Disk seeks all the time??

[Buzz76]

First: Hi all 🙂

Been hanging around AMD forums so far... so now i guess i'll trie here 🙂

I just built a P4 2.4 system on a Asus P4PE mobo. WD 120GB 7200 JB, 512MB, Gf4 Ti4600, burner,DVD...

Problem is my disk is aksessing all the time. Noticed it at once. First boot i went into BIOS, and noticed it made seeking sounds (led inactive). Didn't think about it much, other than maybe it where cuz i had'nt partitoned it yet.

However, i have now installed WinXP and it still does this. Quite annoying. My other systems does not behave this way.

Any ideas?

 

[corkyg]

Sounds like you have something running in background on your system. Run MSCONFIG and turn all that junk off and start with the essentials - SYSTRAY and Explorer.

 

[Stratification]

So if you go into the BIOS it still sounds active? Would be more than just a background program then.

 

[corkyg]

Turn S.M.A.R.T. off and see what happens.