When I put the PC to sleep, it sort of dies...

[Formhault]

Okay, so. It's me again. With my brand new PC... about which I some times feel like returning all the parts and buying a laptop (but then I remember "oh wait, it's expensive")...

 

So. I've slapped Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on it - the same OS I've been using on my old PC for about 2 years without any problems.

 

I put the PC to sleep, it dies. The power LED isn't blinking (as it was on the previous PC / as it does on my mom's laptop and my girlfriend's Sony Vaio laptop)... and I can't turn it back on by pressing the power button. I need to cut power for like 3~5 seconds before being able to turn it back on (then it goes to Resuming Windows).

 

I have a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 motherboard (Rev4.0). Up until yesterday, I thought it's the BIOS : I disabled the HPET option and realised it sleeps good. Now, 12 hours after, IT DOESN'T.

 

Any ideas, anyone?

[RedRound2]

That's not sleep rather hibernate. I presume you click the power button to go to sleep

 

Sleep: Turns most of the system off, except the RAM for preserving whatever you were doing

Hibernate: Dumps everything that's on the RAM to the OS drive and basically shuts down

[DudeWazap]

If it says "Resuming windows" That means that it goes into Hibernation mode. You can have it not do that if you don't want it to.

[Formhault]

That's not sleep rather hibernate. I presume you click the power button to go to sleep

 

Sleep: Turns most of the system off, except the RAM for preserving whatever you were doing

Hibernate: Dumps everything that's on the RAM to the OS drive and basically shuts down

 

I put the PC to sleep via the same way I put my old PC to sleep, and the other two laptops I have access to - Start button -> Shut down arrow to extend the menu -> Sleep.

 

Well, on the laptops, I made it so the power button does the "Sleep" command instead of "Power off'. The same thing I did on my old PC, actually. It's basically like pressing "Sleep" anyway...

 

So it's sleep, not hibernate. :\

[Formhault]

If it says "Resuming windows" That means that it goes into Hibernation mode. You can have it not do that if you don't want it to.

 

Huh? Woah. Okay. How do I make it so that it goes to actual sleep (not hibernation) when I press the "Sleep" button?

 

EDIT : Nevermind. I did it myself (should have Googled first). Cmd -> powercfg -h off. Okay.

 

Now the PC goes to sleep in like 1 second. But one second later, it wakes back up all by itself... :\

[DudeWazap]

Huh? Woah. Okay. How do I make it so that it goes to actual sleep (not hibernation) when I press the "Sleep" button?

 

EDIT : Nevermind. I did it myself (should have Googled first). Cmd -> powercfg -h off. Okay.

 

Now the PC goes to sleep in like 1 second. But one second later, it wakes back up all by itself... :\

Go into your start menu, then click control panel -> hardware and sound -> power options -> change plan settings -> change advanced power settings then scroll down to sleep and a sub menu will come out and then change "hibernate after" and set it to "never". and there you go. 

[RedRound2]

Now the PC goes to sleep in like 1 second. But one second later, it wakes back up all by itself... :\

 

Yeaah, I've always had that problem. Some peripheral wakes it up

[DudeWazap]

 

 

EDIT : Nevermind. I did it myself (should have Googled first). Cmd -> powercfg -h off. Okay.

 

Now the PC goes to sleep in like 1 second. But one second later, it wakes back up all by itself... :\

You can still go through the power options menu like i said and change your sleep timer there too. if you want.

[Formhault]

You can still go through the power options menu like i said and change your sleep timer there too. if you want.

 

I've set that timer to never, because I use Simple Shutdown Timer to put the computer to sleep (or shut down). When I put it to sleep, it's because I'm setting a task to wake it up and run Winamp to wake me up at 9 AM or something, you know...

[Formhault]

Yeaah, I've always had that problem. Some peripheral wakes it up

 

I got "Power on Keyboard" enabled ("any key") just so I can turn the computer on without getting out of my bed (say, I need it fully operational before I get back from the bathroom and can't wait 15 seconds lol).

 

But that's not it.

 

I went in Device Manager and changed the "Advanced" properties for the LAN driver. Disabled "Wake on Magic Packet" and "Wake on pattern match" and it seems to sleep like a baby now (I mean wake up as it should, lol). Hmm...