- Jul 16, 2013
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I built my own rig about 7-8 months ago, and after a slew of initial problems (mostly self inflicted) its been running fine. Then I moved in to my new house.
About 50% of the times that I allow the computer to enter sleep mode by not touching it for an hour, when I go to wake it up, it does nothing. Pushing the power button also does nothing. The numlock button on my keyboard remains lit, but otherwise, its as if it were not connected to a power source.
So I unplug the cable from my PSU, flip the power toggle on the PSU, and let them sit for about 15 seconds, plug it back in and reflip the switch, and boom! It boots back up.
The weird part though, is that it then tells me it is 'resuming Windows' and once it loads, my user account is still logged in and whatever application I was using when I left it is still up, just like it had woken from sleep normally. However, the computer is unbearably slow at this point, and requires a reboot before it is useful again.
I haven't been able to find anything similar to this in my brief Google searches, but hopefully someone here can help an admitted homebuild noob out? Thanks in advance!
About 50% of the times that I allow the computer to enter sleep mode by not touching it for an hour, when I go to wake it up, it does nothing. Pushing the power button also does nothing. The numlock button on my keyboard remains lit, but otherwise, its as if it were not connected to a power source.
So I unplug the cable from my PSU, flip the power toggle on the PSU, and let them sit for about 15 seconds, plug it back in and reflip the switch, and boom! It boots back up.
The weird part though, is that it then tells me it is 'resuming Windows' and once it loads, my user account is still logged in and whatever application I was using when I left it is still up, just like it had woken from sleep normally. However, the computer is unbearably slow at this point, and requires a reboot before it is useful again.
I haven't been able to find anything similar to this in my brief Google searches, but hopefully someone here can help an admitted homebuild noob out? Thanks in advance!
. The only thing that solved the problem was to use the Windows keyboard command to restart the computer (my unit did not have a reset button). Tap the 'Windows Key' and then the right arrow twice and hit enter. This will restart the PC. If you only hit the right arrow once and then enter it will shut down. Note that these are sequential key taps.
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