LoRd_MuldeR
14th November 2007, 21:43
I got the following strange problem with my "new" machine concerning Standby Mode:
The CPU is an Intel Core2 Q6600, the board is a Gigabyte P35-DS3R (Intel P35 chipset), VGA is an ATI Radeon X1950 XT (R580) and my current OS is WindowsXP x64-Edition. I think that's not an uncommon configuration these days. Now my problem: As soon as I enable Standby Mode in Windows, I see the splash screen for a few milliseconds and then the computer abruptly switches off power completely! That wouldn't be that critical if I could switch it on again. But I can't! Next time I turn on power - after my attempt to go Standby - all I get is black a screen! No BIOS screen, no Beep from PC-Speaker, nothing! I can only hear all the fans speed up to maximum, so fan control obviously isn't working either. And of course power LED is on, but that's it. All I can do in this situation is holding the power-button until the machine switches off again. This happens every time I switch on power! No way to see a booting screen. Fortunately I found out that unplugging the power cable, waiting a few moments and plugging it in again finally does reanimate my machine. But it's getting even more strange at this point: After that "reanimation" procedure I switch on power and the following happens: The PC turns off power automatically after about 5 seconds and then switches on again automatically after another 5 seconds! This repeats for 3 times! First time I was really shocked, thinking the machine is completely broken now. But after the third of those "magic" on/off events the PC suddenly boots up just fine. I can continue working as nothing had happened. Sigh! Only thing I noticed is that all my BIOS settings were reset. Especially the RAM timings were reverted to factory defaults. So I have to go to BIOS menu and set up everything again. What a pain...
Don't get the wrong idea: My machine runs 100% stable, unless Standby mode comes into turn! I can encode videos (at 100% load on all 4 cores) for many hours, I can run Prime95 Torture-Test for hours, I have even tested the latest 3D Games (Bioshock and Crysis Demos) and all works fine. In fact this machine runs ~16 hours a day since I got it (with Folding@Home running in the background all the time) and I'm yet to see a blue screen or system hang. Also I never had any problems booting up or shutting down before. It's only damn Standby mode that makes me worry!
So my question: Is there anybody who has a similar system configuration and/or is there anybody who has encountered similar problems? Does anybody have an idea what could cause these strange things? I can live without Standby mode just fine, but sometimes I happen to enable it by mistake and then all the pain starts again. So I'd be happy for any advice or information. Thanks in advance :)
The CPU is an Intel Core2 Q6600, the board is a Gigabyte P35-DS3R (Intel P35 chipset), VGA is an ATI Radeon X1950 XT (R580) and my current OS is WindowsXP x64-Edition. I think that's not an uncommon configuration these days. Now my problem: As soon as I enable Standby Mode in Windows, I see the splash screen for a few milliseconds and then the computer abruptly switches off power completely! That wouldn't be that critical if I could switch it on again. But I can't! Next time I turn on power - after my attempt to go Standby - all I get is black a screen! No BIOS screen, no Beep from PC-Speaker, nothing! I can only hear all the fans speed up to maximum, so fan control obviously isn't working either. And of course power LED is on, but that's it. All I can do in this situation is holding the power-button until the machine switches off again. This happens every time I switch on power! No way to see a booting screen. Fortunately I found out that unplugging the power cable, waiting a few moments and plugging it in again finally does reanimate my machine. But it's getting even more strange at this point: After that "reanimation" procedure I switch on power and the following happens: The PC turns off power automatically after about 5 seconds and then switches on again automatically after another 5 seconds! This repeats for 3 times! First time I was really shocked, thinking the machine is completely broken now. But after the third of those "magic" on/off events the PC suddenly boots up just fine. I can continue working as nothing had happened. Sigh! Only thing I noticed is that all my BIOS settings were reset. Especially the RAM timings were reverted to factory defaults. So I have to go to BIOS menu and set up everything again. What a pain...
Don't get the wrong idea: My machine runs 100% stable, unless Standby mode comes into turn! I can encode videos (at 100% load on all 4 cores) for many hours, I can run Prime95 Torture-Test for hours, I have even tested the latest 3D Games (Bioshock and Crysis Demos) and all works fine. In fact this machine runs ~16 hours a day since I got it (with Folding@Home running in the background all the time) and I'm yet to see a blue screen or system hang. Also I never had any problems booting up or shutting down before. It's only damn Standby mode that makes me worry!
So my question: Is there anybody who has a similar system configuration and/or is there anybody who has encountered similar problems? Does anybody have an idea what could cause these strange things? I can live without Standby mode just fine, but sometimes I happen to enable it by mistake and then all the pain starts again. So I'd be happy for any advice or information. Thanks in advance :)