Disturbing harddrive problem with x60s

My harddrive is constantly showing activity, even in idle mode. The indicator light blinks once every second and I can hear the harddrive reading/writing. I've turned of the indexing service. I'm running "Active virus shield" and "comodo firewall" in the background. And I've scanned for virus and spyware with no detections. The harddrive shows no activity when in bios or thinkvantage startup (pressing the blue key while booting up).

Any ideas on how to get rid of this infernal blinking...?

My setup: 1.66 cd, 1gb ram, 80gb hd.

Thanks in advance,

J

 

Is the hard disk writing/reading heavily, because even when ideling, it will be making a noise, like a clicking, because it is continuously gathering and wrting data to the disk. The blinking will not go away, and it is quite normal for notebooks. Its nothing to worry about, but it may just be more annoying than problematic.

 

Thanks for the fast reply (wow)

I wouldnt consider this heavy activity, more on the light side. Shutting down virusprotection and the firewall makes it blink less frequently. If you say it's normal, I guess I'll have to live with it. I just assumed, since my last notebook never had this problem, that it meant trouble.

J

 

maybe it is scanning for your files for viruses.

 

Have you checked your memory usage?

 

That could certainly be a possibility. Some Antivirus programs will scan automatically, when the notebook starts up, so alot of hard disk activity will be present. Some of the newer drives are quite loud, but they sacrifce this, in order to gain the performance advantage. This could be true for your experience with this notebook, and your earlier computer.

 

54% free memory according to NHC, and no background virus scans (afaik). A virus scan would most likely result in a constant loading, this is more quick bursts each second. Looking in the task manager at I/O reads, shows: csrss.exe in top... whatever that means.

I should probably mention that the notebook didnt do this when I got it, so most likely it's something I've installed or changed. A system restore might be an option.

 

http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/csrss/

 

Thank you, had a feeling it was an essential process.

Are there any x60/s-users out there having the same problem? Thinking the problem might be one of the programs that came with the system.

J

 

I'm having this problem too - x60s with 2 gig ram and the hard drive is constantly being accessed, so much so that it's performing far worse than the 1 gig T42 I just gave back. Did anyone get any further with this issue?