Re: Odd computer problem
Hactar
Ray <westca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My computer goes into, and comes out of, sleep mode during the day
> just fine. But if I put it in sleep mode at night, it won't wake up in
> the morning. (HD spins up and makes appropriate noises, but monitor
> stays blank.) Cycling the monitor off/on doesn't help; I have to do a
> hard boot. (Slightly suspect a USB device, as occasionally I get five
> beeps from the BIOS on a cold start until I unplug all the USB
> devices.)
Possibly when you attempt to wake it up after overnight, its "thought
process" goes something like:
,--
| Begin wake up
|
| Load RAM contents
|
| Load drivers
|
| ...
|
| Check user activity -> mouse hasn't moved and no key was pressed in the
| last ~10 hours, so put the monitor to sleep
|
| OK, I'm up
'--
And it skips the important step of waking up the monitor when you move
the mouse or press a key. So try going to the "Power" control panel and
telling it never to put the monitor to sleep when you're on AC power.
And remember, you can almost always do a clean shutdown by pressing the
power button for <4 seconds. Or do a reboot by ctrl-esc (bring up the
start menu) up_arrow ("Shut Down" item) enter bunch_of_R_arrows (goes to
"reboot") enter.
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Ray
> In article <3d2afbfd-2096-40e6-9940-471be55a9...@k17g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
>
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Thanks; I'll try that tonight. The other stuff I did (never hibernate,
no updates overnight) didn't work.
http://snipurl.com/t4y3d seems to think it's an SP3 bug (hibernate
problem, not sleep, but may be similar issue).
--
Ray