powersave?

[jubei]

Hey guys,

If i leave my new rig on overnight it seems to have a bad habit of going to a sleep mode or maybe crashing i am not sure.

Ran prime95 for 7 odd hours the other night and got back to computer in morning and was fine, had a blank screen but hitting input button on monitor a couple times sorted it.

Last night i went to bed leaving a game server running and when i got back to it this morning even repeatedly toggling the input didnt get my picture back. Some keyboard mashing eventually got me to the vista task manager menu but i cldnt click anything on it and ended up hard rebooting.

Could this be some kind of sleep or powersave feature that i am not aware of in vista or bios?

 

[Admiral Huddy]

Vista sets power save by default iirc.

Pressing the power button wakes the system..

You can changes these settings in the Power Settings under control panel.

 

[jubei]

Ah thanks man looks like my computer was being put to sleep. Is there any danger in stopping computer going to sleep mode and stopping monitor turning off so long as i turn the monitor off manually when i am outside of the room?

 

[Admiral Huddy]

You can do what you want. Sleep or hibernation makes no difference. I find it quite usefull at weekends when the family are on and off the machine. Saves booting up etc.. Weekdays it gets used less so it's off mostly.