Hard drive light keeps flashing!

Anything I do on this machine, the HD lights barley goes out. It just keeps flashing. I think it is what slowing my machine down. When i am playing a game, I get laggy fps and what not and I think it is the HD slowing it downs. Even when the machine is doing nothing the HD light is solid. I ran the HP HD tests and it found no issues. My "File searching index" for vista is turned off. I have enable write chaching and enable advance proformance enabled. Any ideas? I am getting pissed off with this becasue it really laggs my system down. It is a decent system when it works right..lol

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well check the background process in task manager and see anything that unusual also disable automatic disk defrag.......scan for viruses......also use malwarebytes........update it first..... hope this helps good luck

 

If it's Vista, it might be due to the Windows Search indexing your files. You can disable this from the services UI, which will also speed your laptop a lot. If you don't use it that is.

 

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I have no viruses/Malware on the machine. Search index is off, the only thing i can see being a bit off in task manager is svchost.exe, which is using 130,516k of memory and on average 4-5% cpu on idel. Also, I have to mention, I was having this issue and I completed a fulll system recovery, and still have this issue. All windows updates are completed, except for SP2. One windows update Realtek LAN driver will not install properly from windows update. I have the latest bios update also.

 

let me think hmmmm.....have u tried disabling services u dont need....try to put your ear close to where the hard drive is to hear if the hard drive is being accessed ..........it may also be that the system is spending excessive time writing to the page file.....

 

well it could be the case, however, I had this issue and then completed a system recovery (quick format) so, if settings where messed up from before defaults should of been enabled. I have desabled many services that are not needed. I am just confused as to why this is happening? Is it vista for some godaful reason? or is it the drive it self? I am willing to o out and buy a new 7200 rpm 320GB notebook drive to replace this one since it is driving me crazy..

 

Also, I have to add, that when i turned off my laptop today, and picked it up, i had a smell of the CPU/System fan vent area. It smelt like it was burnt wires or something.. really odd. Anyway, I can't see this as being normal.. anyone have any thoughts on this ?

 

have u opened it to see if their is any burned wires my vent smells like burning wires to but u should make sure open it to see if their is any burned wire might cause a a BIG problem later in the future....hope u still have warranty