Hi all!
I've been looking around for an answer to this with no real solution so I'd figure I'd ask here.
Just recently built a brand new system with the above motherboard, Intel i7-2700k, 16gb Corsair Vengeance ram, Corsair AX850 Gold series PSU. All settings are default for now, no overclocking yet.
System boots fine, runs fine, stays up for days, no problem at all EXCEPT for an odd issue where RANDOMLY, just out of nowhere, the HDD light will turn on solid and stay on. However there is NO actual disk activity. I've checked using Resource monitor and Process monitor to try and see if there really is a massive amount of disk activity that'd make the light go on and stay on... but no, there is no disk activity. Running a 'software' HDD light also shows there is nothing beyond the occasional flash.
When the light goes solid, NOTHING out of the ordinary happens. The system doesn't hiccup at all, there are NO freezes, as is common with this sort of issue. System is running perfectly fine, and will continue to run fine as I've simply left it be for days after the light goes on just to see if it will BSOD or otherwise fall over on me. Nope... Continues to run as if nothing is wrong but the light simply won't go off until the system is rebooted. A soft reboot from 'restart windows' will do.
After rebooting the light will go off and everything will be back to normal, then the light will come on and stay on again after a RANDOM period of time has passed. It could be a hours... days... the longest is a week before it came on. Once again when the light does come on, there is absolutely nothing out of the ordinary happening and the system does NOT exhibit symptoms of any fault. If the HDD LED itself was on the top of the case where I can't see it I honestly wouldn't even know it came on. But since it's on the front where I CAN see it... I'll eventually notice.
Any ideas? Or has this even happened to anyone at all, ever? I've tried googling around and all symptoms of 'HDD light comes on solid' is attributed to freezes and hiccups, doesn't help me as I have NO FAULT WHATSOEVER beyond just the damn light coming on.
Some light shed (ha ha...) would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance all!