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Constant Hard Drive Activity Light Gateway DX4860
For as long as I've had this machine (a little over a year) the HDD light is constantly going wild. (Erratic blinking, but ALWAYS blinking)
After purchasing it, I had to send it in for a warranty claim on a bad mother board.
Got it back, works fine. Used it for a few months, light still blinking.
I've always viewed it as bothersome, but nothing serious.
But now I can HEAR the hard drive making little noises. And I'm worried it's going to fail.
Disk check shows everything is OK. Ran Malwarebytes, Spypot S&D, and Avast! Virus Scan, no issues. I've defragged, tried disabling indexing and the DVD drive. Still blinking.
I've looked at Resource Monitor to see what is using the hard drive, and the list updates so often I can't even see what's doing what. It appears to be mostly activity from Firefox and system processes.
I'm all out of ideas. I'm thinking of upgrading to an SSD with a fresh Windows 8 install, but I don't want to do that and have the light STILL blink.
Could it be a still faulty motherboard? Does anyone have any ideas?