Problem with leaving PC on overnight

mrochester · 13 Jul 2006 at 10:15

Hi there. Occassionally I leave my PC on overnight because it is busy doing something. However, by the morning I can pretty much guarantee that it will have crashed and I'll have to hit the reset button. Upon turning the monitor on, it is in standby mode, but no amount of mashing the keyboard or moving the mouse brings it out. The actual PC does seem to respond to things though... the hard disk had some activity when I disconnected and reconnected the bluetooth dongle and when I inserted a DVD. So it almost seems as if the computer is fully active, it's just that the graphics card or monitor refuses to wake up. Any advice as to how I can find out what's going on?

Cheers,

Michael.

mrochester · 13 Jul 2006 at 10:32

I've taken a look in Event Viewer and the last thing that happened at 2:09am was Win Defender performing a scan. There were no errors or warnings. The next event after this was when I restarted the computer this morning.

mrochester · 13 Jul 2006 at 11:47

ted34 said:
Go into power options and tell it to stop being lazy

That isn't much use when the rest of the time you want the monitor to go into standby mode after 10 minutes or so.

mrochester · 13 Jul 2006 at 12:20

Mr Men said:
You can set the monitor to go to standby on its own, leaving the rest of the PC running fine

That's exactly what it does then in the morning the monitor won't come out of standby mode. The PC doesn't go into standby mode, it remains switched on.

mrochester · 13 Jul 2006 at 13:30

babyface uk said:
set the monitor not to go into standby mode, then turn it off at the button.

Babyface UK

Then I have to keep changing the setting for when I do want the monitor to go into standby mode.

The keyboard and mouse are both USB. Tapping a key or moving the mouse brings the monitor out of standby mode just about every other time, it just doens't seem to like doing it after the computer has been on all night.