My pc won't come back on from stand by mode.

[shohoku]

I don't know what's causing this but it is very annoying. Since it won't come back on no matter what I do, I have to restart it. Anyone had this problem??

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

What OS & SP are you using?
Tas.

 

[shohoku]

WinXP and SP 2

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

In all honesty, I've ran into this before, but never on such a new OS. What I did, was disable standby. I either just shut it off, or set it to hibernate. Stand-by is useless if you have hibernation enabled. Go into the power options in your control panel to change all that...
Tas.

 

[2Xtreme21]

This happens on my laptop all the time; though, it inevitably does end up coming back on. But yeah, never use stand by heh.

 

[shoRunner]

you may see if they have put out a newer bios that fixes the problem. i've known of a few computer that had this problem and it was fixed with a bios flash

 

[Pr0d1gy]

My computer was doing that because i had shorted the mobo on accident. It was my first build. I hope that's not why yours is doing it.

 

[monster64]

On my new system I couldnt get it to turn on from standby and I pressed the power button to turn it off, but that actually got it out of standby LOL. Try it, it might work.

 

[Warthog912]

Originally posted by: tasburrfoot78362
In all honesty, I've ran into this before, but never on such a new OS. What I did, was disable standby. I either just shut it off, or set it to hibernate. Stand-by is useless if you have hibernation enabled. Go into the power options in your control panel to change all that...
Tas.

agreed. Standby usually causes more problems that not. It is more beneficial IMO to use Hibernation.

 

[shohoku]

Thanks for the inputs guys but this never happened to me before. I guess I'll just do not use stand by mode.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Specs? If you've got the EPOX board, update your BIOS and get the latest Forceware (6.66 --> SATAN!) - this seemed to fix the problems for the people I've seen.

 

[w00t]

i have heard standby is bad for ur pc because it puts everything on ur ram that it has to rember instead of ur hd.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Standby doesn't really do much except idle your harddrives. Just switch off your monitor and you're fine. No need for useless "Power Consumption Is Bad" crap. Turn on Cool 'n Quiet and you'll be using up less energy 😉.

-TPG

 

[shohoku]

Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
Specs? If you've got the EPOX board, update your BIOS and get the latest Forceware (6.66 --> SATAN!) - this seemed to fix the problems for the people I've seen.

Abit NF7-S 2.0
Athlon XP Barton 2500+ OC'ed to 3200+
Corsair XMS PC 3200 1GB ( 2 x 512MB)
Sapphire Radeon X800 Pro OC'ed to XT
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Seagate 200GB 7200RPM 8MB cache
Water Cooling

That's about it. The basic setup I mean.😎