I'm not completely PC literate perhaps, but not a complete rookie either. I built this machine and after solving some bad memory issues, it's worked great. Now it wont shut down. The screen goes into sleep mode but the machine will not. When i wake it up i do have to enter my password but while it's in screen saver the video card fan is definitely still running (I use a blank screen when in screen saver mode).
i cant see any power options in windows, I assume my ACPI mother board (Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L) has overridden them.
At POST i see the ACPI controller at the bottom of the list but there's no relative information on that line other than an IRQ, all other columns are blank. it's almost as if the ACPI is simply not loading.
The only thing i can think of that may have been loaded between working and not working is the installation of Connectivity VPN Client (need it to log onto work PC).
Gigabyte was absolutely useless.
i cant see any power options in windows, I assume my ACPI mother board (Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L) has overridden them.
At POST i see the ACPI controller at the bottom of the list but there's no relative information on that line other than an IRQ, all other columns are blank. it's almost as if the ACPI is simply not loading.
The only thing i can think of that may have been loaded between working and not working is the installation of Connectivity VPN Client (need it to log onto work PC).
Gigabyte was absolutely useless.