Ms. Julie
08-02-2005, 09:09 AM
This is a big and perplexing issue for me. I hope the gurus here can help me out.
In the user options in the power setting, I can choose that when the computer is plugged in that the hard drive is never turned off. I would assume that that would mean that the hard drive would never power down; that is, that the hard drive would keep spinning even after several minutes of not accessing the hard drive.
For me, that is not the case. It does not matter what setting I have chosen for the power management, and it does not matter that the machine is plugged in, after about 50 seconds of nonaccess, the hard drive powers down. I work in an extremely quiet environment, and I can hear the hard drive powering down. It does not matter if I am actively using the computer, as long as the program I am using has not accessed the hard drive in the last 50 seconds -- the hard drive stops spinning. Then, as I am working, and the program needs to access the hard drive, I can hear the hard drive powering up and I have to wait for it you seconds for work on the program to continue.
What I'm wondering is whether this is a function of the Intel Centrino chip or something.
Perhaps I am fundamentally misunderstanding what the power setting management can do. I thought that if I put it at the setting to keep the hard drive from shutting down, that the hard drive would keep running.
I have a gateway M 275. I have sent it in for repair, and the motherboard checked out okay. I even convinced gateway to send me a replacement -- and it did the same thing, straight out of the box, right during the initial setup of Windows. If there is a ghost in my machine, it is not just my machine.
Many thanks in advance. Julie
In the user options in the power setting, I can choose that when the computer is plugged in that the hard drive is never turned off. I would assume that that would mean that the hard drive would never power down; that is, that the hard drive would keep spinning even after several minutes of not accessing the hard drive.
For me, that is not the case. It does not matter what setting I have chosen for the power management, and it does not matter that the machine is plugged in, after about 50 seconds of nonaccess, the hard drive powers down. I work in an extremely quiet environment, and I can hear the hard drive powering down. It does not matter if I am actively using the computer, as long as the program I am using has not accessed the hard drive in the last 50 seconds -- the hard drive stops spinning. Then, as I am working, and the program needs to access the hard drive, I can hear the hard drive powering up and I have to wait for it you seconds for work on the program to continue.
What I'm wondering is whether this is a function of the Intel Centrino chip or something.
Perhaps I am fundamentally misunderstanding what the power setting management can do. I thought that if I put it at the setting to keep the hard drive from shutting down, that the hard drive would keep running.
I have a gateway M 275. I have sent it in for repair, and the motherboard checked out okay. I even convinced gateway to send me a replacement -- and it did the same thing, straight out of the box, right during the initial setup of Windows. If there is a ghost in my machine, it is not just my machine.
Many thanks in advance. Julie