Problems recovering from sleep in Windows 7

madindehead · 20 Oct 2009 at 13:15

As the title says, I am having problems with my PC recovering from sleep in Windows 7. I put it into sleep today, went out for around an hour and came back. I booted the PC up, and it didn't go into Windows properly. The keyboard and mouse are recognised, and it gets past POST fine, but it will not go into Windows for some reason. Rig is in sig. Anyone got any ideas what it could be?

madindehead · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:01

bledd. said:
correct ram voltage set?

Yeah. I'm running my RAM at 1.64V as I can't select 1.65V exactly. Maybe 1.66V instead?

marc2003 said:
i have a much older mobo than you but i have problems with windows sleep if power saving turns off the hard drive first. by default, it's set to power off the hard drive after 20 minutes and then sleep after 30 minutes.

if i set the hard drive to never turn off by setting the timeout to 0, recovering from sleep works fine.

I might try setting the hard drive to never turn off. Might be worth a try.

madindehead · 23 Oct 2009 at 13:07

Sorry to post again in here, but I'm still having problems recovering from sleep in Windows 7. When I start the PC, the monitor just stays black. The PC powers up it seems, but nothing happens. Anyone got any ideas as to what could be causing this?

madindehead · 23 Oct 2009 at 17:09

Anyone got any ideas? Sorry to bump, but with 117 views, I'm sure someone knows =)

madindehead · 23 Oct 2009 at 17:55

Ah nice. Thanks mate =)

Edit: Ran it. It generated the report. The report didn't really help me much sadly. Was all a bit confusing. And told me some stuff I already knew.

madindehead · 23 Oct 2009 at 18:12

Faustus said:
I used to have this issue with one of my older PC using Vista - go into BIOS and alter the STR setting, this usually cures it.

STR setting?

madindehead · 25 Oct 2009 at 12:50

Thanks mate,. I will have a look at this later. Seems to recover ok when STR is set to S1.

Will test S3 later. It also hibernates fine.

madindehead · 25 Oct 2009 at 16:46

I'm already running the F7 bios on my UD5.

Tried again, and again same problem. The PC seems to boot ok, but the monitor doesn't respond. I switch off the PC by holding the button, and when it reboots, it says resuming Windows. Very strange. I put my RAM voltage to 1.66V, as that may have been the problem. But the PC runs fine with RAM at 1.64V. Stupid Gigabyte BIOS won't let you select 1.65V exactly.

Edit: Took the side off my PC to see the debug display as it booted. I started the PC up, and all it said was E1. I couldn't find out what E1 means in the manual. Anyone know what this could mean?

madindehead · 26 Oct 2009 at 12:17

mrgubby said:
I had exactly the same problem with a PC running Vista, now I've moved over to Windows 7 it's fixed. Maybe it could be a ACPI driver problem ??

Well, the thing is, it used to work fine with the RTM build. That was Windows 7 Ultimate. Now I'm running Pro retail, and it doesn't work properly. It's very annoying and weird. I don't understand it.

Anyone else got any ideas on what could be causing it?

madindehead · 26 Oct 2009 at 14:28

I've changed my SATA controller back to IDE mode, and everything seems to have fixed itself. Don't have a clue what was going on there. Decided it's not worth running AHCI if I can't use sleep properly.