I'm so steep on the learning curve right now, that I haven't been monitoring the HDs as much as before. There is no doubt that with just the original disk, and OS XP Home, that the relentless pulsing has stopped. There is a bit, but nothing like it was before.
I've yet to put in the program sent to me this morning to monitor drives, but I'll report when I catch up with the Yahoo problem.
When it was at its worst, there were two drives in an unusual configuration. Well, unusual when the slave drive was called by the BIOS to be the MASTER.
As mentioned in another thread, it all worked so well, except for getting CHECKDISK on a full start...and of course this incessant pulsing.
Now I have two reasons to put the larger new disk in by itself. Will it still pulse, and can I get me mail.
Shall start pulling cables this very....