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Blinking Hard Drive
Name: Tony Date: November 4, 2002 at 15:59:10 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: 533/256MB
Comment:
Hi. This may have been asked before. Since installing windows xp, I noticed that the hard drive blinks. Not so much trying to access the hard drive, because its only for a split second, like a heart beat, and i dont notice it slowing down performance, just something i was curious. I heard it may have had something to do with the hard drive tying to access the cd-rom? thanks
Name: john Date: November 4, 2002 at 21:29:55 Pacific
Reply:
mine does the same thing, XP seems to be a busy little OS, could be writing to a page file....P>S> get ya some more memory xp loves memory to run best, at least 512mb
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Response Number 2
Name: chippp Date: November 5, 2002 at 08:37:34 Pacific
Reply:
xp will add any new files to a search data base so that the search feature will work faster, xp does this on it own in the background when the computer is idle.
it you add a bunch of new files you will find it busy working at this when your computer is idle.
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