Hard disk busy even after shutdown

[elumalai]

hai friends,

I have a system with Celeron 850, 128 MB RAM, Mercury motherboard and windows XP Pro.
My cabinet is AT cabinet (manual switch off).


The problem is whenever I shut down, the message "You can safely turnoff" comes and monitor goes off. But the hard disk busy light is glowing.

How to overcome this problem. Plsss help.

[elumalai]

Oops this should have been posted in hardware discussion

Sorry sorry

moderators pls move it.

thanking u

[ganesh8]

Win XP is saving settings. Since you have a AT board, you should wait for the hard disk activity to get over before pressing the Power off switch

[ice]

Win XP wil NOt be saving settings after it shows the "its safe to turn ur pc off thing"

Its prolly the led, do u notice it runnin all the time?
Like when u leave ur pc idle?

Btw what File System are u using, hope its ntfs, handles powercuts better

[elumalai]

haai ice

four partitions c: FAT windows me
D: ntfs xp

This problem occurs after I connected the CD writer bought from Digit.

There are two slots on the motherboard,

for one, I connected the two cd drives.
the next, for hard disk.

And yes, no scan disk runs when I again switch on, but when I manually scan, it has developed 65 KB of bad sectors

Somebody pls help

[ice]

And yes, no scan disk runs when I again switch on, but when I manually scan, it has developed 65 KB of bad sectors.

On the FAT32 partition i presume? try Disconnecting the writer. Oh btw, does the led run always, like when ur in windows and not doing anything.

Oh and the shutdown in ME is normal./fine?

[wORm]

If your LED doesn't blink and just stays lit all the time, then the connector on the motherboard is connected backwards.

seems that U need to upgrade your powr supply & to a ATX motherboard

[swatkat]

I have Win98 in C: and WinXP in E:.Similar problem exists in Win98 while shutting down (LED stays ON) but XP is working fine.What may be the problem?
I have 20GB HDD,Mercury KOB810 DSMT mobo,192 MB SDRam,P3 856 MHz,1 CD Reader and one Combo Drive.

[elumalai]

hai

The LED is not glowing, when the system is idle. And works normally.

The problem occurs only after shutdown. I think Mercury motherboard only contains such a problem.

Pls help somebody, it has already developed 65 KB of bad sectors.

Should I change the cabinet.