Dumb Question Regarding That Red Light!

[dmegametal#1]

http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/arc ... 50992.html

i looked at some sites to no good answers..the question is..what is the RED LIGHT BEING on for more than a min??

when i am scanning items for EBAY..the red light would come on and while that is happening i try to log into different boards and the pc would come to a halt for about 30sec..the cursor wouldn't move...one the red light goes off..it works again...when i start to scan again..the RED light would come back on and and evrything would stop even while i am on different boards..and i get a white page saying there was a problem connecting to a website..please contact the site Admin...currently the RED LIGHT is on and it's been at least 2min now!!!

[sorrowman]

Tho I found it a bit hard to piece together what is exactly happening to your PC (a somewhat clearer discription of what's happening exactly ATM prolly won't hurt), but from what I've been able to gather I'm assuming the HDD LED indicating HDD activity is on for extended periods of time, seemingly for no reason.

I think it could mean two things.

Either a piece of software or process (such as security software in a real-time scan mode) keeps interferring with whatever you're doing instantly taking up most of your systems capacity, causing it to either hang or seemingly hang or whatever.

Another possibility may be that your harddrive is dying on ya. From what I understand you have a Maxtor 60GB harddrive, and the thing is, those older Maxtor drives sometimes had a tendency to overheat if not cooled properly, which in the end might cause the HDD to die on ya. That's one of the reasons I'm not too fond of those Maxtor drives anymore.

I'd be moer then happy to shed a light on this, but a better discription on what it is that you're experiencing ATM would be helpful, 'cause a handfull of issues (from LED being on for no reason to keyboard errors, to random shutdowns) are being mentioned in the topic you posted a link to

[dmegametal#1]

that link i posted is what i could find but not a real good answer..what happens is that when i am scanning stuff..that red light would come on for a period of time causing the screen to sort of freeze up on me when i am scrolling either up or down..and when i have 2 windows open and if i want to go to aother screen..it would take about a min or 2 to get there..and the red light is still on!!!

[sorrowman]

Scanning as in scanning stuff with security/anti-virus software, or scanning websites and auctions for intesting items or whatever?

And what about the Red Light? is that like a red HDD LED that on for longer periods indicating intensive HDD activity, or a red light on your screen as in a windows warning or error message or something.

[dmegametal#1]

Scanning as in scanning stuff with security/anti-virus software, or scanning websites and auctions for intesting items or whatever?

And what about the Red Light? is that like a red HDD LED that on for longer periods indicating intensive HDD activity, or a red light on your screen as in a windows warning or error message or something.

scanning items with a scanner for Ebay..not with Norton security..i have the green power light on the tower..but the red light is constantly on for few minutes then it goes out.. and comes back on again..sometimes when i am not doing anything..the red light just comes on with a single move of the mouse!!!

[damage jackal]

how about you go to some computer service and have them tell you if your HDD is fine?

[slayerdiabolus]

There is also a program called "Hard Drive Inspector Pro" that will examine your HDDs and let you know if there is any problems