Deckhand Posted July 16, 2002 Share Posted July 16, 2002 My HDD activity lights and always on, i have no idea why.. they were working earlier, but ever since i upgraded my bios, they have been constantly on. I reverted to the older BIOS, and still the same... no luck please help. here are my specs. Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-7VRXP Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.667 ghz) w/ Volcano 6CU Fan. Memory: 256mb pc2700 DDR 333 Hard Drives: 2x Maxtor 60 gig ATA 133 7200RPM (Raid enabled.) 1x Western Digital 80 gig ATA 100 7200RPM Video Card: ATI Radeon 8500LE 128mb DDR Sound Card: Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 +mp3 CDROM: 48x CDRW: HP CD-Writer+9300 Removable Devices: Iomega Zip Drive (100mb), FLoppy Drive Case: Super Flower - 201 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deckhand Posted July 17, 2002 Author Share Posted July 17, 2002 :ermm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Otto Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 do you have the wires plugged in the correct way as shown in ur mobo manual? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessejlt Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 Did you change anything physically ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deckhand Posted July 17, 2002 Author Share Posted July 17, 2002 Originally posted by jessejlt Did you change anything physically ? nothing physically Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deckhand Posted July 17, 2002 Author Share Posted July 17, 2002 im pretty sure they are in their right because, it used to work fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vraa Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 hmm.. maybe because your on raid.. i have no experiance with raid so thats why i suggested it.. i've never seen it in action.. do you have any background programs running? or even when your computer is in the bios and stuff.. if its only on while in windows then we may have narrowed down some problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deckhand Posted July 17, 2002 Author Share Posted July 17, 2002 happens while just idling in the BIOS also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessejlt Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 And you are sure you correctly reverted the BIOS ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deckhand Posted July 17, 2002 Author Share Posted July 17, 2002 yes, im positive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris123NT Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 LOL u plugged the wire in backwards. Reverse it i'm sure it will work ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalDJ Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 is ur comp actually doing nething?!! at all? CTRL+ALT+DEL check CPU Usage in Task Manager in XP :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessejlt Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 Originally posted by Chris123NT LOL u plugged the wire in backwards. Reverse it i'm sure it will work ;) He said he didn't change anything physically, of course I think he is lying because a backwards wire will cause the led to stay illuminated but he said he didn't change anything.....:s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Initial 2k2 Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 Maybe your looking at the power LED :old: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deckhand Posted July 17, 2002 Author Share Posted July 17, 2002 Originally posted by jessejlt He said he didn't change anything physically, of course I think he is lying because a backwards wire will cause the led to stay illuminated but he said he didn't change anything.....:s i think your dumb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abysal Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 Guys relax, I have the same problem with my old GA-7ZXR rev 2.2 and win2k. Durring boot the HD light would stay contantly on (even through out my win32 session), and it happend after I added a new HD, I had a Quantum 13.6 GB and added a Maxtor 10 GB. It would also only happend in win2k (in win98 the light would not stay on). Anyway since then the machine was made into a server and the BIOS was upgraded, only the 13.6 Quantum drive remains, and the light works normally now (win2k server is installed .. before was pro). I'd have to say it's probably something with the BIOS. I ran with that light on for a long time, other then being bothersome since you can't tell when your hd is really accessing... I don't think it'll break anything... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deckhand Posted July 17, 2002 Author Share Posted July 17, 2002 Originally posted by abysal Guys relax, I have the same problem with my old GA-7ZXR rev 2.2 and win2k. Durring boot the HD light would stay contantly on (even through out my win32 session), and it happend after I added a new HD, I had a Quantum 13.6 GB and added a Maxtor 10 GB. It would also only happend in win2k (in win98 the light would not stay on). Anyway since then the machine was made into a server and the BIOS was upgraded, only the 13.6 Quantum drive remains, and the light works normally now (win2k server is installed .. before was pro). I'd have to say it's probably something with the BIOS. I ran with that light on for a long time, other then being bothersome since you can't tell when your hd is really accessing... I don't think it'll break anything... thanks, i went to an older bios (f6 version) and everything is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToastGodSupreme Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 Originally posted by Deckhand thanks, i went to an older bios (f6 version) and everything is great. This actually happened to me too. Though I use the ASUS TUA266 mobo. Anyway, what fixed it was swaping my CD burner and CDROM. Too weird. I later figured out it was the CDROM that wasn't playing nice. It works and all, it just doesn't like to be slaved up for some reason. :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris123NT Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 Originally posted by ToastGodSupreme This actually happened to me too. Though I use the ASUS TUA266 mobo. Anyway, what fixed it was swaping my CD burner and CDROM. Too weird. I later figured out it was the CDROM that wasn't playing nice. It works and all, it just doesn't like to be slaved up for some reason. :rolleyes: LOL nothing likes to be a slave man :p:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹ Posted July 17, 2002 Subscriber¹ Share Posted July 17, 2002 Seen this a few times ... as people have suggested, swapping drives around works. What I've also found works is just to swap the power connectors around ... ie swap the power connectors from say the HD and the CD-Rom, I dont know why, but it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick0142 Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 Originally posted by Chris123NT LOL nothing likes to be a slave man :p:p sometimes.. not often, but sometimes... i do.... :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris123NT Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 LOL :p:p:P:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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