Hard drives spin when power is applied and then they spin at rated RPM,
NOT uncontrollably! You perhaps are talking about maybe the DVD or CD?
And what may be this TIS 2008 you installed? Perhaps the cause is that
software? What is the software supposed to do?

K2NNJ wrote:

> I don't know what triggers it, but the above happens and sometimes if I
> wait it stops, and sometimes I have to reboot while it's spinning.
>
> The only thing I did yesterday was uninstall TIS 2008, and re-install
> because my firewall failed to start.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.