xlilo2 Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 hi all.im new to neoplanet.i have a question, i have enabled power managment in the bios and windows, i have set my hard drive to turn off after 3 mins, but it keeps turning on almost every 15 mins. does anyone know why and how to stop this?also does anyone know how to get media center to record tv to a seprate hard drive than the temp record storage place?.thanks.Andrew James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 Hello. Welcome to NP.Not an answer to your question but, to conserve the life of a hard drive it is best not to have it constantly switching on and off. Continual stop/starting puts strain on the mechanical parts which can result in early failure.Have the drive running all the while the computer is running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironman556 Posted November 8, 2005 Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 Check what programs you have running. if one of them needs drive access every 15 mins it will cause the drive to spin up again. Try disabling programs you don't need running all the time, QuickTime quick launch etc. You can either do that in the program settings, right clicking on the icon in the try in the bottom right hand corner, or selecting run from the start menu and typing "msconfig"Once into msconfig, click on the start-up tab. You'll see a whole list of things with check boxes, if you can see any that you know you don't need uncheck them and apply. Anything you're unsure on either google to find out what it is or post the name here, DO NOT uncheck things unless you're sure of what they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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