All -

For about the past 4 months or so my hard drive LED has been coming on and staying on solid. Usually the only way to clear it up is to either completely shut down the PC (which doesn't always work), or reboot the PC 3 or 4 times. I think it started when I upgraded my CD/RW and DVD drive, but I am not 100% certain.

From what I can tell, this usually happens when I play a file using WMP or when I copy large amounts of data from one drive to another.

So far, I have replaced my IDE cables, I recently purchased a new case, (although I didn't do this to correct this issue, but I was kind of hoping I had a pinched or shorted out wire in my old case). I have changed jumper settings on my CD Drives. My DVD drive is Master my CD/RW is Slave on the secondary IDE controller. My main hard drive (WD 60GB 7200 RPM) is primary master on the primary IDE controller. I also have a spanning volume setup with my on-board RAID controller equaling out to 35GB.

The only thing that I have not done is flash my BIOS, which I am almost certain would not cure this issue.

I have come to the conclusion that the problem lies within my hard drive, my IDE controller or the pins where I plug in the wire for the hard drive LED.

Someone did suggest setting my CD drives to "Cable Select", but for some reason that didn't make a whole lot of sense.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Any information would be greatly appreciated. This isn't a major problem, just a major annoyance that I would like to either get resolved, or know where the problem lies so that I can resolve it in the future.

Thanks in advance.