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From: Ron Hardin on 27 Feb 2010 14:40
What hits the HD once a second when the Vostro 1520 laptop is
idle?

Vostro 1520, XP Professional (downgrade).

And how do you get rid of it.
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From: Ron Hardin on 28 Feb 2010 09:02
Ron Hardin wrote:
>
> What hits the HD once a second when the Vostro 1520 laptop is
> idle?
>
> Vostro 1520, XP Professional (downgrade).
>
> And how do you get rid of it.

Diagnostic boot (so only 13 processes) shows no I/O
(read/write/other) in task manager, but explorer.exe
getting a page fault each second.

Why a page fault each second, and why not just once to get the
page and be done with it.

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From: RnR on 28 Feb 2010 09:56
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:02:55 -0500, Ron Hardin
<rhhardin(a)mindspring.com> wrote:

>Ron Hardin wrote:
>>
>> What hits the HD once a second when the Vostro 1520 laptop is
>> idle?
>>
>> Vostro 1520, XP Professional (downgrade).
>>
>> And how do you get rid of it.
>
>Diagnostic boot (so only 13 processes) shows no I/O
>(read/write/other) in task manager, but explorer.exe
>getting a page fault each second.
>
>Why a page fault each second, and why not just once to get the
>page and be done with it.



I'm guessing a firewall, indexing or defragging but if I really wanted
to know and not guess, I'd Google on those processes one by one and
see what they belong to and suppose to do. You could also try to
kill each process one by one and inspect. Be careful tho, as this
might cause a crash and needed reboot to get back to prior status.
From: William R. Walsh on 1 Mar 2010 00:24
Hi!

Could be an ATA CD-ROM drive fooling you. I've seen some that would do that
when idle.

Is the serial ATA controller running in native (AHCI) mode or ATA emulation?

William
--
Brought to you by an IBM PS/2 9585-0XF, "Defiant"
AMD 486-133/64MB/2GB S/N 23HN457


From: Ron Hardin on 1 Mar 2010 09:10
William R. Walsh wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Could be an ATA CD-ROM drive fooling you. I've seen some that would do that
> when idle.
>
> Is the serial ATA controller running in native (AHCI) mode or ATA emulation?
>
> William
> --
> Brought to you by an IBM PS/2 9585-0XF, "Defiant"
> AMD 486-133/64MB/2GB S/N 23HN457

Where do I look? (It's the HD light that flickers, in case that's a
misunderstanding; the worry is that it shortens the HD life if it operates
once a second 24/7).
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