- Mar 14, 2013
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Okay, here's the deal: I've been searching all over the internet and this seems to be a common problem but here goes anyway...
My system was running wonderful! (specs are below) All was well with all my new stuff; I was modding my Skyrim game having a grand ole time, when all of a sudden, one day, it just wouldn't wake from sleep mode. Well, it would wake, I could hear the fan start spinning, but there would be nothing on the display. Also, if I happen to turn my system on before turning on my display (which is my 42" JVC TV) it will have no picture at all. I've done nothing new, at least that I can recall. My video card is NOT on auto update, I check it myself and update when I feel the driver is stable enough. (In my personal opinion, I think NVidia puts out new drivers too often. I don't think it's necessary just for the optimization of a few new games, or for TWITCH or some such nonsense when it doesn't apply to me).
I am getting concerned about having to do all of these hard shutdowns so often. So now, I have to shutdown each time I'm going to be away for awhile. BIG pain!
I have tried all the different configurations in POWER SAVING menu, including custom: Sleep: never, Turn off Display: never, Hibernate: never, etc. (I even made sure to tell my television not to turn itself off). I checked the bios, it's all good there. I went into Device Manager, checked that all USB Root Hubs were unchecked as far as "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" so the ports would stay on, so that my mouse and keyboard could be used to wake it. Checked the mouse and keyboard; "Allow this device to wake computer" all checked. So as you can see, I have run the gamut on this issue; all to no avail.
Does anybody have any idea why this would just stop working all of a sudden? I REALLY hate Windows Auto-update. Mine is set to "notify me and I'll decide what to download and install" . But believe it or not, these (beeps) at Micro$oft somehow manage to slip an update in there on me now and then and I can't figure out how. At any rate, I'm finding lots of sneaky little crap with this OS. Things that were taken away that were available before, along with other things that were slipped in that I don't need or want. Now I find that this is VERY common problem, and something that been going on a long time with past iterations as well. I'm starting to wonder if an update somehow did this.
Now that I'm done Micro$oft bashing, does anybody have any ideas? Or maybe some info regarding something I could have overlooked? I'm no computer wiz, believe me, but I can GOOGLE and I can read and I. Am. Learning.
Thanks in advance,
Nyphrodel
My System:
XPS 8500
i7-3770@3.4GHz
8GB DDR3 SDRAM
1TB HD
600w Corsair PSU
AMD Radeon HD 7570 1GB GDDR5 replaced w/GeForce GTX660 2GB GDDR5
19:1 Media Card Reader
Integrated 7.1 w/WAVE MAXXAudio 4 replaced w/ Sound Blaster ZX sound card
JBL SB200 Sound Bar
Windows 7 Home Premium
displayed on a 42" JVC HD TV
My system was running wonderful! (specs are below) All was well with all my new stuff; I was modding my Skyrim game having a grand ole time, when all of a sudden, one day, it just wouldn't wake from sleep mode. Well, it would wake, I could hear the fan start spinning, but there would be nothing on the display. Also, if I happen to turn my system on before turning on my display (which is my 42" JVC TV) it will have no picture at all. I've done nothing new, at least that I can recall. My video card is NOT on auto update, I check it myself and update when I feel the driver is stable enough. (In my personal opinion, I think NVidia puts out new drivers too often. I don't think it's necessary just for the optimization of a few new games, or for TWITCH or some such nonsense when it doesn't apply to me).
I am getting concerned about having to do all of these hard shutdowns so often. So now, I have to shutdown each time I'm going to be away for awhile. BIG pain!
I have tried all the different configurations in POWER SAVING menu, including custom: Sleep: never, Turn off Display: never, Hibernate: never, etc. (I even made sure to tell my television not to turn itself off). I checked the bios, it's all good there. I went into Device Manager, checked that all USB Root Hubs were unchecked as far as "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" so the ports would stay on, so that my mouse and keyboard could be used to wake it. Checked the mouse and keyboard; "Allow this device to wake computer" all checked. So as you can see, I have run the gamut on this issue; all to no avail.
Does anybody have any idea why this would just stop working all of a sudden? I REALLY hate Windows Auto-update. Mine is set to "notify me and I'll decide what to download and install" . But believe it or not, these (beeps) at Micro$oft somehow manage to slip an update in there on me now and then and I can't figure out how. At any rate, I'm finding lots of sneaky little crap with this OS. Things that were taken away that were available before, along with other things that were slipped in that I don't need or want. Now I find that this is VERY common problem, and something that been going on a long time with past iterations as well. I'm starting to wonder if an update somehow did this.
Now that I'm done Micro$oft bashing, does anybody have any ideas? Or maybe some info regarding something I could have overlooked? I'm no computer wiz, believe me, but I can GOOGLE and I can read and I. Am. Learning.
Thanks in advance,
Nyphrodel
My System:
XPS 8500
i7-3770@3.4GHz
8GB DDR3 SDRAM
1TB HD
600w Corsair PSU
AMD Radeon HD 7570 1GB GDDR5 replaced w/GeForce GTX660 2GB GDDR5
19:1 Media Card Reader
Integrated 7.1 w/WAVE MAXXAudio 4 replaced w/ Sound Blaster ZX sound card
JBL SB200 Sound Bar
Windows 7 Home Premium
displayed on a 42" JVC HD TV
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