My Windows 7 Machines, when idle, ficker the HDD activity light pretty much dead on once per second. The machines have been running for a while, so there's nothing loading or running in the background that should be causing it.
I've already tried the suggestions in Why does my hard drive LED light blink every second? and Why does the hard drive light blink once per second? - Neither work. (I don't have a broadcom card reader, and it's happening on two different machines)
I've:
- turned off Autorun via the control panel
- disabled the services\cdrom\autorun key
- adding "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\PerfDisk\Performance\Disable Performance Counters"=1
- run diskperf -N
- opened Process Explorer and watched for any processes causing it
I once fixed it before by a command similar to the diskperf command, but I've since been unable to find the command, or it's stopped working.
It's happening on my gaming machine (Xeon E3-1230v2, Sandy Bridge board, W7x64) and a random laptop I've got (HP Elitebook 2530p, C2D L9400, fresh install of W7x32). Both have SSDs and ODDs.
I believe it's something like the disk statistics system - if it is polling the disk to gauge the latency or something how do I disable it?