HP Pavilion Elite HPE-170 has Desktop PC - graph disc flashing - Normal?

Hi all

I just bought a http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01969875

and I was wondering if the orange graphic of 3 discs piled on each other in the right upper part of the façade of the tower is supposed to flashes and turns off all the time?

Or is it telling me that I'm supposed to do something?

Hello BigBad64, while I'm not familiar with your system, the light you describe indicates the hard disk activity.

Normally, that's fine because it flashes a little or even a bit, depending on what the system is doing at a given time.

Even if you can not do anything, the drive hard activity can and cannot, turned on because of background running applications and services.

There is also the possibility of Windows running the task of "Indexing", which is supposed to help with research on the system.

I'd be too concerned about this, as there doesn't seem to be normal.

I noticed that you mentioned that you just received this system. It was released in December 2009 for customers in Australia.

This would be not for me either, just thought that it kinda weird that you have just recently.

I hope this helps.

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