AMD TB 1G w/ A7V

[TonyC]

I need some answers.
I bought a new computer:
TB 1G, A7V, 256meg, ibm 30G, cdrom, Panasoic CDR, ATI Rage Fury 32meg, 10/100 nic, 250w ps.
The computer would go to 'sleep', even when I am using the keyboard. The moniotr wouldgo blank and would not respond to on screen control. Numlock light would not respond. Need to shut down with soft off (4 sec) to shutdown.
However, the computer is available on home network for use of the harddrive.
Please advise. Thanks in advance.

 

[rmblam]

I don't leave my system on all the time so sleep modes are a nuisance to me. They are useful for my laptop but not my desktop...

Here is an alternate fix to what is either a windows or bios problem. Windows might have a patch. I'd check there. Actually it could be a driver issue also. I had the screen go black on me when playing quake once in the middle of the game! I could still hear the action but no screen. I played around with the agp drivers, vid card drivers, and bios settings and it seemed to resolve. I later disabled loadpowerprofile etc.. anyway.

Also, http://members.tripod.de/Juggernaut/index.htm

Go into bios and disable power management.
Use msconfig and unselect load power profile
Go into the energy savings settings and set it to always on and disable monitor sleep (should be unnecessary with load power profile not loaded but...)

 

[Dulanic]

Yes turn off all power managment in the BIOS.

 

[andrey]

A lot of times if your computer is on the network or connected to DSL or Cable modem, it won't go into "sleep" mode because network resources are always in use. Since disconnecting network will be a very good solution, try to upgrade to WindowsME, which has MUCH BETTER power management. I hope that helps,

 

[TonyC]

Thanks for the info.
I had disable all the power management stuff and still happen. Someone mentioned that the 250w power supply may not be enough so the cpu shut down something. Does that make sense?

 

[Fuzzmuncher]

That is pretty low. Especially for a gigger, 300w is probably best.