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    Power 4 Gear HDD Time Out

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Rosemarycane, Mar 22, 2007.

  1. Rosemarycane

    Rosemarycane Notebook Consultant

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    I have an Asus w3j. When running on battery or AC, the HDD time out setting in power 4 gear never works. Even though it is set for 3 minutes on battery, the HDD light continues to blink.

    Is this normal, or is there something I am missing?
     
    Rosemarycane, Mar 22, 2007
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  2. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Due to some 'smart' implementation of some Windows services or power management 'features' (I don't know which) the HDD will be accessed by WinXP once every few seconds. I tried for a while to get rid of this but I couldn't.

    So the HDD will never stay idle long enough to spin down... Sorry about that.
     
    E.B.E., Mar 23, 2007
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