Ed Durrant wrote:
> Jim Showalter wrote:
>> Ever since I finished upgrading my laptop to an 80GB hard drive from a 
>> 40GB drive a couple of months ago, I have the weird circumstance where 
>> the light which indicates HDD activity will come on and stay on solid 
>> until I do something which requires access to the drive, at which time 
>> the light will flicker during the access and go out after the access is 
>> completed. It will then stay off for a while if no further activity, 
>> then come on solid again until further disk activity.
>>
>> Anyone have a clue as to what could be happening? Is there some utility 
>> that can monitor disk access so I can see whether maybe something 
>> unsuspected is really accessing the drive?
>>
>>   
> Is it possible that you disconnected and incorrectly re-connected the 
> led light cable to the motherboard ?
> 
> Cheers/2
> 
> Ed.

Well, Ed, anything is certainly possible :-)

However, if the cable was disconnected it was done inadvertently, and 
not reconnected. Swapping the drive on my laptop is just a slide 
out/slide in operation, and doesn't expose the motherboard.

Thanks for the input.


 
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