Is Fast Find running?  It has given me similar signs.

Tom

At 04:12 PM 3/23/2002  Saturday +1200, you wrote:
>Win98SE, AMD 1800+XP, Gig 7VTXH+, 512 PC2100 DDR.
>
>Just about got all the bugs out of my new system........except this one: (if
>it is one!)
>The new Maxtor D740X-6L 40Gb 100ATA HDD occasionally goes through periods of
>intense drive light activity.
>The light activity shows on the case LED, but it's also mirrored by the LED
>on the underside of the drive.
>Sometimes this only lasts a few minutes, sometimes an hour.  Right now it's
>been flickering for 30 minutes or so. The flicker rate is invariably very
>fast.
>I haven't been able to tie the light display to any particular activity, but
>I did copy 3-4 gigs of files from the old drive to the new, about 30 minutes
>back.
>However, I've rebooted twice since then.
>At first I thought the drive might be faulty, but it seems to be ok in all
>other respects.
>The HD LED wires to the mobo pins are connected properly.
>It's running on an 80 wire ribbon, from IDE1, as master to an 8Gb Seagate
>Medalist, tho it does the same when it's alone on the ribbon.
>Before I attempt to complain to Maxtor, has anyone an idea about what might
>be causing it?
>TIA
>
>Ian Porter
>Computer Guys
>Arrowtown
>New Zealand
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