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I have a new (two-week-old) XP/Pro machine with a hard drive activity light that seems to blink (indicating disk activity) at random intervals about every half second. And this occurs even if I've been away from the machine for a couple of hours.
1) I've check both my program/system drive array (RAID-1) and data array (also RAID-1) and both do not have "Allow Indexing Service to index..." checked.
2) The top CPU users are
- System Idle Process ... usually 99%
- nScIp.exe
- nSvcAppFlt.exe
- upsd.exe ... I suspect this is polling my UPS
- Task manager
- explorer.exe
3) The System Overview Properties indicate there are some logs:
\Memory\Pages/sec
\PhysicalDisk(_Total)\Avg. Disk Queue Lenght
\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time
Apparently these are updated every 15 seconds
... but I suspect these operations use cache and should not be responsible for the I/O
4) There are no shares with other systems
5) I did some searches on nScIp.exe. I am not, so far as I know, running an nVidia firewall. I am running Norton Internet Security 2008.
Any ideas?
1) I've check both my program/system drive array (RAID-1) and data array (also RAID-1) and both do not have "Allow Indexing Service to index..." checked.
2) The top CPU users are
- System Idle Process ... usually 99%
- nScIp.exe
- nSvcAppFlt.exe
- upsd.exe ... I suspect this is polling my UPS
- Task manager
- explorer.exe
3) The System Overview Properties indicate there are some logs:
\Memory\Pages/sec
\PhysicalDisk(_Total)\Avg. Disk Queue Lenght
\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time
Apparently these are updated every 15 seconds
... but I suspect these operations use cache and should not be responsible for the I/O
4) There are no shares with other systems
5) I did some searches on nScIp.exe. I am not, so far as I know, running an nVidia firewall. I am running Norton Internet Security 2008.
Any ideas?