Dad's Machine Crashes On Wake-Up

[GTaudiophile]

Whenever I put my dad's machine on stand-by, and then try to wake it up, the HD starts to spin then the whole machine powers down/turns off. It sounds like a PS issue to me. He's got a generic 300w in there now. Should I swap it out with the spare 330w Enermax I have laying around?

 

[StattlichPassat]

Not necessarily- what operating system is this? I remember seeing a Windows Update patch for this, but can't remember which Windows version it was for...

If you don't know, just do a Windows Update and get everything available. Should fix the problem. If it doesn't, THEN you have a hardware problem most likely. At that point, I'd start criticizing your PSU. Get back to me and lemme know what you find out.

EDIT: Duh- just checked your Rig link... that patch may have been for 2K- check up on that.

 

[Mark R]

Probably a buggy driver or service.

Could be for anything: modem, printer, net card, sound card, graphics card. It could be a device which doesn't work properly, e.g. a CD-RW which is configured to use DMA although it doesn't fully support it (e.g. TDK 12/10/32).

Uninstall all non-critical drivers, and disable all services - then use standby, each time restarting one service or adding one driver - repeat until you find the culprit, then either update the driver, or replace the hardware.

This was happening on my system due to a Lexmark printer - I was using the latest driver, so in the end I had to disable standby because I didn't want to get rid of the printer.