Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 (overclocked stably to 3.2GHz)
Asus P5K Premium WiFi motherboard
nVidia 8800GT graphics card
BeQuiet Darkpower 650 power supply
4Gb Corsair RAM
1 x Samsung Spinpoint 500Gb
1 x Seagate Barracuda 1Tb
Antec 902 case
Windows 7 Home Premium
I posted this query on another website a couple of months ago. It was suggested to me that it was "The Windows 7 sleep problem", although having researched it further, I'm not convinced.
This is a system that I built myself, and which has been running with no problems except for one increasingly infuriating intermittent one. Very infrequently, perhaps once or twice a week, it refuses to wake from its sleep state without a herculean struggle. The screen remains either black or frozen on the desktop while the fans speed up alarmingly until they are literally screaming (the temperature of the exhausted air remains unremarkable though). The disk light flashes constantly. This lasts until either the system suddenly pops into life and the fans settle down, or I lose my nerve and force a reboot. After that, everything works again as normal. This morning I waited for just over fifteen minutes before initiating a restart. Every so often after a forced reboot - perhaps less than ten percent of the time - the system forgets the overclock settings.
My fault diagnosis skills only take me so far with this one. I know it's not the motherboard, as I had the same issue with a spare Gigabyte m/b I had to use for a couple of months while my regular one was being repaired. Also, I don't believe it has anything to do with the overclock, as I can compress and convert video all day without a glitch. It's just when the system goes idle that the problem appears. It's not the Seagate drive, as that was installed fairly recently.
It seems that the culprit is one, or a combination of, the power supply, the graphics card, the Samsung drive, or even Windows 7.
My sanity is now hanging by a thread, so any insight will be greatly appreciated.
Steve S.
Asus P5K Premium WiFi motherboard
nVidia 8800GT graphics card
BeQuiet Darkpower 650 power supply
4Gb Corsair RAM
1 x Samsung Spinpoint 500Gb
1 x Seagate Barracuda 1Tb
Antec 902 case
Windows 7 Home Premium
I posted this query on another website a couple of months ago. It was suggested to me that it was "The Windows 7 sleep problem", although having researched it further, I'm not convinced.
This is a system that I built myself, and which has been running with no problems except for one increasingly infuriating intermittent one. Very infrequently, perhaps once or twice a week, it refuses to wake from its sleep state without a herculean struggle. The screen remains either black or frozen on the desktop while the fans speed up alarmingly until they are literally screaming (the temperature of the exhausted air remains unremarkable though). The disk light flashes constantly. This lasts until either the system suddenly pops into life and the fans settle down, or I lose my nerve and force a reboot. After that, everything works again as normal. This morning I waited for just over fifteen minutes before initiating a restart. Every so often after a forced reboot - perhaps less than ten percent of the time - the system forgets the overclock settings.
My fault diagnosis skills only take me so far with this one. I know it's not the motherboard, as I had the same issue with a spare Gigabyte m/b I had to use for a couple of months while my regular one was being repaired. Also, I don't believe it has anything to do with the overclock, as I can compress and convert video all day without a glitch. It's just when the system goes idle that the problem appears. It's not the Seagate drive, as that was installed fairly recently.
It seems that the culprit is one, or a combination of, the power supply, the graphics card, the Samsung drive, or even Windows 7.
My sanity is now hanging by a thread, so any insight will be greatly appreciated.
Steve S.
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