Windows XP is not programmed to stay off the harddisk. It not only sweeps memory off to the paging file, but may be writing to log files, as events occur.
Nothing in your post suggests an issue.
Bob
My red LED for hard drive access flickers a lot lately wether I am playing a game, or surfing the net. and when it is doing that I can not do anything untill it stops then it is OK. I thought maybe it was running out of menory and accessing the HD for virtual memory so I upgraded my Ram. But it still does it. Any advice? Here are my specs
Shuttle AK35GT2 MB with the latest Bios
AMD Athalon XP 2200+ CPU
512 meg crucial PC2700 Ram
Santa Cruz 5.1 sound card
G-Force 3 64 meg DDR AGP video card
Windows XP pro SP1 OS

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