Computer goes into Standby after playing 3d for a minute...

[aphex]

Just built the computer yesterday, and when i run any 3d benchmarking program the monitor goes into standy (amber light) after about 45 sec - 1 min into the 3d program. (3dmark2001se and the same with 3dmark2003)

My Specs:
Athlon 2400+
Soltek FRN-L
AOpen ti4200 128DDR Vivo


any ideas?

 

[Shalmanese]

check your bios

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Shalmanese
check your bios

dont be too descriptive now

for?

 

[aphex]

Noticed its not just my monitor, its my whole computer going into standby.

 

[JBT]

there should be a stand by option in your bios. u would probably need to disable that. Not sure why its only going into this in 3d apps...

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: JBTele
there should be a stand by option in your bios. u would probably need to disable that. Not sure why its only going into this in 3d apps...

Would that be involved with the ACPI power mgmt? Cause when i disabled that, i couldnt even boot to windows.

 

[308nato]

Do you happen to (on purpose or by accident) have a key set up to put your pc to sleep/hibernate/standby ? Maybe you are enabling this function somehow while in game ?

Leave ACPI power management enabled in your bios, just set to disable/ignore etc. all the items listed under it. See if that helps by chance.

 

[aphex]

Still not workin

 

[aphex]

I checked my event viewer after it happened again, this error came up:

"The device, \Device\Scsi\nvidesm1, did not respond within the timeout period.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."

 

[aphex]

Ok i was able to remove that error code by Rolling back the MS Native drivers on the IDE Controller....

However, the system still goes into standby after 20 seconds of playing a game

 

[308nato]

Try "set bios to defaults" if you haven't already.

If that doesn't work, do you have another power supply available to try a swap ?