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New mobo, computer will not sleep now?

Kabob

Kabob

Lifer
I recently bought a new ASRock X58 Extreme board and reformatted my drives, then installed my windows updates and some other standard stuff. Now for some reason my computer will not go to sleep. On the old board when I put the computer to sleep everything appeared to power down but could be brought back up with the touch of a button. With my new board though the monitor goes to standby but everything in the tower appears to keep running at full speed.

A friend mentioned that some motherboard do this but I'd never heard of it before but I'll admit I don't know a lot about ASRock boards in general. I'm thinking possibly some sort of hardware issue? Is there an easy way to determine?

Specs are:
ASRock X58 Extreme (latest BIOS)
Intel i7-930 w/standard s1366 HSF
3x2GB Corsair DDR3
XFX 6850 HD
OCZ Vertex 4 SSD (latest firmware)
Corsair HX-650v2

Thanks!
 
Ensure that you've installed the proper drivers (eg, chipset drivers) for your MB. Typically there is a utility disk that comes with the MB (actually never bought a new MB that didnt come with one). There also appears to be a mess of updates for that board, but none per se are power related, but nevertheless could apply as there are CPU, SATA and RAM related updates for the various OSes including Windows.
 
corkyg said:
Check all your power settings, BIOS and Windows.
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I'll check my BIOS settings but it was a brand new board and other than the update flash I've not touched them.

C1 said:
Ensure that you've installed the proper drivers (eg, chipset drivers) for your MB. Typically there is a utility disk that comes with the MB (actually never bought a new MB that didnt come with one). There also appears to be a mess of updates for that board, but none per se are power related, but nevertheless could apply as there are CPU, SATA and RAM related updates for the various OSes including Windows.
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I actually haven't installed the latest chipset drivers, I will get these tonight and see if that makes a difference. As for the updates I see lots of utility updates but other than BIOS (which I've already updates to 2.9) none seem power related.

Thanks guys!
 
Someone mentioned checking to see if Suspend To Ram was disabled in my BIOS, which it was. Enabling it fixed the issue.

I feel a lil' foolish for not checking that but it's done, thanks to everyone!
 
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