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Hard drive light permanently on
Hi guys, I have a little problem. I recently added a floppy drive to my pc
( i had no need for one previously). I have since unplugged the floppy drive and put it away again, but now I find that my hard drive light is permananlty on. this is a bit disconcerting for me cos I want my PC to function 100% properly. could someone please suggest a possible cause and solution for a permanantly-on hard drive light? It works fine otherwise. It is possible that it is simply coincidental that they light is always on now and the work with the floppy drive. |
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Paul wrote in message ... Hi guys, I have a little problem. I recently added a floppy drive to my pc ( i had no need for one previously). I have since unplugged the floppy drive and put it away again, but now I find that my hard drive light is permananlty on. this is a bit disconcerting for me cos I want my PC to function 100% properly. could someone please suggest a possible cause and solution for a permanantly-on hard drive light? It works fine otherwise. It is possible that it is simply coincidental that they light is always on now and the work with the floppy drive. anyone? |
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"Paul" wrote in message ...
Hi guys, I have a little problem. I recently added a floppy drive to my pc ( i had no need for one previously). I have since unplugged the floppy drive and put it away again, but now I find that my hard drive light is permananlty on. this is a bit disconcerting for me cos I want my PC to function 100% properly. could someone please suggest a possible cause and solution for a permanantly-on hard drive light? It works fine otherwise. It is possible that it is simply coincidental that they light is always on now and the work with the floppy drive. I had a similar problem recently and solved it, but the cause may be different from yours. In my case, one of the wires feeding the HD light from the motherboard had had its sleeving cut open by a sharp edge in the cabinet, and was shorting to the case metal which is also the common ground for the system. The cure was obvious. This was a machine that I built for a friend and the sypmtom was present from the beginning. I assumed that the motherboard was faulty and called my supplier. They shipped a replacement, but when the HD LED still stayed on, I got suspicious, opened the front cover, and there it was - a faulty assembly by the cabinet manufacturer. Perhaps something similar happened when you installed the FDD ? |
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Zotin Khuma wrote in message .. . "Paul" wrote in message ... Hi guys, I have a little problem. I recently added a floppy drive to my pc ( i had no need for one previously). I have since unplugged the floppy drive and put it away again, but now I find that my hard drive light is permananlty on. this is a bit disconcerting for me cos I want my PC to function 100% properly. could someone please suggest a possible cause and solution for a permanantly-on hard drive light? It works fine otherwise. It is possible that it is simply coincidental that they light is always on now and the work with the floppy drive. I had a similar problem recently and solved it, but the cause may be different from yours. In my case, one of the wires feeding the HD light from the motherboard had had its sleeving cut open by a sharp edge in the cabinet, and was shorting to the case metal which is also the common ground for the system. The cure was obvious. This was a machine that I built for a friend and the sypmtom was present from the beginning. I assumed that the motherboard was faulty and called my supplier. They shipped a replacement, but when the HD LED still stayed on, I got suspicious, opened the front cover, and there it was - a faulty assembly by the cabinet manufacturer. Perhaps something similar happened when you installed the FDD ? thankyou for your feedback, I will check all of my cords etc to make sure nothing is amiss. this gives me somewhere to start so thankyou. |
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"Paul" wrote in message ... Hi guys, I have a little problem. I recently added a floppy drive to my pc ( i had no need for one previously). I have since unplugged the floppy drive and put it away again, but now I find that my hard drive light is permananlty on. this is a bit disconcerting for me cos I want my PC to function 100% properly. could someone please suggest a possible cause and solution for a permanantly-on hard drive light? It works fine otherwise. It is possible that it is simply coincidental that they light is always on now and the work with the floppy drive. I had that problem once, and, after reversing the HD light plug into the mainboard to no effect, I changed the BIOS setting of my cdrom drive from "Auto" to "CDROM". For whatever reason, that solved the problem. This may not be relevant to your problem, however. -- Bob Day http://bobday.vze.com |
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Are you sure it's the HD activity light? Did you change anything o the
HD?Installig the floppy cable backwards will cause the floffy light to stay on all the time. Check it anyway. Hi guys, I have a little problem. I recently added a floppy drive to my pc ( i had no need for one previously). I have since unplugged the floppy drive and put it away again, but now I find that my hard drive light is permananlty on. this is a bit disconcerting for me cos I want my PC to function 100% properly. could someone please suggest a possible cause and solution for a permanantly-on hard drive light? |
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