Hard Disk Access (intermittent, slight ...)

[Steve Giannoni]

2 networked systems, PIV and Celeron, both exhibit very slight and
intermittent disk accessing, even when absolutely nothing is
happening. PIV makes the very faint access sound but no light. Celeron
just an occasional very faint flicker of the light but no sound. Modem
/ router indicates continuous Internet activity but disconnecting has
no effect of symptoms. Informed comments most welcome & thanks ! ...

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Presuming you are 100% free of malware, it's most likely to be Windows
internal housekeeping. Happens all the time. I don't even notice it anymore.

 

[RJK]

....also, Celeron's, (another word for rejected Pentiums), are strangled by
having an inadequate amount of Level 2 on-die cache memory, hence they're
sold on as "Celeron's" as though they're something special. Celeron, (and
Sempron come to that) based machine's always seem to have something going on
with the paging file - even when they're idle !

regards, Richard

 

[Steve Giannoni]

Use Symantec / Norton's products for everything except Spyware Doctor.

Appreciate comments ...

 

[Steve Giannoni]

What's the Celeron? More detail please? Are they actually defective
Pentiums?

 

[RJK]

There's thousands of pages on the web with views on how Intel and AMD grade
and bin their chips !
....further down this page, there's a few references to binning.
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=overclock
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060924170257AAcYiGJ
http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/chips/0,39020436,2130276-3,00.htm

....I've found several pages claiming that Celerons are actualy manufactured
with the intended amount (e.g.128kb) of L2 cache on them, which is different
to what I read ages ago ! ...also the lower voltage "M" mobile cpu's
appear to be just "cherry-picked" from cpu manufacturing runs.

regards, Richard