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- From: bes38869@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (The Bard Duelak )
- Subject: Re: HD lights flicker in Windows 3.1 ?
- References: <C1EEq5.Ky1@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan25.141024.6013@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1993Jan25.181926.19241@donau.et.tudelft.nl> <1993Jan26.192807.18878@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:01:52 GMT
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- jmalloy@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Joseph T. Malloy) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan25.181926.19241@donau.et.tudelft.nl> linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
- >>mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (John P. Mechalas) writes:
- >>
- >>>In article <C1EEq5.Ky1@news.cso.uiuc.edu> bes38869@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (The Bard Duelak ) writes:
- >>>> I have a 386DX@40Mhz, w/ a Maxtor 7120A 130Mb Hd, and a
- >>>>Cirrus GD54 video card. I havent noticed this before, but when I enter
- >>>>Windows, it seems to be taking longer for it to start up, and then when
- >>>>it finally does, Windows seems to be accessin the HD alot, and when it isnt
- >>>>accessing the HD, the HD lights constantly flicker. They dont do this
- >>>>running under DOS. I have even run the most recent version of scan on
- >>>>all the files on the hard drive, and no viruses are reported.
- >>>> Has anyone had this problem, or know what is causing it and
- >>>>how to stop it? Please post, or reply by e-mail.
- >>
- >>>How many buffers and files do you have set in your config.sys? If you don't
- >>>have enough of either, Windows will be foreced to do a lot of disk accessing
- >>>(at least, that has been my experience). I set 30 files and 15 buffers,
- >>>though your mileage may vary, if this is indeed the problem.
- >>
- >>Last time I looked (ages ago) windows keeps accessing the harddisk
- >>periodically (every3-5 seconds) even when it isn't touched.
- >>I never found a valid reason for it doing so.
- >>
- >When I boot Windows, hard drive activity stops afer startup and doesn't
- >occur again until I do something to require it. If you're running a
- >program that automatically saves files in the background (word
- >processor, one of those post-it notes type utilities, spreadsheets --
- >all will do that if the options to do so are enabled), well, you'll see
- >a bit of disk activity from time to time. It sounds like theoriginal
- >poster's configuration has somehow changed (do you have a disk cache?
- >How large is it?) or he's using one or more programs that require more
- >memory and so Windows swaps out to disk...
-
- >This may be the equivalent of a Windows Urban Legend, but I've heard
- >often enough of problems with Windows (mostly 3.0, I admit) that were
- >solved by increasing the number of file handles in config.sys to 50 or
- >60 or so. If you have a disk cache, 15 buffers ought to be okay; if
- >not, the more the merrier.
-
- >Try Windows in standard mode and see how that goes, too...
-
- >Good luck!
-
- >jmalloy@hamilton.edu
-
- >>
- I found the problem, I had reconfigured my memory manager after
- installing a new video card, and changing something in autoexec.
- Apparently my memory manager did something screwy (still dont know what),
- but after re-reconfiguring it, everything is back to normal.
- Thanks to all who replied.
-
- -- Blair
-
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