- Jan 5, 2014
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Built my first rig about 6 months ago. Started experiencing an issue straight away, and I figured it was about time I got to the bottom of it.
Here's my rig:
Case: Corsair Carbide 500
MotherBoard: ASRock Z77 Extreme 4
CPU: Intel i7 3770K
RAM: Corsair Dominator DDR3 8GB x4 (32GB total)
PSU: Corsair HX650
GPU: EVGA Geforce 660ti
Hard Drive: Seagate 3TB
OS: Windows 7 Professional
When my computer goes to sleep, maybe half the time when it wakes up, the monitor doesn't get a signal. It just keeps searching between the analog and HDMI channels before going back to sleep.
The only way to fix it is to restart the computer. In avoiding having to hard reset, I memorised how to restart using the keyboard, and it was at that point I realised that my keyboard was also not waking up. The light indicating that it's getting power is on, but pressing caps lock does not activate the second light like it usually would.
So here's the short of it: About half the time, waking the computer(all the lights and fans and everything comes on) does not wake my moniter, or my mouse or my keyboard or my drawing tablet. No connected devices wake up.
I wondered if it was a problem with my OS's USB settings, but it effects my monitor too which uses an HDMI connection.
I wondered if it was my GPU's monitor drivers, but I've kept them up to date, and that wouldn't explain why my USB connected devices are going dead as well.
So what the hell is it? Is it my motherboard? Is it a software issue? Is it a hardware issue?
Is it my PSU? Does it not have enough juice to power up everything at once?
It's really weird. My computer's never been knocked around or physically damaged, and apart from this one issue, it works a treat.
One last thing of note, my computer does seem to be particularly sensitive to static. I made a fast habit of touching a big steel cabinet near my desk when ever I sat down, to get rid of any charge I might have built up, so it hasn't happened in a long time, but I used to be able to wake my computer up just by touching it sometimes (not that I made a habit of that). And every now and then then mere act of sitting down at my desk causes the monitor to lose the signal for a second before recovering (dunno how to explain that). And most note worthy of all: once or twice, my previously mentioned connected devices lost their connections when I plugged something into one of the USB ports. Not when I inserted it, but the very instant the plug touched the port. No popping or anything, as if some minute charge from the device was enough to trigger whatever the problem is.
What the hell is going on? Any ideas anyone?
Here's my rig:
Case: Corsair Carbide 500
MotherBoard: ASRock Z77 Extreme 4
CPU: Intel i7 3770K
RAM: Corsair Dominator DDR3 8GB x4 (32GB total)
PSU: Corsair HX650
GPU: EVGA Geforce 660ti
Hard Drive: Seagate 3TB
OS: Windows 7 Professional
When my computer goes to sleep, maybe half the time when it wakes up, the monitor doesn't get a signal. It just keeps searching between the analog and HDMI channels before going back to sleep.
The only way to fix it is to restart the computer. In avoiding having to hard reset, I memorised how to restart using the keyboard, and it was at that point I realised that my keyboard was also not waking up. The light indicating that it's getting power is on, but pressing caps lock does not activate the second light like it usually would.
So here's the short of it: About half the time, waking the computer(all the lights and fans and everything comes on) does not wake my moniter, or my mouse or my keyboard or my drawing tablet. No connected devices wake up.
I wondered if it was a problem with my OS's USB settings, but it effects my monitor too which uses an HDMI connection.
I wondered if it was my GPU's monitor drivers, but I've kept them up to date, and that wouldn't explain why my USB connected devices are going dead as well.
So what the hell is it? Is it my motherboard? Is it a software issue? Is it a hardware issue?
Is it my PSU? Does it not have enough juice to power up everything at once?
It's really weird. My computer's never been knocked around or physically damaged, and apart from this one issue, it works a treat.
One last thing of note, my computer does seem to be particularly sensitive to static. I made a fast habit of touching a big steel cabinet near my desk when ever I sat down, to get rid of any charge I might have built up, so it hasn't happened in a long time, but I used to be able to wake my computer up just by touching it sometimes (not that I made a habit of that). And every now and then then mere act of sitting down at my desk causes the monitor to lose the signal for a second before recovering (dunno how to explain that). And most note worthy of all: once or twice, my previously mentioned connected devices lost their connections when I plugged something into one of the USB ports. Not when I inserted it, but the very instant the plug touched the port. No popping or anything, as if some minute charge from the device was enough to trigger whatever the problem is.
What the hell is going on? Any ideas anyone?
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