I want to share how I solved these problems to give back to the many posters I read here who helped me.
First, the sleep problem. The second day after I installed Windows 7, the computer went to hybrid sleep (s3) overnight. When I moved the mouse the case light came on, the fans roared to life and ----- nothing! Black screen. A plain old hibernation worked fine, but a plain old s3 sleep did not (s1 did work). After reading and trying many good ideas presented here, but with no change in results, I gave it my last idea. I unplugged the P/S from the mains, I opened the case, and I firmly pressed on the graphics card and the graphics card power connectors to make sure it was all properly seated. You guessed it. I've had not one problem with sleep since. I'm using my board's default settings (auto) with ACPI and ACPI 2.0 (enabled), for anyone who is wondering. I'm guessing that at some point in the first day I slightly dislodged the graphics card. It is strange that the computer booted and otherwise behaved normally, but it did.
On to the boot hang . There was a 120 second boot delay on some reboots. The delay only occurred after the computer was powered up and in Windows 7 for more than approx 30 minutes. It hung right at "Windows Starting" and precisely 120 seconds later the first firefly would appear and continue with a normal Windows 7 boot. First I determined from the boot log that the boot only really started when the firefly appeared and that everything from running a start repair to sfc revealed no problems. So it seemed to be the hand off between the BIOS and the OS where the problem was occurring. I then tried clearing the CMOS. That and various BIOS settings and tweaks didn't work until I finally disabled Legacy USB. There is a minor inconvenience in doing that if I need to get into safe mode with my USB keyboard, but it is easy to go into setup and enable it if need be. In the mean time, I have reasonably quick reboots (59 seconds according to Restart -Time). I certainly no longer have a hang in the Windows boot -- everything keeps moving along.
This same computer booted Windows XP SP3 fine with Legacy USB enabled. But hey there could be any number of reasons for that up to and including that I was using IDE in XP and am using AHCI in Win 7.
I hope that by writing this, it will help someone else, or give someone else an idea as to how to solve these problems. One piece of advice, don't give up until you've tried everything you can think of. If you can still think of something to try, short of blowing up the computer, do it. It took me several days to solve the sleep problem and over a week to solve the boot problem -- especially fun because I had to wait at least 30 minutes between reboots to test it.
First, the sleep problem. The second day after I installed Windows 7, the computer went to hybrid sleep (s3) overnight. When I moved the mouse the case light came on, the fans roared to life and ----- nothing! Black screen. A plain old hibernation worked fine, but a plain old s3 sleep did not (s1 did work). After reading and trying many good ideas presented here, but with no change in results, I gave it my last idea. I unplugged the P/S from the mains, I opened the case, and I firmly pressed on the graphics card and the graphics card power connectors to make sure it was all properly seated. You guessed it. I've had not one problem with sleep since. I'm using my board's default settings (auto) with ACPI and ACPI 2.0 (enabled), for anyone who is wondering. I'm guessing that at some point in the first day I slightly dislodged the graphics card. It is strange that the computer booted and otherwise behaved normally, but it did.
On to the boot hang . There was a 120 second boot delay on some reboots. The delay only occurred after the computer was powered up and in Windows 7 for more than approx 30 minutes. It hung right at "Windows Starting" and precisely 120 seconds later the first firefly would appear and continue with a normal Windows 7 boot. First I determined from the boot log that the boot only really started when the firefly appeared and that everything from running a start repair to sfc revealed no problems. So it seemed to be the hand off between the BIOS and the OS where the problem was occurring. I then tried clearing the CMOS. That and various BIOS settings and tweaks didn't work until I finally disabled Legacy USB. There is a minor inconvenience in doing that if I need to get into safe mode with my USB keyboard, but it is easy to go into setup and enable it if need be. In the mean time, I have reasonably quick reboots (59 seconds according to Restart -Time). I certainly no longer have a hang in the Windows boot -- everything keeps moving along.
This same computer booted Windows XP SP3 fine with Legacy USB enabled. But hey there could be any number of reasons for that up to and including that I was using IDE in XP and am using AHCI in Win 7.
I hope that by writing this, it will help someone else, or give someone else an idea as to how to solve these problems. One piece of advice, don't give up until you've tried everything you can think of. If you can still think of something to try, short of blowing up the computer, do it. It took me several days to solve the sleep problem and over a week to solve the boot problem -- especially fun because I had to wait at least 30 minutes between reboots to test it.
My Computer
At a glance
Windows 7 Professional x64Intel Core i5-2500 Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GH...G.SKILL Ripjaws 4GB Model F3-12800CL8D-4GBRM ...EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Home Built
- OS
- Windows 7 Professional x64
- CPU
- Intel Core i5-2500 Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost)
- Motherboard
- ASUS P8P67 (REV 3.0)
- Memory
- G.SKILL Ripjaws 4GB Model F3-12800CL8D-4GBRM (8GB total)
- Graphics Card(s)
- EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX
- Sound Card
- Realtek ALC892 (integrated sound)
- Monitor(s) Displays
- ASUS VH242HL-P Black 23.6" 5ms HDMI
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- WDC WD1001FALS Western Digital 1 Terabyte Black Caviar SATA II,
WDC WD15EADS-00P8B0 (WD-WMAVU0021908) Western Digital Elements 1.5 Terabyte USB external
- PSU
- Corsair HX520W
- Case
- LIAN LI PC-65B Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Case
- Cooling
- COOLER MASTER Vortex Plus RR-VTPS-28PK-R1 92mm
- Keyboard
- Logitech Wireless Desktop MK710
- Mouse
- Logitech Marathon Mouse M705
- Internet Speed
- 1.6 Mbps down 200 kbps up (satellite, live in boonies)
- Other Info
- SH-S203N Samsung DVD+-RW with Lightscribe - SATA Optical Drive, Canon Pixma MX882 Wireless Office All-in-One Inkjet Printer, Altec Lansing VS2621 2.1 Channel Speaker System
