Pc will boot to bios screen, but won't wake up from sleep/hibernation

Brydog23

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hello, I'm having a huge issue with my computer as of tonight. I was messing around with a new mechanical keyboard I recently purchased, and decided, for some reason, to press the sleep button (FN + Sleep key on a razer blackwidow ultimate 2014) on the keyboard. This made the screen go dark and I assumed that the computer went to sleep. But when I tried to wake the computer up nothing worked. Not the keyboard, not the mouse, nothing. So I tried pressing the power button on my computer and it shut off immediately. And when I turned it back on, it gave me the BIOS screen (I'm rockin an msi g45 gaming motherboard with an Intel i5 4670k) and after the BIOS screen disappeared the screen would just go black, but the fans and the lights in my computer tower would still be on and running. I have read multiple forums on how to wake computer from sleep since for some reason my keyboard and mouse and pressing the power button aren't waking my computer up from its sleep / hibernation state. For example I've held the power button for a few seconds, I've unplugged the power cord straight from the back of the computer,gone into the BIOS settings and set a ps2 keyboard to wake the computer after plugging the ps2 keyboard in,removing the CMOS battery, and so many other things but to no avail. I'm really scared because I don't want to lose any of my data by having to do a complete reinstall of my operating system, which is Windows 7 Home Edition 64 bit.but I don't know what else I can do.any help would be appreciated greatly.

Bryan*
 
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You could try finding a local PC repair shop around where you live, call them up, tell them your situation and ask if they can either give you one of the two disks I recommended, or if you can bring your system over to him and he can just repair the boot manager himself.

Brydog23

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*UPDATE*

After almost 24 hours of racking my brain, trying to find a solution to my problem which seemed to be unfixable no matter what I tried (removing/moving RAM dimms, reseating the graphics card, altering wake up settings in the bios, flashing new bios firmware, resetting the CMOS, etc). Even booting from the Windows 7 installation disk the first time around resulted in an error when I tried to repair my installation. However, somehow, trying that latter method a second time allowed me to repair my boot up process and restart my PC, and after that, my pc booted back up. It was a little slower at first (kind of understandable considering the crap I put it through) but after fixing the sleep settings (deactivating them all) clearing out my cache and registry errors and rebooting it once more and it was back to it's former glory!

Figured I'd post this solution just in case someone else's PC is put into sleep mode and they can't boot past the bios screen. Try booting from the (insert your OS here)'s installation disk and repairing your boot process. It worked for me after literally 18 hours of non-stop forum reading and troubleshooting...

It wasn't fun...

Anyway, hope this helps someone out in the future!

~Bryan :)
 

Brydog23

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To PigeonHudson...

Well, which operating system do you run? You could call Microsoft, alert them to your issue and ask for a system installation disk or even a repair disk for your OS. Getting one of those 2 disks should fix your issue
 

Brydog23

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You could try finding a local PC repair shop around where you live, call them up, tell them your situation and ask if they can either give you one of the two disks I recommended, or if you can bring your system over to him and he can just repair the boot manager himself.
 
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