PC wake up.

Red Baron

Red Baron

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Since installing Win 7 32 bit professional I have been having problems with waking my pc up from sleep mode. If I put the pc into sleep mode & press the power button (which I have always done)to boot the pc it will not boot up. I have found the only way to start it is to switch the power off on the switch to the power supply, press the power button & then switch it back on again at the power supply, then it will boot up.
I have a Asus P5B MB, with the latest BIOS & a Intel Core duo 2, 8mb memory.

Any help would be appreciated.
 
hi Red Baron, you may have the same issue as me (I feel like changing to windows 7 was more trouble than it is worth lol), my issue is that by default windows 7 has set my power button to shut my computer down :)

open up control panel, click on System Security, under Power Options click Change what the Power Buttons do. Your problem could be like mine, change the 'when I poress the power button' option to Sleep. I'm guessing that you've been pressing the power button and your system has been shutting down (I hope so, otherwise your problem is elsewhere).
 
Getting the same issue on Windows 7 x64 with my Asus P5N7A-VM. It will go to sleep fine but about 50% of the time it will not wake up properly, it'll either power up for a few seconds and go back off or stay powered on with fans at 100% doing nothing. Like you I have to switch the PSU off, press the power button to drain any remaining power, switch the PSU on and then press the power button again.

Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, Latest BIOS
 
davethe11 said:
hi Red Baron, you may have the same issue as me (I feel like changing to windows 7 was more trouble than it is worth lol), my issue is that by default windows 7 has set my power button to shut my computer down :)

open up control panel, click on System Security, under Power Options click Change what the Power Buttons do. Your problem could be like mine, change the 'when I poress the power button' option to Sleep. I'm guessing that you've been pressing the power button and your system has been shutting down (I hope so, otherwise your problem is elsewhere).
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Yes already tried that one, it was the first thing I did - alter the Power Buttons.
 
apologies, I didn't read the original post thoroughly and got a bad grasp of the symptoms. Found a web page here that has possible solutions. One that seems promising is this:

control panel
System and Security
Power options
change plan settings
change advanced power settings
USB settings
change USB selective suspend setting to Disabled
 
my shuttle wont ever wake up from sleep at all - or rather my graphics card wont at the very least

all the fans seem to start up agian I just get no graphics at all (boot info or anything )

just switched it off in the end as I rarely need it anyway
 
davethe11 said:
apologies, I didn't read the original post thoroughly and got a bad grasp of the symptoms. Found a web page here that has possible solutions. One that seems promising is this:

control panel
System and Security
Power options
change plan settings
change advanced power settings
USB settings
change USB selective suspend setting to Disabled
Click to expand...

Yes seems to be doing the job, thanks a lot.
 
Red Baron, I know you say you've always been doing it that way, but putting the PC to sleep should allow you to wake it by moving your mouse or hitting a key on your keyboard. Hibernating, now that shuts you PC down but saves the state and that requires you to hit the power button
Either way, I've had problems with the missus's PC not coming out of sleep. In the BIOS I had to change the power management setting ACPI Suspend type from S3(STR) to S1(Pos) and it worked fine afterwards. May want to give this a try
 
I believe I have finally cracked it. Carried out the USB adjustments as above & then changed the "moon" button on the keyboard & in "choose what the power buttons do" to hibernate & not sleep. Changed the keyboard & mouse function to "not wake the computer".
All seems now to be working.
 
glad you got it working, so your system goes into hibernation mode now and not sleep mode? or this change puts your computer into sleep mode (even though you have selected hibernation mode), just curious for reference
 
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