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bertieboy
The other night, I put my XP Pro into standby (start/turnoff/standby)
which I do several times a day. The system appeared to shut down, the
screen went black, but after watching some TV, a couple of hours later I
noticed that the disk activity light was flashing at low intensity. When
I pressed on/off to get it out of standby, nothing happened. It just sat
there, light flashing. Pressing reset did nothing so I had to power off
at the rear of system.
When I turned system on again, no power, no lights came on, pressing
start button did nothing. After a few hours of trying different things,
checking connectors and so on, I occasionally got power, fans running,
lights on but it still wouldn't startup. I also disconnected the single
disk drive yet the disk activity light still flashed!
After a day and a half, I managed to start it up and made sure all my
data was safe. I put it into standby again and the same thing happened,
failed to come out of standby, no power etc. I managed to get it going
the next day by turning power off then on fairly quickly and it burst
into life. Standby is now verboten for a while!
This is a 6 weeks old Intel core duo E6600 on an Asus P5VD2-VM. I did
notice that in power settings (r/click
desktop/properties/screensaver/power that turn off disks and standby are
set to never. Would this account for my problem? I'm reluctant to
experiment as I can't afford for it to get stuck again. I'm about to
call out an engineer but I wanted to check out here first.
It does seem to me to be to do with power saving, so cpu perhaps. or
mobo?
which I do several times a day. The system appeared to shut down, the
screen went black, but after watching some TV, a couple of hours later I
noticed that the disk activity light was flashing at low intensity. When
I pressed on/off to get it out of standby, nothing happened. It just sat
there, light flashing. Pressing reset did nothing so I had to power off
at the rear of system.
When I turned system on again, no power, no lights came on, pressing
start button did nothing. After a few hours of trying different things,
checking connectors and so on, I occasionally got power, fans running,
lights on but it still wouldn't startup. I also disconnected the single
disk drive yet the disk activity light still flashed!
After a day and a half, I managed to start it up and made sure all my
data was safe. I put it into standby again and the same thing happened,
failed to come out of standby, no power etc. I managed to get it going
the next day by turning power off then on fairly quickly and it burst
into life. Standby is now verboten for a while!
This is a 6 weeks old Intel core duo E6600 on an Asus P5VD2-VM. I did
notice that in power settings (r/click
desktop/properties/screensaver/power that turn off disks and standby are
set to never. Would this account for my problem? I'm reluctant to
experiment as I can't afford for it to get stuck again. I'm about to
call out an engineer but I wanted to check out here first.
It does seem to me to be to do with power saving, so cpu perhaps. or
mobo?