Energy saver settings question

[estame6]

Under settings "Screen Saver" in Display Properties, I've set it to
turn off monitor in 3 mins of idle and turn off hard drives off in 5
mins. These times setting work fine for my use and have noticed every
few mins the hard drive starts up (not monitor) for minute and then
shuts down again. Another few minutes hard drive fires up again for no
apparent reason that I can see. I am running XP SP2 on an ASUS P4PE
with 1.7 Gig, 256 Ram, onboard ethernet, nVidia FeGorce2.
Any suggestions please...

 

[JS]

You could have a background process that runs every few minutes.
You can use Task Manager or Process Explorer to see what runs every so
often.

Process Explorer:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx

Once you have Process Explorer installed and running:
In the taskbar select View and check 'Show Process Tree' and 'Show Lower
Pane' options.
(This will provide the detailed info you need)
Next click on the CPU column to sort processes by %CPU usage.
Then click on the process that's every few minutes and is using the highest
CPU %,
once it's highlighted, right click and from the options listed select:
google
This should display what out there on the web about that process.

Note: some entries like Explorer and svchost may need to be expanded to show
the detail,
(sub processes), in this case click on the + located to the left on the
entry.

JS