| Re: Hard drive light constantly flashing ,reading hard drive during id I upgraded my Acer Aspire from 1Gig to 2 Gig when I purchased it and have
not had any low memory issues that I can detect. I guess it depends what
software you run and how memory intensive the software is. But it is amazing
how much memory you need considering my first 386 computer only had 1MB and
I thought upgrading to 2MB was cutting edge!
James
"Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> How much memory do you have? If you have 2GB or less then I am not
> surprised the hard drive runs constantly and it still will no matter what
> you turn off. It is paging to virtual memory on the hard drive. The
> solution is to add more memory so that the system does not have to keep
> moving things back and forth.
>
> "4evrnyt" <4evrnyt.399dbe@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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>>
>> I am having the same issue with Vista 64-bit but I've turned off
>> indexing and superfetch and the hard drive is still running all the
>> time when I'm not doing anything on the computer.
>>
>> What is there to disable to get it to stop doing this?
>>
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