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On my sons Lubuntu 10.4 PC the light that flashes when the PC is working flashes at idle.

Asked by oocevin

My other son has the same and it does not blink.
How can I find out what is making it blink. And how
to make it stop. It blinks in time like it is a second
hand on a digital watch..

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demarm01 (demarm01) said : 		#1

that sounds like the hard drive light. that can or should flash from time to time. the most probable reason is that there may be a programs(service) running in the background on one computer not the other.
for example a web server like Apache listening to requests on the network.

personally if the computer isn't crashing don't sweat it.

if you really want it stopped you need to find out what service it is and shut it down.
system>administration>services

or you can try to reinstall

or open the pc disconnect the light

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GREG T. (ubuntuer) said : 		#2

on some pc it you disconnect the light the pc will not run .

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oocevin (ccct007) said : 		#3

It flashes more than time from time. It flashes bout
every second.

My other sons PC has the same OS on it and it does
not flash that much. I installed them both and they do
not change the system.

How cane I get info so I can copy and paste it so you
can check it to see if it is norm or not..

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oocevin (ccct007) said : 		#4

OK I'm going to take your guys advise

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demarm01 (demarm01) said : 		#5

you might open up a terminal and use the command ` top ` this will show you the alocation of memory and what services are using the most resources and cpu. cntr-c to close top