- Jun 6, 2010
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I still have Windows 7 Pro. I had to use 8 and 10 at work and just wanted to stay with 7, thank you. It's a custom built desktop from a local computer guy, built back when 7 was the thing.
For a long long time i have set the Power Options to go to sleep after 15 minutes. Works fine, just come in and set down my coffee and hit the Any Key and in seconds I am good to go.
A couple of weeks ago I came in to find the power button dead. Usually the power button is illuminated with a blue ring around it. Now it was blank, dead. Instead of a keyboard wakeup, I had to push the power button. It spun up and after a bit of a wait the black screen said "Resuming Windows" and then I got a cursor arrow and nothing else, then again it went black for minutes. So I figured it went into Hibernate. (I have never done Hibernate so I dont know for sure). Finally it began to come to life but in bits and pieces. The desktop background screen appeared but no taskbar, no icons. For several more minutes one piece after another would come on, but nothing that worked. The windows that were open when I left it would start to appear but were not active. When they finally filled in and looked ok, clicking on them froze them and got the "(Not Responding)" thing at the end of the title bar. If I opened another program, it would take minutes to get up and going. Things like that.
In the end it took maybe 10 minutes before I was fully functional.
So I did a restart and it came up normally. I thought that would be the end of it. But since then it has happened maybe 6 or 7 times. I come and go from my computer a number of times a day (I am retired, home most of the time) and it still usually goes to sleep and wakes up normally. But now it has happened 3 times in the last 2 days.
It's a big pain and I cant find anything on the web to clue me as to what could be going on.
I do a system backup with EaseUS Todo, maybe once every week or two, but I'm reluctant to restore the only image I have that goes back far enough to precede this behavior, unless it gets critical. I have used the backups to retrieve stuff but never yet for a full disk restore, and that kind of thing makes me a bit queasy.
Ever hear of this kind of misbehavior?
For a long long time i have set the Power Options to go to sleep after 15 minutes. Works fine, just come in and set down my coffee and hit the Any Key and in seconds I am good to go.
A couple of weeks ago I came in to find the power button dead. Usually the power button is illuminated with a blue ring around it. Now it was blank, dead. Instead of a keyboard wakeup, I had to push the power button. It spun up and after a bit of a wait the black screen said "Resuming Windows" and then I got a cursor arrow and nothing else, then again it went black for minutes. So I figured it went into Hibernate. (I have never done Hibernate so I dont know for sure). Finally it began to come to life but in bits and pieces. The desktop background screen appeared but no taskbar, no icons. For several more minutes one piece after another would come on, but nothing that worked. The windows that were open when I left it would start to appear but were not active. When they finally filled in and looked ok, clicking on them froze them and got the "(Not Responding)" thing at the end of the title bar. If I opened another program, it would take minutes to get up and going. Things like that.
In the end it took maybe 10 minutes before I was fully functional.
So I did a restart and it came up normally. I thought that would be the end of it. But since then it has happened maybe 6 or 7 times. I come and go from my computer a number of times a day (I am retired, home most of the time) and it still usually goes to sleep and wakes up normally. But now it has happened 3 times in the last 2 days.
It's a big pain and I cant find anything on the web to clue me as to what could be going on.
I do a system backup with EaseUS Todo, maybe once every week or two, but I'm reluctant to restore the only image I have that goes back far enough to precede this behavior, unless it gets critical. I have used the backups to retrieve stuff but never yet for a full disk restore, and that kind of thing makes me a bit queasy.
Ever hear of this kind of misbehavior?