Hard Drive LED Always on!


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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

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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.

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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:

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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

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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.

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