The Sleep of sleeps

[John]

Hi hope someone can help, Kind of in a bind, PC - hp a730n


I installed Vista, everything great worked fine, changed power profile
(created a new one) monitor does not go off, computer does not sleep,
and disk always on, CPU max power... in attempt to bring up my overall
rating, which it did by .2

Several days later I found what is or like the sleep mode to the right
on
the start menu, before the small menu for shut down and restart etc.
Well I pressed it and everything faded out. moved mouse to start it
back up,
"nothing". Pressed power switch, it would not even turn on the fan.
All that I see is the power supply flashing

I've unplugged the power, waited for flashing to stop, re plugged and
press
power on, nothing. I've unplugged power supply connectors to mother
board
I then get a solid light on the PS, but when plugged back it
blinks.....

was this the sleep of all time

At a lose what's going on
this is my PC
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...251&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=431078&lang=en

 

[Don]

...Pressed power switch, it would not even turn on the fan.
All that I see is the power supply flashing

I've unplugged the power, waited for flashing to stop, re plugged and
press
power on, nothing. I've unplugged power supply connectors to mother
board
I then get a solid light on the PS, but when plugged back it
blinks.....

Certainly sounds like a defective power supply to me. If it's not
still under warranty, you can replace the PS for about $50 or so.
Always pays to go for higher wattage.

 

[John]

Yeah it did I tested it unplugged it from board and solid light,,, I
think vista's new low power sends a low(5V) to PS and also new PC's
store also in CPU... when in past when U clicked power button it want
to bios (bootstrap} , tested devices etc now it also looks at CPU ,
which, I think stores the low(in rest state) thus no power up...
others also have this prob and similar problems arising around low
power state
wondering how to cause a High(to active) stat

John