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[Help] Can't post system after sleep (p5q pro)

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plion

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p5q pro
e8400
4gb gskill
vista 64

I accidently clicked on sleep instead of restart and I tried to bring it back pressing keys, mouse, power button and nothing. So I unplug power cord and turn off psu wait 10 seconds and plug everything in and boot, but it doesn't post! All the fans load up at 100% and nothing happens no bios then shuts off and turns on and stays with the fans on. I'm trying the same thing again as I type this, I would like to avoird resetting bios. Anyways what the hell happened? This is a 24 prime stable/4occt stable system..
 
I really don't like the factory default settings on this board, as far as the power savings and standby mode options. I think one of the culprits is the timeout period selected for searching for attached HDDs. I ended up changing a lot of the options, and I've gotten it to the point where it behaves the way I prefer (a few seconds to go into and out of standby).

Anyways, I experienced something similar to you the very first time I put it into standby, where the board seemed like it wasn't waking up (in reality, it was just taking a very long time to do it - if you wait, it will eventually wake up). I kept pushing the case power button hoping to get a response (which was probably interrupting the wake process). Eventually the board just cold booted (and it apparently reset itself back to default BIOS settings), instead of waking into Windows.

I might post my preferred BIOS standby settings if I find some time when I get home, to see if you like those instead of the defaults.
 
thank you amberclad, maybe if you could tell me which setting affects it the most? I'm very new to intel since I've been using amd boards for a while.
 
I think the most important setting is "IDE Detect Time Out". The default is 35 seconds. I either changed it to 0 or 5 seconds, can't recall exactly which. (SATA drives are treated as IDE, if you don't enable AHCI.)

Let me know if that doesn't fix it - there were various other changes I made, like changing suspend mode to S3 Only, so I'm not 100% sure that was the setting that did the trick.
 
Just tried sleep and it seems to work fine now, I also enabled c1e and c-state so I don't know which setting did it but it works fine.
 
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