new machine goes to sleep when I go to bed??? Losing seti WU's every night!!!

[Wiz]

I've had my new machine running for two days and each of the two mornings when I get up and look at it I find it non operational.
The lights are on but nobody's home. I have the screen saver set to blank screen, and it is black but will not "wake up". Lights on keyboard do not change when buttons (NUM LOCK) are pushed.
After a reset button restart checking the seti state file I find it stops shortly after I go to bed.
I have "stand by" turned off in the advanced page of the screen saver control panel, what else should I be looking for here.
I am losing 2 to 3 WU's per night this way and as my distant cousin Cleavis would say "that aint good!!!"

 

[JHutch]

Wiz, it isn't going to sleep... it's crashing. It's probably either device driver related or heat related, but that is a common way I've seen my computer's "crash"

JHutch

 

[CADsortaGUY]

I have a win98 machine that won't come back to life once it shuts certain monitors off. I tried both my 17" monitors and it always crached. I could run it 24/7 when there was no monitor connected though I ended up just sticking an old 15" monitor on it and it has been running eversince. Btw - mine was onboard vid on a P3-600.

Jhutch is right - it is probably a driver issue that freaks when it "shuts off" the monitor, or atleast that is my best guess

CkG

 

[FoBoT]

disable any power saving settings in the BIOS, they override settings inside of windows APM

 

[ColinP]

Trace from the back of the PC (probably COM1) to your bedroom and under your mattress.
I suspect that you will find a cable going from the PC to a pressure pad in your bed.
When you lie down, the circuit is made looping RTS to CTS (pins 4 and 5 on DB-25), this will drop the voltage on pin 5 (CTS) to -5V triggering the hidden monitoring program in your machine to start the hairdryer inside which in turn heats up the CPU causing the computer to crash....

This is probably the most common cause of PC failure along with any OS ending in the letters ...dows

hope that helps,



Col

 

[soni]

Originally posted by: ColinP
Trace from the back of the PC (probably COM1) to your bedroom and under your mattress.
I suspect that you will find a cable going from the PC to a pressure pad in your bed.
When you lie down, the circuit is made looping RTS to CTS (pins 4 and 5 on DB-25), this will drop the voltage on pin 5 (CTS) to -5V triggering the hidden monitoring program in your machine to start the hairdryer inside which in turn heats up the CPU causing the computer to crash....

This is probably the most common cause of PC failure along with any OS ending in the letters ...dows

hope that helps,



Col

LMAO@ColinP

Except for the real explanation as presented by Col, then JHutch might have the answer

 

[JHutch]

I take back my answer. After reading ColinP's, it seems so obvious. Those darn RS232 ports are the ban of computing AND sleeping!

JHutch

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: CADkindaGUY
I have a win98 machine that won't come back to life once it shuts certain monitors off. I tried both my 17" monitors and it always crached. I could run it 24/7 when there was no monitor connected though I ended up just sticking an old 15" monitor on it and it has been running eversince. Btw - mine was onboard vid on a P3-600.

Jhutch is right - it is probably a driver issue that freaks when it "shuts off" the monitor, or atleast that is my best guess

CkG

I had this problem with my current machine back when I ran WindowsME (Ewwwww!) on it. I have not tried it since I converted to XP, opting for the manual monitor shutdown instead.

 

[Wiz]

Thanks,
Colin that would explain it except that I have the com ports disabled in bios.
Wait a minute... where is that 4th USB wire going???

No, really it runs stable doing everything. Running seti and doing time shift TV recording with the TIVO type software the cpu temp only gets up to 42C and everything is absolutely stable.

I'll recheck the bios and see if there is something I am missing there.

 

[Assimilator1]

LMAO ColinP

Wiz
You havent got the HDD set to spin down with no mouse or keyboard activity in the bios have you?

 

[Wiz]

All power saving features that I can find are turned off.
I can turn off screen saver tonight and just power off the monotor manually and see if it makes any differance.

 

[Wiz]

I'm going to upgrade my XP Pro to SP1 and see if that makes any diff.
C ya on the udder side

 

[Robor]

Try setting your PC to not use any screen saver or power down feature on the monitor and see if that might be causing it. I still think JHutch is probably right though. It sounds like your PC is locking up.

Hope XP works out better.

 

[Smoke]

I have noticed when overclocking to the highest possible settings, some computers (all kinds, all OSs, AMD & Intel) tend to crash right as a WU gets finished. There must be a little extra stress put on the system when the CLI CLIENT transmits and receives. Even though the computers seems to running just fine in all other aspects this seems to be the last "stress test" that tells you you need to back off on your OCing settings just a little more.

I know this is not "high tech" but it does describe what I've seen many, many times. I've looked at Sis Sandra stats and other testing software but I always let SETI be my final determining factor.

 

[dmcowen674]

If there is monitoring setting on the MB in the BIOs I set them to ignore.

 

[Wiz]

hmm... I can try that, I think the MB monitoring for the fans & temps are on but I don't think it lets me turn them off.
I'll look at that.
This is an ASUS A7N266-VM mobo with the 1003 bios
There is a 1004 released bios available and a beta 1005 bios I have downloaded but not installed any new ones yet.
I need to find that bios forum again and see if there's some known problems.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Well, I have found a couple of other people that experience a similar problem. The only common factor that we can find is our video cards. :-/ I tried it to check it, since I have been using XP for some time, and it still does it. As soon as the monitor goes off, I try to get it to come back but the machine is gone. Not overclocked or anything, either.

 

[soni]

You might try to update the graphic drivers, "just in case"

 

[Wiz]

yup, did that yesterday - newest from the Nvidia web site, 31.00 and all the updated chipset drivers too.

 

[dmcowen674]

Also try to change the way that the Video shuts the monitor into power save mode. There is DPMS, Vsync blanking, etc. Sometimes they don't get along.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Did it crash when you powered the monitor down manually but left the machine running?

 

[Wiz]

Steve, yes but last night all was good - no problems. Maybe updating to SP1 did the trick. Who knows, all I can say is that problem is behind me.









THanks Guys

 

[Assimilator1]

I leave MB monitoring enabled on all my machines permanently with no problems ,in fact a couple of times it has prevented major damage.
I use MBM 5 ,and though its much more complicated than MBM4 it seems to be a stable program

Put it this way ,would you unplug your engine temperature gauge on your car!?:Q