PC won't boot after sleep.

[LeNger]

Hey forum
I need help. I left my computer over night on in sleep mode. I woke up in the morning and tryed waking it up by moving the mouse, pressing keys on the keyboard and checked my monitor, but when I hit input, it search for signal and didn't find one an when to sleep again. I think I already tryed everything. I also pressed the power button in hope it will wake up but no. I did an emergency shut down later on. After i rebooted it shut off after 3 seconds and then rebooted itself into sleep mode automaticly.
In sleep mode, I can hear my driver running but the monitor still recievs no signal and the BIOS doesn't come up...
I've tryed everthing:
Unplug and reboot
Unplug every cable except the power cable and reboot
F8 while reboot
Taking out my graphics card and putting it back in and rebooting

Nothing helped.
I'm hoping for an answer.
LeNger

 

[JamesR404]

Some tips.

What is the "emergency shutdown" you did? You did everything except pull the power cable?

On some systems, if you hold down the power button for 3-4 seconds it will go to standby.

Try holding the power button for much longer than that, like 8-20 seconds. And make sure the system is actually off (no lights, except for the network connection & no sounds).

If it still won't work it could just be that your monitor got burned out or isn't connected properly anymore - try connecting another screen, or reconnecting the current screen.

If that still fails, it might be another hardware component that gave the fritz, in which case you might hear a serries of beeps if the PC starts up. Let us know.

 

[kucing13]

have you turned off your PSU? atleast let it for 4/5 minutes? and then turn it on again?

 

[LeNger]

What is the "emergency shutdown" you did? You did everything except pull the power cable?

On some systems, if you hold down the power button for 3-4 seconds it will go to standby.

Try holding the power button for much longer than that, like 8-20 seconds. And make sure the system is actually off (no lights, except for the network connection & no sounds).

If it still won't work it could just be that your monitor got burned out or isn't connected properly anymore - try connecting another screen, or reconnecting the current screen.

If that still fails, it might be another hardware component that gave the fritz, in which case you might hear a serries of beeps if the PC starts up. Let us know.

I did shutdown, pull the plug. Also pull the powercable on the back of the PC and also I've tryed holding the power button down for around 30 seconds... Nothing
If I pull the PSU and plug it back in and reboot it turns on for 5 seconds (No signal on monitor) and shuts down again, after 3s it boots automaticly itself and goes back into it's sleeping mode.

Usually I'd hear 1 beep out of my computer which would follow by the BIOS on the screen. But now when it boots it doesn't make the beep anymore and the BIOS doesn't come up ( No signal on monitor :sarc, that way I can tell that it's not booting properly and that the error isn't in the monitor. It must be something with the system.

Anything else I should try?
LeNger

 

[kucing13]

problem with your power scheme maybe?might want to check it. If you it set to Balanced or Power saving then it shuts down the hard drives after 30 minutes.You can then push the power button to wake it up.

 

[LeNger]

problem with your power scheme maybe?might want to check it. If you it set to Balanced or Power saving then it shuts down the hard drives after 30 minutes.You can then push the power button to wake it up.

I jujst tryed it and didn't change anything.

Anything else?
LeNger

 

[kucing13]

try setting it to High Performance and disable any sleep function.

i would suggest hibernating than sleep. however if problem persist. May i suggest repair install

 

[LeNger]

try setting it to High Performance and disable any sleep function.

i would suggest hibernating than sleep. however if problem persist. May i suggest repair install

You don't understand, my monitor is constantly black and my computer is in sleep mode and can't get out of it! Even after all kinds of trys to reboot to a normal state!

LeNger

 

[kucing13]

try setting it to High Performance and disable any sleep function.

i would suggest hibernating than sleep. however if problem persist. May i suggest repair install

You don't understand, my monitor is constantly black and my computer is in sleep mode and can't get out of it! Even after all kinds of trys to reboot to a normal state!

LeNger

I'm sorry . If that's the case then repair install might help

 

[Hannibal001]

Does it let you boot to safe mode ?

 

[LeNger]

Does it let you boot to safe mode ?

No it doesn't, since I don't even see the screen...

And I'm wondering how I'm gonna do that repair without a screen too...
LeNger

 

[kucing13]

you need a disk. and it will reboot from it

 

[Hannibal001]

Can you get to a friends house and download a program called "Magic boot disk" ?? Burn to ISO cd and you can boot from it as long as your machine boots from cd-dvd first and see if it is your monitor or system itself.

 

[LeNger]

Guys you don't get it, the screen is black, so I can't select anything, the system is in sleep even after reboots, and putting a CD in the CD-Rom does nothing!

LeNger

 

[Hannibal001]

Thats not sleep if you cant see anything at all on boot. If you cant see bios doing a check before boot then I would say you board is gone the way of all things and bit the dust. Try un-pluging your DVD drive and boot machine. A short or failure in dvd will cause machine mot to boot.

 

[LeNger]

Thats not sleep if you cant see anything at all on boot. If you cant see bios doing a check before boot then I would say you board is gone the way of all things and bit the dust. Try un-pluging your DVD drive and boot machine. A short or failure in dvd will cause machine mot to boot.

Nope, nothing changed if I unplug it.

LeNger

 

[JamesR404]

They don't get it do they? The screen is black. As in BLACK ;P

Look, it sounds like there might be a short-circuit or defective component somewhere. Make sure your PC isn't in touch with any other metallic objects, like heating or just anything underneath it.

When that (probably) doesn't help, then just do the following:
1) Remove ALL hardware components, harddrive, memory, video card, sound card, EVERYTHING. So that you have only the mother board. Note, either remember how everything was by writing it down or taking a picture, or be sure to have the manual of the mother board (you can often download those).

2) Add ONE bar of memory. Connect your Power Supply Unit to the mother board. (leaving the mother board screwed to the casing).

3) Try to turn it on. Just see if the case lighting is any different from when you have the problem - you may not actually notice a difference.... That's OK.

4) Connect the monitor and power it on again. If your monitor or PC has multiple connectors for the screen, try them all.

5) If it still fails, it could be that one memory bar - try using another memory bar.

6) If it still fails, it could be the monitor, try replacing it. - EVEN if it says no signal, the problem can be with the monitor.

7) Try replacing the cable between the monitor and the PC.

Throughout the whole thing, be very meticulous. Keep track of the steps you take and don't try to rush it. Just take your time to do it right. =]

Let us know how it goes! Also if you still need help if this didn't work. The forum is with you!

 

[Hannibal001]

Any luck at all ?? if not post and everyone will try to help you.

 

[LeNger]

Sorry, after all trys no results...
I'll send my computer to a service.

Thank you for your time
Lenger

 

[JamesR404]

If you like, let us know what they found. Cheers!