Hi
I have the gigabyte bundle with I7 and board mentioned in title etc. And it's been superb but I'm being plagued with cold boot/sleep problems at the moment since I moved to windows 7.
On Vista I had some trouble but it was fixed with a BIOS update early on and it went to sleep fine and resumed fine and also booted fine after a cold start.
Since I went to Windows "7" I have nearly fixed it but am suffering still. The first problem was the display. If it went to sleep, when it resumed, the display took ages to come back on and also error message about driver stopping responding. This seemed to be teething issues with the earlier drivers for the ATI 5870 series cards. A new release just cured that.
Now the main gripe is this. It will go to sleep and if not left too long resume pretty much ok. However if left "sleeping" for more that 24 hours say, it keeps trying boot up and then goes off and then starts up again, it will do that three times and then stay on with no graphics or any input from keyboard or mouse. Hard reset only way to bring it back.
I have tried A LOT of things, many tips from the forum, but am stuck now with not much more to try. Bit baffled as to why it was ok with vista and now with 7 it's broke again when really all this kind of thing seems to be power and MB based.
I use the "OC" profiles originally supplied "4GHZ" saved to usb thumb stick. I have tried newer bios's also and still not quite there.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated. I know its bit a silly thing to be huffing about but the way the PC is set to be used in the house, it's actually quite important for me etc. (need to be able to wake it up to access stuff from work for a start, not to mention media server etc).
Thanks again
current BIOS is latest from Gigabyte F9E I think. Loaded with "OC" profile for the 4 ghz overclock. Many people say it's got something to do with RAM timings, maybe I need to tweak those.
I have the gigabyte bundle with I7 and board mentioned in title etc. And it's been superb but I'm being plagued with cold boot/sleep problems at the moment since I moved to windows 7.
On Vista I had some trouble but it was fixed with a BIOS update early on and it went to sleep fine and resumed fine and also booted fine after a cold start.
Since I went to Windows "7" I have nearly fixed it but am suffering still. The first problem was the display. If it went to sleep, when it resumed, the display took ages to come back on and also error message about driver stopping responding. This seemed to be teething issues with the earlier drivers for the ATI 5870 series cards. A new release just cured that.
Now the main gripe is this. It will go to sleep and if not left too long resume pretty much ok. However if left "sleeping" for more that 24 hours say, it keeps trying boot up and then goes off and then starts up again, it will do that three times and then stay on with no graphics or any input from keyboard or mouse. Hard reset only way to bring it back.
I have tried A LOT of things, many tips from the forum, but am stuck now with not much more to try. Bit baffled as to why it was ok with vista and now with 7 it's broke again when really all this kind of thing seems to be power and MB based.
I use the "OC" profiles originally supplied "4GHZ" saved to usb thumb stick. I have tried newer bios's also and still not quite there.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated. I know its bit a silly thing to be huffing about but the way the PC is set to be used in the house, it's actually quite important for me etc. (need to be able to wake it up to access stuff from work for a start, not to mention media server etc).
Thanks again
current BIOS is latest from Gigabyte F9E I think. Loaded with "OC" profile for the 4 ghz overclock. Many people say it's got something to do with RAM timings, maybe I need to tweak those.
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