Desktop will not Suspend anymore

The_Other_One

The_Other_One

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It's weird... I needed to print something real quick before class so I booted my computer and printed what I needed, then figured I'd just Suspend it. Windows does it's thing, monitor goes to stand-by, HD's spin down...but the fans continue spinning and power-light stays on. Nothing will make it wake up except resetting it. I was hoping it was simply an OS problem, but it happens with both copies of Vista I have loaded here. I've not tried Linux yet so maybe a little later...

Otherwise the computer seems to be fine. Assuming it's hardware, anything you guys would check into first. I'm thinking probably PSU or motherboard related.

Just for the Ha-Ha's I checked my voltages in PC Wizard. Aside from 12 volt, everything looks fine. I'm getting 2.16v for 12v, but I'm quite sure it's a fluke with the software as it shows to be around 12.10 in the BIOS.

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Restored the BIOS to the default settings then set up the overclock and drives as I had before. Same problem. Suspend worked before with these overclocked settings so I seriously doubt it's that. Still not test with Linux. One odd thign though; PC Wizard is showing my CPU running at 3.33GHz all the time. CPU-Z does show it under-clocking. Weird...
 
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Mobo is a Gigabyte EX58-UD3R

No recent hardware changes. Shouldn't have any software changes. I have Vista on two separate drives, one's primarily for gaming, the other for everything else. I've not loaded anything on both of them recently.

No windows updates since I loaded the computer (both drives)

Tried that... The suspend mode was set to S3. Changed to S1 and no go. This was before I loaded defaults. I'm unsure what it's set to now; S3 I'd assume.
 
Start/Windows-Button/Whatever-it's-considered-in-Vista > Shut Down > Sleep from the drop down. Up until recently this hasn't been an issue. And I know there has been a time or two I have been away and the machine automatically went to sleep. I've not tried this yet; maybe I'll set the timer to something low and see what happens.
 
Start, type Device Manager.

Expand Keyboards, Right Click, Properties, Power Management.

Uncheck the box that says "Allow this device to wake the computer".

Do the same for your mouse. See if that does it.
 
OK, I shall check that in a bit... But a little new info. I booted to my Ubuntu LiveCD and tried to Suspend. It DID work...sort of. Everything cut off fine and the computer tried to wake up when I tapped the power button. Problem is it never fully came back. However, seeing as it actually did cut off, I'm feeling it is something relating to Windows.

At some point I might try to reload Windows. I have a slipstreamed copy of Vista with all the updates and such.
 
Is your computer on a network?

If your computer is sharing files, there is a setting that will prevent the computer from sleeping.
 
As stated earlier; it is overclocked and was working fine before today.

Something new... I was using my netbook and just letting the desktop sit idle. I heard a "tick" and noticed the computer was rebooting (the tick is from the PC-Speaker and is normal as it reboots). I have returned to my computer before and noticed it was in the primary OS, so I guess this problem has been occurring longer than I realized. Perhaps I'll image the drive then try reloading it tonight. I wouldn't mind having a fresh install of Vista anyway...

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Stupid images take too long to make :P
 
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So it was Windows... I'm still a bit confused why seeing as I had two independent copies, but oh well. Running a fresh copy of Vista SP2. Once all the drivers were loaded, it went right to sleep and then was able to wake right back up.
 
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