause HDD activity , as part of control over the windows swap file .

    You can isolate the guilty application , but needs some knowledge over windows , and the right tools .
     
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    This IS Vista of a very recent model Acer, but the firewall is disabled and the AV software removed. I would think that after a while the indexing software would run out of things to do. I somehow doubt that updating timers makes that HDD flicker.
     
    LouArnold, May 8, 2009
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