Any ideas,
Was working normally, but now the led is constintly on.
Will sometimes turn off, but :|

Computer is not lagging, Cpu usage is low 3% and memory usage is low as well.
Thanks.

Prolly plugged in the wrong way around or something

nahh thats the thing, it has only just started doing this.

nah, its a diode, it wouldnt light up if it was in the wrong way around.
Maybe its plugged into the power light header :D

an ant crawled across the contacts.

maybe a virus? I know the indexing service in win2k/xp can do this. Have you got a creative infra CD drive? when I installed the software for mine it made the lights on the SCSI bus AND the IDE bus blink constantly....f***s me why it touched the scsi bus, the drive is no where near it.

I should point out that on some motherboards/IO controller cards, the "HDD LED" is more correctly a "bus activity LED" and as such will blink/flicker if _any_ device performs a bus access.

nah, its a diode, it wouldnt light up if it was in the wrong way around.

That's right.

That's right

Sure is

Sure is

yeah

Actually, I can remember having a similar thing happen, and it was just the IDE cable wasn't firmly plugged into the back of the HDD.

you're being haxored into!

Actually, I can remember having a similar thing happen, and it was just the IDE cable wasn't firmly plugged into the back of the HDD.

Yes that would cause the LED to stay on. It can also happen if you plug the cable in upside down or put the devices in the wrong order.

yes

it was working fine, just happened one day.
I have not taken out the cords in the puter.

mobo could be borked.
but does it really matter ?

hope not, not that i can notice.

hehe, my hdd light wouldn't go off yesterday either... hehe I just replaced the wiring and it was fine :D

man 1 out of every 2 of your threads is a computer problem thread, have u ever heard of google?

cmon a problem with an LED how hard is that to figure out urself?

Good, so u know?

nah, its a diode, it wouldnt light up if it was in the wrong way around.

so you say, but it's happened to me the wrong way round. nyer :P

rubba chicken is correct.