Random power off after sleep

[modupre]

Hi all, first post. Well, my computer randomly powers off. This starts happening after my computer puts itself to sleep. This is the third time I've experienced this behavior on a fresh install (using 3 different hard drives so its not the disk). I usually disable sleep but I forgot (yet again). It seems from past experience, that from the first time my pc goes into sleep, the windows install is RUINED. If i can disable sleep right after installing windows (so sleep never runs), windows is fine and has no issues.

Ruined because it's going to power off at random. I dual boot with this PC, so I KNOW it's not a hardware issue. I have installed windows many many times and have only encountered this issue when the system goes into sleep. The second time I encountered this, I had accidentally put it into sleep when selecting reboot. It went to sleep and wouldnt wake up. When I rebooted, it was experiencing this exact issue. This time, it put itself into sleep, i woke it up and it went dead. I have rebooted 3 times and it comes back up fine each time but just randomly crashes. I thought it might be Silverlight but i just had it crash on me without Netflix open. Has anyone experienced this and is there a fix before I reinstall yet again?

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Hello and welcome modupre mate are you installing to a dedicated drive? Is this drive loaded with another OS?? Id so what is that other OS?

 

[modupre]

Yes, Windows was installed on a (refurbished) dedicated drive.

Thing is, when I first rebuilt this PC about 3 months ago, I had purchased a 2TB hard drive and installed Windows on it. Everything was fine until I accidentally put it into sleep, then the power off started happening. I ended up formatting and reinstalling Linux

Now I've just picked up this refurbished drive cause I want to dual boot and installed Windows on it. Things were good until it went into sleep, now it just randomly powers off.

One thing I forgot to mention is that when it powers off, it wont power back on, its like dead. I have to pull the power cable out of the power supply and wait like 5 seconds and plug it back in to get it to power back on.

I've since booted back into Linux and have 0 issues. Any thoughts?

 

[ICIT2LOL]

First up Modupre mate I wouldn't use any refurbished drives - I realise that the expense is probably why folks use such devices and the other thing is I don't like large drives either - a lot of data and lose the drive you lose that too.

But anyway I am not really familiar with Linux so I cannot advise you one way or the other with it's set up. What I might suggest though is that you save any data first and see if this is of any use to you.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/257048-dual-boot-windows-7-linux.html
It might mean that you have to reinstall both but at least it will all be clean and you can slot the data back in once done.

 

[modupre]

Well this issue has happened with a brand new drive and now with the newly purchased refurbished drive (i agree with you on using refurbished drives but it was only $15 and I'm not keeping anything of value on the drive [i only need a windows install for menial tasks such as activating my ipad in itunes and upgrading firmware of my quneo, etc])

The windows install is always on a dedicated drive (i hate mucking around with partitions) so lets pretend I didnt ever mention linux (as it should not be affecting windows in any way)

I guess I'm just going to have to re-install windows and make sure I disable sleep. Once I'm up and running for a bit I'll respond if this issue persists but I have my doubts.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Ok keep us posted.

 

[modupre]

I've finally gotten around to reinstalling Windows. I disabled sleep first thing and have yet to experience any issues. I'm wondering if there's a way to completely disable sleep. For instance, I want to get rid of the option in the start menu completely, or disable its function. Anyone know if this is possible? I already changed my power settings for sleep to never, but i would hate to accidentally click sleep (or have a friend do it)

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Well I don't think there is an option modupre there are some entries in the registry but unless you are knowing exactly what you are doing it is not worth the risk . I have my power settings set to high performance and Never sleep and I never have that much need to go near it. To stop others touching it I guess create a passworded account for your self alone as admin.
Plus means being a little more vigilant.