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HD LED KEEPS Flickering

EaglePC
Level 10

‎03-31-2018 10:22 PM - last edited on ‎03-06-2024 09:03 PM by Community Admin

Hi all happy Easter something strange and didn't notice until i upgrade to a new PC case my hd led keeps flickering constantly right by the nvme drive where i have installed it on my rampage 10 mb looking at task manager it say 0% disk usage anyone else notice this runnning windows 10 i had to disconnected the hd led wire from my PC case was annoying ? even all drives disconnected except nmve drive on mb led keeps flickering.
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Arne_Saknussemm
Level 40

‎04-01-2018 12:43 AM

It light up when there is significant disk activity...that is normal...
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EaglePC
Level 10

‎04-01-2018 05:00 AM

OK my PC was on for over a day and it is still flickering like mad checked task manager 0% disk activity

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EaglePC
Level 10

‎04-01-2018 05:22 AM

something interesting clean install on windows 10 no apps been on over a day something keeps writing to nmve drive
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Arne_Saknussemm
Level 40

‎04-01-2018 11:13 AM

The PC is never idle...background tasks and services will read and write to the drive. The threshold for activity must be different for windows task manager
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EaglePC
Level 10
In response to Arne_Saknussemm

‎04-01-2018 02:50 PM

Arne Saknussemm wrote:
The PC is never idle...background tasks and services will read and write to the drive. The threshold for activity must be different for windows task manager


hey thanks i just unplug the wire from my thermaltake view 71 case the red hd led is annoying
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Korth
Level 14

‎04-01-2018 04:31 PM

You could install a capacitor to attenuate transient visible (and invisible) HDD LED flickering.

A coupling cap between +5VDC and GND, or an in-line cap on +5VDC, with a small value (say, 5V and ~10µF). It's just an indicator LED, not a critical circuit, so at worst the LED won't be lit properly and a (reasonably small value) cap can't damage anything on the mobo.
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