I fixed my Blinkin' HD light, how about you?

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For the past week and a half I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out
why my damn HD light was blinking every second. I searched High and low for a
reason. I downloaded procmons, filemons, dixkmons, digimons. I scanned, I
ghosted, I fresh installed, I updated. and yet this damn light kept blinking.
I was thinking I was in a modern day E. Poe poem with the HD light being my
raven. *blink*
I looked through fora (is that the plural of forums?) until I cam across a
post at
http://techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=42726&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60
It was suggested to disable the CD/dvd drive in device manager. I tried this
and the damn thing stopped blinking. But why would my DVDRW be accessing my
HD? well, you see its a sony. (now here's where I start pulling out the
conspiracy theories) Sony had that big fiasco earlier with DRM. "hey lets
install a rootkit on the computers of the people who buy our CD's" Well,
maybe now instead of having software loaded from a cd its now residing on a
rom embedded in their DVDRW Drives? Sneaky. All I know is my older Pioneer
DVDRW is now installed on this computer and the damn HD light blinks only
when Its supposed to... not every second.

I hope this helps others out there.

PS This is about lsass.exe accessing the HD, HD activity, Hard Drive
Activity. Hopefully if that is what you're wondering about this halps fix
your problem.
 
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Ron Sommer

One of the things that was recommended to extend battery life on a laptop
was to turn off auto notification of when a CD was inserted.
I would say that the hard drive was checking to see if a CD/DVD has been
inserted.
--
Ronald Sommer

: For the past week and a half I've been wracking my brain trying to figure
out
: why my damn HD light was blinking every second. I searched High and low
for a
: reason. I downloaded procmons, filemons, dixkmons, digimons. I scanned, I
: ghosted, I fresh installed, I updated. and yet this damn light kept
blinking.
: I was thinking I was in a modern day E. Poe poem with the HD light being
my
: raven. *blink*
: I looked through fora (is that the plural of forums?) until I cam across a
: post at
:
http://techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=42726&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60
: It was suggested to disable the CD/dvd drive in device manager. I tried
this
: and the damn thing stopped blinking. But why would my DVDRW be accessing
my
: HD? well, you see its a sony. (now here's where I start pulling out the
: conspiracy theories) Sony had that big fiasco earlier with DRM. "hey lets
: install a rootkit on the computers of the people who buy our CD's" Well,
: maybe now instead of having software loaded from a cd its now residing on
a
: rom embedded in their DVDRW Drives? Sneaky. All I know is my older Pioneer
: DVDRW is now installed on this computer and the damn HD light blinks only
: when Its supposed to... not every second.
:
: I hope this helps others out there.
:
: PS This is about lsass.exe accessing the HD, HD activity, Hard Drive
: Activity. Hopefully if that is what you're wondering about this halps fix
: your problem.
 
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Guest

Rikkitik said:
For the past week and a half I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out
why my damn HD light was blinking every second. I searched High and low for a
reason. I downloaded procmons, filemons, dixkmons, digimons. I scanned, I
ghosted, I fresh installed, I updated. and yet this damn light kept blinking.
I was thinking I was in a modern day E. Poe poem with the HD light being my
raven. *blink*
I looked through fora (is that the plural of forums?) until I cam across a
post at
http://techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=42726&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60
It was suggested to disable the CD/dvd drive in device manager. I tried this
and the damn thing stopped blinking. But why would my DVDRW be accessing my
HD? well, you see its a sony. (now here's where I start pulling out the
conspiracy theories) Sony had that big fiasco earlier with DRM. "hey lets
install a rootkit on the computers of the people who buy our CD's" Well,
maybe now instead of having software loaded from a cd its now residing on a
rom embedded in their DVDRW Drives? Sneaky. All I know is my older Pioneer
DVDRW is now installed on this computer and the damn HD light blinks only
when Its supposed to... not every second.

I hope this helps others out there.

PS This is about lsass.exe accessing the HD, HD activity, Hard Drive
Activity. Hopefully if that is what you're wondering about this halps fix
your problem.
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Didn't work for me, but thanks for the hint anyway :)

Incidentally, if you want to stop lsass.exe from issuing I/O reads, then
simply open up msconfig, then the "Services" tab and then untick "terminal
services" and restart the PC as it asks. lsass.exe will stop being so active,
but the problem then just moves to csrss.exe instead.

Having spent days researching the web, it seems that the once-a-second
blinking has been around for literally years, and MS seem either unaware of
the problem, unable to fix it or unwilling to fix it....your guess is as good
as mine. I'm sorry if it seems that I'm bad mouthing MS in their own
newsgroup, but to have a bug which (1) works in "Safe Mode" and (2) can
affect a PC which has a fresh HDD and a fresh XP SP2 install before it's even
connected to a network is inexcusable.
 
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Guest

Ron Sommer said:
One of the things that was recommended to extend battery life on a laptop
was to turn off auto notification of when a CD was inserted.
I would say that the hard drive was checking to see if a CD/DVD has been
inserted.
Click to expand...
I would say that you did not have the problem that many have experienced.
The HD should not poll every second. Also, if this was the case, changing to
a different DVDRW would have made no difference. Anyone saying that the
blinking light is normal is full of it. It is a problem, albeit a benign one.
 
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