Drive spinning down?

[Nebulon]

Desktop PC with XP MCE SP2, under power options, turn off hard disks:
never. Despite which, the drives seem to start up with a whirring sound
if the machine has been idle and I suddenly turn up to do something at
it. This is accompanied by apparent slowdown in the interface, as would
be expected if it's blocking waiting for I/O.

Could it be something else (a fan)? If it's the hdds how do I keep them
always-spinning? (Drive life is shortened by frequent restarts. Why do
you think laptop drives crash so often? It's frequent stops and starts,
as much as their being more subject to knocks and changes of
orientation while running.)

 

[Pennywise]

|>Desktop PC with XP MCE SP2, under power options, turn off hard disks:
|>never. Despite which, the drives seem to start up with a whirring sound
|>if the machine has been idle and I suddenly turn up to do something at
|>it. This is accompanied by apparent slowdown in the interface, as would
|>be expected if it's blocking waiting for I/O.
|>
|>Could it be something else (a fan)? If it's the hdds how do I keep them
|>always-spinning? (Drive life is shortened by frequent restarts. Why do
|>you think laptop drives crash so often? It's frequent stops and starts,
|>as much as their being more subject to knocks and changes of
|>orientation while running.)

Disk Monitor?
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Diskmon.html

 

[Nebulon]

Disk Monitor?
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Diskmon.html

Are you asking a question? Or...

Anyway, I'm now guessing it's not the disks -- I heard the
scritter-scritter of disk access just before the whir started up on one
occasion.

Do some fans spin up temporarily rather than run continually at a fixed
speed? There's three in this box -- a quiet, always-on PSU fan, a big
fan/heatsink assembly over the AMD CPU, and a smaller fan/heatsink
assembly on the nVidia GPU...

 

[Pennywise]

|>[email protected] wrote:
|>> Disk Monitor?
|>> http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Diskmon.html

|>Are you asking a question? Or...

Just wondering if you could use that program to answer your question.

|>Anyway, I'm now guessing it's not the disks -- I heard the
|>scritter-scritter of disk access just before the whir started up on one
|>occasion.
|>
|>Do some fans spin up temporarily rather than run continually at a fixed
|>speed? There's three in this box -- a quiet, always-on PSU fan, a big
|>fan/heatsink assembly over the AMD CPU, and a smaller fan/heatsink
|>assembly on the nVidia GPU...

Ya, fans will come on depending upon the heat of the device. I use
Everest http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html to see temps and
fan speeds.

 

[Nebulon]

Ya, fans will come on depending upon the heat of the device. I use
Everest http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html to see temps and
fan speeds.

Bah, visiting that link just reminded me that my Firefox is still
infected by something lavasoft and spybot can't even identify, let
alone remove.

Whatever it is is along the same general lines as surf+ and toptext,
changing occurrences of some words (ones the spyware vendor's clients
paid to tie ads to) into links with abnormal underline style, color,
and mouseover behavior.

It actually seems to be a mild one, whatever it is -- it doesn't seem
to do anything else that I've noticed except alter/create links in
pages I view, and it only seems to do that on pages that are part of
webforum sites, perhaps detecting common forum software page code.

Anyone know what it might be and how to find and remove it? As I noted,
it's not detected by the two biggies. The fact that it's able to infect
Firefox must narrow it down quite a lot, though.

 

[Pennywise]

|>[email protected] wrote:
|>> Ya, fans will come on depending upon the heat of the device. I use
|>> Everest http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html to see temps and
|>> fan speeds.
|>
|>Bah, visiting that link just reminded me that my Firefox is still
|>infected by something lavasoft and spybot can't even identify, let
|>alone remove.

Direct link to file http://tinyurl.com/fd49g

|>Whatever it is is along the same general lines as surf+ and toptext,
|>changing occurrences of some words (ones the spyware vendor's clients
|>paid to tie ads to) into links with abnormal underline style, color,
|>and mouseover behavior.
|>
|>It actually seems to be a mild one, whatever it is -- it doesn't seem
|>to do anything else that I've noticed except alter/create links in
|>pages I view, and it only seems to do that on pages that are part of
|>webforum sites, perhaps detecting common forum software page code.
|>
|>Anyone know what it might be and how to find and remove it? As I noted,
|>it's not detected by the two biggies. The fact that it's able to infect
|>Firefox must narrow it down quite a lot, though.

Goto http://hijackthis.de/en download and run Hijackthis paste the
results to that page and see what it finds.

 

[Nebulon]

Direct link to file http://tinyurl.com/fd49g

You misspelled "direct link to 404".

Goto http://hijackthis.de/en download and run Hijackthis paste the
results to that page and see what it finds.

Er?

 

[Pennywise]

|>[email protected] wrote:
|>> Direct link to file http://tinyurl.com/fd49g
|>
|>You misspelled "direct link to 404".

I even tested it before I posted.. Try
http://tinyurl.com/lfhgk

longer

http://files3.majorgeeks.com/files/fc56459a18776e2a100854c16a1fd78b/systeminfo/everesthome220.exe


|>> Goto http://hijackthis.de/en download and run Hijackthis paste the
|>> results to that page and see what it finds.

 

[Nebulon]

|>[email protected] wrote:
|>> Direct link to file http://tinyurl.com/fd49g
|>
|>You misspelled "direct link to 404".

I even tested it before I posted.. Try
http://tinyurl.com/lfhgk

The requested URL
/files/fc56459a18776e2a100854c16a1fd78b/systeminfo/everesthome220.exe
was not found on this server.

Very funny. Remind me not to click any more links posted by you.
Although at least they're just duds, rather than ... something worse.
Hello.jpg, for instance.

 

[Pennywise]

|>[email protected] wrote:
|>>
|>> |>[email protected] wrote:
|>> |>> Direct link to file http://tinyurl.com/fd49g
|>> |>
|>> |>You misspelled "direct link to 404".
|>>
|>> I even tested it before I posted.. Try
|>> http://tinyurl.com/lfhgk
|>
|>The requested URL
|>/files/fc56459a18776e2a100854c16a1fd78b/systeminfo/everesthome220.exe
|>was not found on this server.
|>
|>Very funny. Remind me not to click any more links posted by you.
|>Although at least they're just duds, rather than ... something worse.
|>Hello.jpg, for instance.

Ha! ya they did work, looks like they are time'd links - the give away
was the tinyurl was different for the same link but I gave it a try.

If you really can't get to the site, use Firefox or Opera;
If you really want the file you can get it here
http://isohunt.com/torrents.php?ihq=everest&ext=&op=and

Also speedfan is kinda good for temps and controlling your fan
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

If I want'd to link you something worse, it would of been T*BGIRL.JPG
(misspelled as it really bad).