Vista - HDD light stays on when returning from sleep

08-24-2008

Hi,

I have a very small problem on a MSI motherboard running under Vista
Home Premium (SP1). When the machine returns from "Sleep" or
"Hibernate" the drive LED stays on permanently. Nothing I can do will
return it to the normal 'on and off' state except a reboot. There are
no other problems so I can live with this but would rather not.

Any ideas? May be this is normal as I think I have seen it on another
machine running under XP.

TIA - Joe

10-19-2008

I have the same problem on my Vaio VGN-Z11VN/B, but it resolved when I
reinstalled windows vista (I needed to upgrade to 64 bits anyway). This might
indeed indicate a driver problem.

"Phillips" wrote:

Quote:

> Some older boards do that... not sure if it's for IDE or SATA drives - for
> SATA probably you need newer drivers if any.
> Michael
>
> "Joe McElvenney" <ximac@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:eqe3b49ti9njju8hk6qfqloh3k6pjke17q@xxxxxx

Quote:

> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a very small problem on a MSI motherboard running under Vista
> > Home Premium (SP1). When the machine returns from "Sleep" or
> > "Hibernate" the drive LED stays on permanently. Nothing I can do will
> > return it to the normal 'on and off' state except a reboot. There are
> > no other problems so I can live with this but would rather not.
> >
> > Any ideas? May be this is normal as I think I have seen it on another
> > machine running under XP.
> >
> >
> > TIA - Joe

>

08-24-2008	#1 (permalink)
Joe McElvenney n/a posts	HDD light stays on when returning from sleep Hi, I have a very small problem on a MSI motherboard running under Vista Home Premium (SP1). When the machine returns from "Sleep" or "Hibernate" the drive LED stays on permanently. Nothing I can do will return it to the normal 'on and off' state except a reboot. There are no other problems so I can live with this but would rather not. Any ideas? May be this is normal as I think I have seen it on another machine running under XP. TIA - Joe
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10-19-2008	#2 (permalink)
DJFliX n/a posts	Re: HDD light stays on when returning from sleep I have the same problem on my Vaio VGN-Z11VN/B, but it resolved when I reinstalled windows vista (I needed to upgrade to 64 bits anyway). This might indeed indicate a driver problem. "Phillips" wrote: Quote: > Some older boards do that... not sure if it's for IDE or SATA drives - for > SATA probably you need newer drivers if any. > Michael > > "Joe McElvenney" <ximac@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:eqe3b49ti9njju8hk6qfqloh3k6pjke17q@xxxxxx Quote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a very small problem on a MSI motherboard running under Vista > > Home Premium (SP1). When the machine returns from "Sleep" or > > "Hibernate" the drive LED stays on permanently. Nothing I can do will > > return it to the normal 'on and off' state except a reboot. There are > > no other problems so I can live with this but would rather not. > > > > Any ideas? May be this is normal as I think I have seen it on another > > machine running under XP. > > > > > > TIA - Joe >
My System Specs

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