computer wont standby!

[otispunkmeyer]

i cant believe this.

my first A64 build always blue screened on been told to hibernate or standby. it would start saying windows is shutting down yadda yadda yadda then jus when you think its going into standby, you catch a slight glimps of the BSOD, before it reboots

now on my 2nd A64 build, different mobo, gpu, cpu, same HDD, CD Drives.
and it does the same thing

i reckon the Winxp pro disc i have is FUBAR

or is there some setting i have to have on in the bios? i dont get what S1, S3 and the like are. or what they mean

 

[dullard]

Standby is for laptops only. Desktop components are usually not designed nor tested for standby. Forget about it.

 

[BigLan]

Actually, desktop components are designed for standby, but there's usually a few problems with it.

Try looking in the bios for the standby options - there's usually 2 options s1 and s2 (pos and STR) - try the other setting to what it now is.

Another option would be to use hibernation. You have to enable it in the power properties section, then to use it click start - shutdown and press H. I think if you hold down shift or ctrl the standby option schanges to hibernate, but pressing H will work.

 

[w00t]

stand-by loads everything to your ram and shuts down the rest of the pc well what it needs to i heard its actually bad for the computer. stand-by is rather stupid anyways.

 

[OzzieGT]

Sorry I can't help with your standby problems but I would like to say that the people who responded to your thread are, with the exception of biglan, a little ignorant to say the least.

Standby does work on desktop machines, you just need to have good drivers and make sure you have good hardware. I never was able to get standby to work before but my new A64 rig runs perfectly.

Standby is great because you can hit standby at night if you don't need the computer on and then in the morning it comes back on in 5 seconds...no waiting for it to boot.

 

[OzzieGT]

Btw,

S1 doesn't shut down your fans and all that. S3 does. So S3 uses a lot less power and really feels like the computer is "off". S1 uses less power than fully on but you don't get the benefits of your fans turning off.

You might want to set up your system so it doesn't reboot on blue screen, that way you can maybe see what files are causing the blue screen.