Greetings all,
I have a problem that's baffling me. I have a home built Windows 7 desktop about 5-6 years old. Has been working great except for recently, intermittently when going into sleep it will go into a kind of zombie state where the power light is still on and everything else is powered off except for the power supply and other fans in the case. I can't get the system back without pressing the power button again and booting from scratch.
Last night was the most problematic evening of all, this happened multiple times in a row and even hapenned once when selecting shutdown instead of sleep. In one instance the power button began to blink after trying to restart the system.
Finally I was able to get a good shutdown before going to bed.
I replaced the power supply as a test and that didn't help at all.
I also reset the BIOS to optimized defaults and sleep worked ok for a day or two but now seems to be acting up again.
I think RAM may be the next thing to try and test
If anyone has had similar experiences or has any suggestions I would be delighted to hear what you have to say.
Thanks in advance
Paul
I have a problem that's baffling me. I have a home built Windows 7 desktop about 5-6 years old. Has been working great except for recently, intermittently when going into sleep it will go into a kind of zombie state where the power light is still on and everything else is powered off except for the power supply and other fans in the case. I can't get the system back without pressing the power button again and booting from scratch.
Last night was the most problematic evening of all, this happened multiple times in a row and even hapenned once when selecting shutdown instead of sleep. In one instance the power button began to blink after trying to restart the system.
Finally I was able to get a good shutdown before going to bed.
I replaced the power supply as a test and that didn't help at all.
I also reset the BIOS to optimized defaults and sleep worked ok for a day or two but now seems to be acting up again.
I think RAM may be the next thing to try and test
If anyone has had similar experiences or has any suggestions I would be delighted to hear what you have to say.
Thanks in advance
Paul
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