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Sorry, I discovered this section after posting in the other section and since PeekyPokey is a hardware device I thought maybe this was the right place but apparently I was wrong.
I do apologize for double posting.
modified 7-Sep-13 6:56am.
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Is the hard drive activity light controlled by the mainboard firmware or an OS driver?
I just upgraded my desktop from Win 7 to Win 8, and now the hard drive light is stuck on. Coincidence? Or driver error with Win 8?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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As far as I know that is a direct signal straight from the hard drive itself, which is also directed to an LED when you have a drive installed in a removable tray. This might be an oversimplification since signals from multiple drives are combined and routed by the controller to the motherboard pin.
As suggested in the link below, the constant-on light could be caused by Windows doing indexing on your existing data. Or scroll down to the last post and see how "midnight_matt" solved his 'problem'.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/275475-32-constant-disk-activity-computer[^]
[EDIT]
So, if you follow midnight_matt's lead, you can argue it is a driver issue of sorts, caused by the Intel Rapid Storage Technology thing that for some reason is polling the CD/DVD drive constantly.
[/EDIT]
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
modified 2-Sep-13 21:52pm.
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Pretty sure the light comes from the drive itself... the cause though... is likely a driver gone mad. 
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I'm pretty sure the issue was coming from Win 8. Here's how I know:
I discovered that Win 8 was not seeing my DVD drive. So I found a fix for that on MSDN that involved adding a registry key and rebooting.
Voila! Not only did Win 8 start seeing my DVD drive, but the hard drive light was back to normal!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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By the way, how do you like working in Win8? ...I've been avoiding it so far, Win7 does everything I need pretty well but I'm not sure if I'll have to migrate sooner or later.
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Actually I quite enjoy it. I installed Classic Shell and that does an adequate job of providing a start menu, and it also makes the machine switch right to the desktop after booting.
Win 8 is snappier than 7 and I really like the new Task Manager. Overall, as long as you stay in the desktop, it's just an improved Weven.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I've heard the "snappier" from other people as well... but I guess I'll make the change when I have to. I mostly develop for govt customers and it takes them forever to change as well so I usually want to work in whatever environment most of them are on.
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Oh, I know how it is. I created a system for hospitals, and they move slowly as well. This one hospital in NJ has just now begun to adopt 7! 'Til just a couple months ago, they were still on XP.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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 yeah, my customers are just adopting Win7 as well...
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hi ,
i need a Powershell script to get total processor percentage (without using performance counters)
Note: the value get same as '\\Processor(_Total)\\% Processor Time' counter
thank you
modified 28-Aug-13 6:08am.
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sumith sudesan wrote: i need a Powershell script to get total processor percentage
No problem! Here is the link
powershell processor usage[^]
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I'm writing a Uart16550 driver, and one of the things I have to do is read from the registry some initialization parameters using RtlQueryRegistryValues.
(a lot of code skipped...)
RTL_QUERY_REGISTRY_TABLE table[2];
and
table[1].QueryRoutine = NULL;
table[1].Name = NULL;
The parameter is stored in the registry as a REG_DWORD and I'm trying to set my table with:
unsigned long buffer;
(because DWORD is not defined in ntddk.h and I'm not sure if I break anything including WinDef.h) and
table[0].EntryContext = &buffer;
The status of the call to RtlQueryRegistryValues is STATUS_SUCCESS
status = RtlQueryRegistryValues(
RTL_REGISTRY_ABSOLUTE,
path,
table,
NULL,
NULL);
but when I try to
DbgPrint("registry: %lu", buffer)
I get way too big numbers (I expected the result to be 1 or 2).
Am I doing something wrong with the DbgPrint, or my parameters aren't set correctly for the query table?
And where is the RED_DWORD data type defined?
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Whats DWORD defined as, I forget, but probably unsigned int, so just pass one of these.
Also where is your dbgprint(), is it in the call back funtion?
dbgprint is lke printf, so use the same formatting.
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Hello all,
WINFO calls IOMEM.DLL to simple access ring0. but it can't be used on Windows 8. Is any other way for Windows 8?
Vincent
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I am having a problem making libusb0 to identify ANY USB device.
usb_init(); does not return any values and
iResult = usb_find_busses(); returns 1
and
iResult = usb_find_devices(); returns 0
and the DLL is
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\libusb0.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
The source for the device insists on using "libusb 0.1 ", but there is no such thing.
System and other applications identify ALL USB and the device in question.
Any constructive help will be as always appreciated.
Vaclav
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Vaclav_Sal wrote: usb_init(); does not return any values
Exactly as described in the documentation[^].
Use the best guess
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Why is the topic of discussion here will be deleted it?
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Are you sure you are American? I know they speak a slightly arcane English, but you.....
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Dude! Yoda wouldn't freaking understand this question!
What are you talking about??
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Check the link in OP's previous message; he/she speaks Spammish.
Use the best guess
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