Odd computer problem - sleeps even before BIOS

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You would need to upgrade the BIOS.

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Mark L. Ferguson (NOT an MS-MVP)
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<GamingTao@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1110881687.585830.71950@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>I am fixing my sister's computer and am pretty stumped this time. The
> computer will enter sleep mode at random moments. I thought it was the
> monitor but double and triple checked that since it seemed like the
> only possible problem.
>
> I want to say it is a hardware failure of some sort, but since I have
> been working with computers I have never seen one act like this. It
> will go into sleep mode at random times. Sometimes hours before it
> enters sleep... however it even went to sleep just before I entered
> BIOS since I thought it possibly could have been a BIOS setting causing
> the problems (BTW when I finally got in there nothing seemed out of the
> ordinary).
>
> So anyone else seen a computer enter sleep mode (the light on the
> actual PC even changes colors to reflect sleep mode) sometimes before
> even BIOS loads and are unable to get out of it? If so mind letting me
> know what the problem was on the computer in question?
>
> BTW this computer is a HP model (getting the computer again today so I
> can update if you really need to know the specs) but everything is
> exactly as it was when she purchased it, the case has never been opened
> only change in hardware is the addition of a printer.
>