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this is weird. whats your start page and do you use any browser plugins? do you use drive mappings?

as Dlink  said, web interface itself should not wake up the drives coz the whole thing is on the ram drive..

Last edited by SilentException (2008-10-18 00:23:30)

hiitsjack wrote:

Wow, thanks for the quick replies,

I use vista home premium as my OS with internet explorer.

My home page is bigpond.com but I've also had ninemsn.com (no difference, I think?)

I have mapped my 2 dns's via the "map network drive" button under within my computer.

I believe I only have the essential addons like Java and flash player.

This has been happening for as long as I've had these DNS 323's, I can't remember if I had them while I was using XP ?

Jack

do the hard drives spin up every now and then even if you do not start iexplore or they spin only when iexplore is started (or you use the drives (doh))?

i must say i have no idea whats causing the spin ups, but try to debug it:

download Process Monitor from microsoft page: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi … 96645.aspx

close internet explorer wait for the drives to spin down, run process monitor, disable event capture (File -> Capture Events), clear all (Edit -> Clear Display), add new filter (Filter -> Filter...):
Process name.....is not.....iexplore.exe.....then.....Exclude

confirm and run event capture.. start internet explorer and wait for the drive spin up then stop event capture.. look closely in the log (search for your drive letters from the mappings), there will be a lot of stuff in there, just don't be scared

let us know what you find out!

SilentException wrote:

download Process Monitor from microsoft page: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi … 96645.aspx

close internet explorer wait for the drives to spin down, run process monitor, disable event capture (File -> Capture Events), clear all (Edit -> Clear Display), add new filter (Filter -> Filter...):
Process name.....is not.....iexplore.exe.....then.....Exclude

confirm and run event capture.. start internet explorer and wait for the drive spin up then stop event capture.. look closely in the log (search for your drive letters from the mappings), there will be a lot of stuff in there, just don't be scared

let us know what you find out!

Hi SilentException,

Sorry, I think I'm doing something wrong ?

I followed your instructions and everything is blocked ?

Was I supposed to delete all the filters that were already there before adding the one you said ?

Jack

I had a similar problem. Every time I started my laptop, the drives in my nas would spin up. I'm using Vista and a CH3SNAS. I found it was a shortcut on my desktop to a folder on the nas. Every time the icon of the shortcut was loaded, windows vista refreshed it with thumbnails of some images in the folder. Once I removed the shortcut the spin-ups were gone.

Odd.  I have Google toolbar on every one of my computers and my DNSs do not spin up when opening the browser.

Yes, shortcuts and thumbnails do get updated when they are loaded.