hard drive light always on?
hard drive light always on?
I have been having a problem with G400, dual hd display and win2000 pro.
I have been having crashes possibly related to my vid card.
However, I just noticed that prior to the "crashes" my hard drive light remains on at all times, during and after boot-up?
I have 2 drives, each on a different channel (IDE 0 and IDE 1), 0 containes dual-boot 98SE/2000 Pro plus video editing software and IDE 1 is only for video capture files. Both are ata drives, 7200 rpm, etc.,.
What causes the drive light to remain on? Drive is constantly spinning, being accessed by?
Please help, this may or may not be my "crash" problem?
Regards,
jaybird
I have been having crashes possibly related to my vid card.
However, I just noticed that prior to the "crashes" my hard drive light remains on at all times, during and after boot-up?
I have 2 drives, each on a different channel (IDE 0 and IDE 1), 0 containes dual-boot 98SE/2000 Pro plus video editing software and IDE 1 is only for video capture files. Both are ata drives, 7200 rpm, etc.,.
What causes the drive light to remain on? Drive is constantly spinning, being accessed by?
Please help, this may or may not be my "crash" problem?
Regards,
jaybird
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1. running out of disk space where the swap file is trying to grow / shrink
2. needs a defrag
3. back door program is sending spam email
4. hdd is dying in one spot and the system is trying to access some data over and over and over
5. microsoft's office indexing program
do you have taskinfo or similar, check what's running
http://www.iarsn.com/archive/tskinf40.zip get the older tskinf40.exe, it's easier to read
2. needs a defrag
3. back door program is sending spam email
4. hdd is dying in one spot and the system is trying to access some data over and over and over
5. microsoft's office indexing program
do you have taskinfo or similar, check what's running
http://www.iarsn.com/archive/tskinf40.zip get the older tskinf40.exe, it's easier to read
1. have defragged
2. Swap file is infinate - 60 gig
3. No, no "task info" type software running
4. All utilities say hard drive ok
NOTE: doesn't always do it but is becoming more common, Re: used to only do it a little, now does it most of the time on startup or reboot.
Of interest, video problems seem related to hard drive light, Re: light on, video will crap out, system crash, hard drive light off, not likely?
ideas please!
Gigabyte dual PIII board, dual 1100 PIII's, Apollo Pro 133 chip set (yeah, I know, problems!), 1 gig of P133 SDRAM, 98SE/2000 Pro dual boot, G400 32meg dual hd vid card, SBLive 5.1 Platinum sound card.
Latest Matrox BIOS, drivers and latest Via 4 in 1 drivers.
Yes I know that this is not a BP6 problem but everyone here has been so supportive in all areas I thought I would ask! (OBTW, have BP6, dual 1100E PIII's @ 110mhz, stable for 2 years!)
Regards,
jaybird
2. Swap file is infinate - 60 gig
3. No, no "task info" type software running
4. All utilities say hard drive ok
NOTE: doesn't always do it but is becoming more common, Re: used to only do it a little, now does it most of the time on startup or reboot.
Of interest, video problems seem related to hard drive light, Re: light on, video will crap out, system crash, hard drive light off, not likely?
ideas please!
Gigabyte dual PIII board, dual 1100 PIII's, Apollo Pro 133 chip set (yeah, I know, problems!), 1 gig of P133 SDRAM, 98SE/2000 Pro dual boot, G400 32meg dual hd vid card, SBLive 5.1 Platinum sound card.
Latest Matrox BIOS, drivers and latest Via 4 in 1 drivers.
Yes I know that this is not a BP6 problem but everyone here has been so supportive in all areas I thought I would ask! (OBTW, have BP6, dual 1100E PIII's @ 110mhz, stable for 2 years!)
Regards,
jaybird
Did everything but still on!
Ok, I did everything including filemon.exe. Neat little program, told me "DKService.exe" was running at all times (I shut everything down), even after I had deleted it (an Executive software product for managing your hard drives, works great, better than any MS product!), I still have the drive light on!
I have defragged, scanned, etc., all seems well except that my secondary drive (60 gig Maxtor) won't stop spinning! I have no programs running that I know of on this drive. I use it just for temp. storage of large AVI and mpeg2 files for video editing.
I just remembered that I am using it for my swap file, could that be it since my OS's (98SE/2000 Pro) are on one drive and my swap file is on a different physical drive it is accessing it at all times?
I can't check it right now, I'm at work 45 miles away from my PC.
Out of idea's, anyone else got any?
Regards,
jaybird
I have defragged, scanned, etc., all seems well except that my secondary drive (60 gig Maxtor) won't stop spinning! I have no programs running that I know of on this drive. I use it just for temp. storage of large AVI and mpeg2 files for video editing.
I just remembered that I am using it for my swap file, could that be it since my OS's (98SE/2000 Pro) are on one drive and my swap file is on a different physical drive it is accessing it at all times?
I can't check it right now, I'm at work 45 miles away from my PC.
Out of idea's, anyone else got any?
Regards,
jaybird
Indexing Service - shows up in Services list as cisvc.exe and cidaemon.exe.
(Though that usually only runs when harddrives have been idle for a while).
First thing I'd do is change the IDE cable to the drive.
(Though that usually only runs when harddrives have been idle for a while).
First thing I'd do is change the IDE cable to the drive.
On a torpedo to Hell
ASRock 939 Dual Sata II mobo--2x 2200+--2GB RAM--ATI x800XL--2x Seagate Cheetah 15K.3s on LSI 20160 HBA--WD 400GB Caviar RE2, Maxtor 300GB, 3x Maxtor 120+ GB = 1.1TB storage--Sony Dru-820A DVDRW--Diamond Xtreme 7.1 sound--Win XP
ASRock 939 Dual Sata II mobo--2x 2200+--2GB RAM--ATI x800XL--2x Seagate Cheetah 15K.3s on LSI 20160 HBA--WD 400GB Caviar RE2, Maxtor 300GB, 3x Maxtor 120+ GB = 1.1TB storage--Sony Dru-820A DVDRW--Diamond Xtreme 7.1 sound--Win XP
Sorry 'bout tripple post, email is acting goofy. Waited for 5 min. and still no response.
To answer your question, windoz shows a full 1 gig of ram installed.
I have run every stress test I can throw at it and when it boots correctly it is rock stable (6 hrs of nonstop stress testing cpu's, video, sound, cd drives, floppy drive and ram).
I know that there are "issues" with Via chipsets and Matrox vid cards but I can never get it to repeat on a regular basis.
Regards,
jaybird
To answer your question, windoz shows a full 1 gig of ram installed.
I have run every stress test I can throw at it and when it boots correctly it is rock stable (6 hrs of nonstop stress testing cpu's, video, sound, cd drives, floppy drive and ram).
I know that there are "issues" with Via chipsets and Matrox vid cards but I can never get it to repeat on a regular basis.
Regards,
jaybird
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how about ....
my computer that wouldn't post, but when it did, it worked fine, sort of, until it didn't.
while it worked fine, the voltages all showed fine.
it was, bad psu, i think the fan actually.....
with no fan, it heats up and fails, until you hit the reset button and then it works sort of ... ??
so, when it's good it is very very good, and when it's bad, blame something...
tried a new PSU ?
my computer that wouldn't post, but when it did, it worked fine, sort of, until it didn't.
while it worked fine, the voltages all showed fine.
it was, bad psu, i think the fan actually.....
with no fan, it heats up and fails, until you hit the reset button and then it works sort of ... ??
so, when it's good it is very very good, and when it's bad, blame something...
tried a new PSU ?
I have already thought of that. The PS is new (one month old) and being monitored by MBM5 AS WELL AS real time external digital volt meter.
The next step will be wave form monitoring of the actual power source (line voltage).
The one thing I haven't tried yet is a MS Tool called Dumpchk.exe that allows you to read the memory dump files as to what halted the operation of the PC.
I'm in the process of learning how to use the tool as well as create more detailed memory dump logs.
Regards,
jaybird
The next step will be wave form monitoring of the actual power source (line voltage).
The one thing I haven't tried yet is a MS Tool called Dumpchk.exe that allows you to read the memory dump files as to what halted the operation of the PC.
I'm in the process of learning how to use the tool as well as create more detailed memory dump logs.
Regards,
jaybird
Hmm, now that I read more fully how your drives were set up, I noticed that the second drive has large avi's on it. Windows by default tries to preview avi files and can cause problems if the AVI is not "perfect."
Worth a shot:
Delete the key "InProcServer32" from
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\
Backup your registry first, of course. I've done this myself and it has prevented Windows Explorer from hanging on malformed AVI's for me.
Oh, I'd also try moving the swap file to the first drive and see how that affects things.
The only side effect of this will be (Windows Explorer will now longer show a preview of an avi in a pane).
Worth a shot:
Delete the key "InProcServer32" from
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\
Backup your registry first, of course. I've done this myself and it has prevented Windows Explorer from hanging on malformed AVI's for me.
Oh, I'd also try moving the swap file to the first drive and see how that affects things.
The only side effect of this will be (Windows Explorer will now longer show a preview of an avi in a pane).
On a torpedo to Hell
ASRock 939 Dual Sata II mobo--2x 2200+--2GB RAM--ATI x800XL--2x Seagate Cheetah 15K.3s on LSI 20160 HBA--WD 400GB Caviar RE2, Maxtor 300GB, 3x Maxtor 120+ GB = 1.1TB storage--Sony Dru-820A DVDRW--Diamond Xtreme 7.1 sound--Win XP
ASRock 939 Dual Sata II mobo--2x 2200+--2GB RAM--ATI x800XL--2x Seagate Cheetah 15K.3s on LSI 20160 HBA--WD 400GB Caviar RE2, Maxtor 300GB, 3x Maxtor 120+ GB = 1.1TB storage--Sony Dru-820A DVDRW--Diamond Xtreme 7.1 sound--Win XP
Try swap video cards if you think there is a connection...Or simpelest of all...try boot up in safe mode and see what happens.
As far as the swap file...
If you have one GIG of physical ram you should be able(temporarialy) to set the swap size to 0 maximum and be able to boot up and try run a few minor tasks or applications. That will tell you if it is swap usage related. Jeez, I use 256 physical ram and 512meg swap and get along fine with anything I do on W2K PRO. I don't do anything complex like video editing though.
good luck
As far as the swap file...
If you have one GIG of physical ram you should be able(temporarialy) to set the swap size to 0 maximum and be able to boot up and try run a few minor tasks or applications. That will tell you if it is swap usage related. Jeez, I use 256 physical ram and 512meg swap and get along fine with anything I do on W2K PRO. I don't do anything complex like video editing though.
good luck
There are *almost* no bad BP6s. There are mostly bad caps.
No BP6s remaining
Athlon 2800
Sempron 2000
ViaCPU laptop with Vista.(Works great after bumping ram to 2Gig)
P-III 850@100
No BP6s remaining
Athlon 2800
Sempron 2000
ViaCPU laptop with Vista.(Works great after bumping ram to 2Gig)
P-III 850@100
I think the hard drive light is on because at the moment the system is crashing, windows is attempting to dump the log to the hard drive.
http://labmice.techtarget.com/troublesh ... ydumps.htm
Oh, and a good bootable memory tester is memtest or memtest86, google it up, download, burn the image, boot from it, and run to test memory thoroughly.
There is also a bootable version of winPE:
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/, boots you into a windows environment right from CD, and has many preinstalled utilities to help figure out what is wrong. Totally bypasses the HD in case of virii, spyware, bad sectors, etc.
http://labmice.techtarget.com/troublesh ... ydumps.htm
Oh, and a good bootable memory tester is memtest or memtest86, google it up, download, burn the image, boot from it, and run to test memory thoroughly.
There is also a bootable version of winPE:
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/, boots you into a windows environment right from CD, and has many preinstalled utilities to help figure out what is wrong. Totally bypasses the HD in case of virii, spyware, bad sectors, etc.
Dual Barton Mobile 1.8ghz
Venice 3000+ @ 2.6ghz
lots of BP6s and two VP6s all apart currently
Venice 3000+ @ 2.6ghz
lots of BP6s and two VP6s all apart currently
Please read, the system is NOT crashing!
HDD light stays on from the moment the power swith is turned on until shutdown and power off is completed!
Prior to "something" , not sure what or I would fix it!, the HDD light would ONLY be on when the drive was being accessed, now it is constant.
Regards,
jaybird
HDD light stays on from the moment the power swith is turned on until shutdown and power off is completed!
Prior to "something" , not sure what or I would fix it!, the HDD light would ONLY be on when the drive was being accessed, now it is constant.
Regards,
jaybird
Just for something to try, run with a CD in the drive... audio CD, game CD, DVD (if a DVD drive), and see if that helps. I have one computer that I have a HD led problem unless a disc is in the drive. Weird I know, but it works.
Dual Barton Mobile 1.8ghz
Venice 3000+ @ 2.6ghz
lots of BP6s and two VP6s all apart currently
Venice 3000+ @ 2.6ghz
lots of BP6s and two VP6s all apart currently