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08-03-2006, 04:33 PM
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XP Randomly going into standby
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I had a rig here for my sister and windows 2000 was installed on this box and it was all running fine. So I get a copy of windows XP and throw it on and now the rig randomly goes into standby at different times. Any ideas? Cheers Alex |
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08-03-2006, 04:35 PM
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Can you give us the complete specs of the hardware ie: mobo, cpu and power supply?
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08-03-2006, 09:36 PM
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And how much RAM is installed?
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08-04-2006, 07:36 AM
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What are your power management settings in Windows?
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08-08-2006, 10:38 AM
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My PC has been doing that lately (since last week), but it just shuts down; sometimes this happens while I am doing something, not always while on the Internet. I wonder if it could be a bad driver, although I do not recall installing anything new in the past couple of months. Virus and spyware scans come up with nothing wrong.
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08-08-2006, 11:39 AM
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Jerry, that's a slightly different issue, you really need to start your own thread.
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08-08-2006, 03:06 PM
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Issue? Heck, it's become an annoying problem
 ...... I will post this up in a new thread.... can't find any already in progress with my specific problem. All the ones I found with the search seem to be "partial" shutdown... some lights remaining on. where mine goes completely off. I have cleaned the colling pathways, including the CPU duct. Last edited by Jerry Falletta; 08-08-2006 at 03:12 PM. |
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08-09-2006, 02:56 PM
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Jerry, please post your own thread, it's very rude to hijack someone else's thread.
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08-13-2006, 07:18 AM
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Right, I'm extemely sorry for not responding in awhile, there has been alot happening lately and all is not good. Anyway, you asked for the spec of the pc......
ABIT KV-85 Socket 754 DDR400 / ONBOARD 3D VIDEO / 5.1CH AUDIO / SATA RAID / 1600MHz HT / mATX MOTHERBOARD AMD Sempron 3400 [2.0GHZ,754]R 64 Socket 754 64bit Arianet Lifetime 1GB PC3200 DDR Aopen DuW1608 16x DVDRW Silver Dual Layer OEM Arianet MIDI Tower 420W ATX2.0 ATi Radeon 9250 128MB DDR AGP Coolermaster Hyper48 80GB Seagate Barracuda 9 SATA2 8MB The cpu isn't quite that fast as they didn't have it in stock when i bought the machine. It's got a gig of ram and I have changed all the power settings. I just can't see a reason for it. I might strip the pc down and make sure everything is seated ok. Does anyone know if this is hardware related? Thanks alot Alex |
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08-13-2006, 12:14 PM
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Use your Soyo motherboard tester to check the power supply voltages, it won't give an exact reading but it's a reasonable indicator of problems arising with the power supply.
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08-14-2006, 04:53 AM
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I'll give it ago, I sat down and went through it yesterday and then it seemed to only do it when it was underload. Do you think that when the machine is under load the power supply isn't giving enough juice?
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08-14-2006, 07:21 AM
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08-14-2006, 08:37 AM
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There aren't many periphrials connected to the machine, only a printer really. |
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08-14-2006, 02:14 PM
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All the lights stay lit up on the mobo tester. I need a psu tester to be honest. I'm going to try and put the machine under some load and see what happens.
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08-16-2006, 08:48 AM
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Right then gentlemen some new developments.
The computer is going not shutting down as such, basically when the fault occurs all the lights stay on my mobo tester as if the machine is still running, which it is. Also music was playing the last time it happened and it carried on playing....odd??? Also when the monitor is on the light is green, when its sleeping its orange, so when you move the mouse it turns green to come on. But when this fault occurs the monitor light turns red?? and I've never seen that light turn red in all the time I've owned the monitor in 3 years. Any ideas gents? Alex |
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08-16-2006, 10:28 AM
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Either the monitor does not like the resolution and refresh rate you are using, or your video card is overheating, crapping out, or has bad drivers.
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08-17-2006, 03:58 AM
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The monitor has always run at that resolution, 1024 x 768. If the card is over heating is there a way of cooling it. From what I remember the card already has a fan on it.
Thanks Alex |
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