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    Question to all thinkpad owners. Does your HD led blink every 4-5 seconds ?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by mmargolis, Sep 10, 2006.

  1. mmargolis

    mmargolis Notebook Enthusiast

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    Basically that's the question - when on idle, do you observe some
    constant harddisk activity ? Some processes are writing to a disk
    every 4 seconds or so. It's very annoying and I'm wondering if
    I'm the only one who has this problem.
    I have WinXP Home, 1gig of RAM and it's T60p.
    Thanks.

    ps. I don't have any viruses or spyware/malware.
     
    mmargolis, Sep 10, 2006
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Yeah. I get it on my T43. Still can't figure out what process is doing it.

    And you can't ever be SURE you don't have viruses/spyware/malware if you've ever connected to the internet ;) Different virus scanners detect different numbers and types of viruses.
     
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    mujtaba ZzzZzz Super Moderator

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    You say XP and then ask why...
    It's pretty normal,
    IT happens on all the notebook/pcs I have ever seen...
     
    mujtaba, Sep 10, 2006
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    mmargolis Notebook Enthusiast

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    ok.. fine.. actually it's my first notebook, so that's why
    I'm asking. With desktop under the table you don't really
    know what kind of harddisk activity is going on. With a
    notebook on your laps it's much more obvious.
    I know it' svchost.exe who is writing to repository.
    Well, I guess you are right - XP.. that says it all :)
    But I still don't regred on choosing Thinkpad over MacBook :)
     
    mmargolis, Sep 10, 2006
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