Hello again, This is the second laptop I have got where this happens. There is tiny hard drive activity consistently every 2-3 secs. By "tiny" I mean I can hear the hard drive make a small noise for a split second. Sometimes its so small that the hard drive activity light doesn't come on. The problem is that it happens consistently every 2-3 secs...very annoying and also causes me to be suspect. Top doesn't show any interesting. I am using KDE 3.3.2. Does anyone have any ideas about what might be causing this? Are there some services or daemons that I can turn off? Thanks for the help.