Random Sleep mode

[Harudath]

Hai guys,

Right basically my PC is going into standby randomly and I can't for the life of me figure out why :S There's no cause I can think of for it, it's been happening since before I got my new PSU so I don't think it's a power problem, the CPU temps look stable and everything else is running just fine.. I have no idea what's going on >.< It took me 5 attempts to write this, although it seems to have stopped for now :S

[garfield619]

have you tried the right click desktop>properties>screen saver tab>lower right "power". there is the standby option there, choose never.

*gets shotgun and shoots monitor aiming at harudath's warcraft avatar*

[Harudath]

That's for your screen going into standby, not the whole PC

[garfield619]

oh, so the power light is still lighting but the screen is black? i think i have encountered it before.

[CB]

That's for your screen going into standby, not the whole PC


No, Gar is right: In XP you can get to all of the standby settings from the screensaver dialog.

It doesn't sound like that's your issue if it's truely happening randomly, however.

Is it a desktop which is doing this? is it the PC in your sig?

[Harudath]

Yeah. It's the PC in my sig.

[Harudath]

System Standby was already set to never anyway...

[garfield619]

hmmm you said that you upgraded your PSU right? maybe pushing the cable from the PSU to mobo? maybe it is just the cables XD.

[Harudath]

This has been happening since before I upgraded my PSU. Some days it does it, some says it doesn't. It'll go a week without doing it then I'll suddenly get standby sprees.

[CB]

This may be a silly question: Do you have a key on your keyboard mapped to standby (it may look like a round button with a moon on it)?

It may be as silly as accidentally hitting that key with something resting against the side of the keyboard, or something hanging down above the keyboard tray.

[Harudath]

I have one, I'm not touching it by accident but I'm wondering if I got a really sensitive one, I type quickly but I press the keyboard quite hard when I do. Although I've whacked it before and nothing's happened. Since I was suspicious of this earlier I set it to ask me what to do when it gets pressed.

[garfield619]

how mapped? like "assigned task to button" thingie?

[Harudath]

Aye