system goes to sleep and won't fully wake up

[DanielD]

I'm running an ECS K7S5A w/ an XP1600, windows 98.

I'm having a problem after installing a new video card and new CD writer. (replaced old ones).
The new card is an ATI AIW-7500.

The problem, I have is that when I leave the system alone for a while and return, the system is in standby mode (black screen, disk powered down). Normaly, moving the mouse and/or hitting a key will wake it up. Now, all that happens is the cursor comes up, but the rest of the screen stays black. After entering a few keystrokes, the system beeps (lock up) and the cursor freezes (oh, and I can see the hard drive flicker a couple of times). At this point I can usually control-al-del to reboot (a few times, I had to actually press the reset button).

I did not have this problem before the upgrade.

I tried to turn off standby (windows 98 power management) but it still seems to go into stanby mode anyway. I have not tried to turn it off in the bios. I would prefer to have the standby working.

I looked at the bios updates on the ECS site, but didn't see anything that looked related to this problem.

I did have some trouble initially installing the tuner portion of the card, but that was corrected by using new ATI drivers from their site. I also tried installing the latest windows 98 updates as well as directX 8.1b


anyone have any ideas ?

 

[SemperFi]

My Ati AIW Radeon has been doing this at least once a week since I installed XP. The latest drivers that just came out last week or so seems to of helped. I also used to get errors related to ati drivers alot I haven't got any of these since I upgraded the drivers.

Hope this helps.

Semper Fi

 

[Sarivol]

I just started having this same problem. The system is an old HP Pentium 200 running windows98. I have not made any changes to the system and for about the last month is does the blinking cursor in the corner thing and won't wake up and I have to reboot. It has been fine for the last four years (except for the hard drive failure last year ) and now all of a sudden it just won't wake up. Any ideas?