Solved Warning: Dumb question ahead.

[Britton30]

What is the correct way to resume from Sleep?
I'm working on a Compaq SR1750NX desktop,
Win7 Ult 32 bit
Athlon X2 4600
2 GB DDR400 RAM
Moving the mouse and tapping keys won't wake it. Holding the power button in cause it to shut down and immediately restart and there's no monitor display. I don't want to pull the power and risk losing data.

 

[metalmania31]

What are the power settings?

 

[Britton30]

Everything was set to Never I put it to sleep fron the Start menu. It just won't resume from sleep.

 

[Sub Styler]

If the hard disk is Idle you are not likely to loose data by pulling the power.

I do it often enough sorry seagate....

Perhaps once it's off removing the battery for a few mins will resolve your issue? Then possibly check device manager setting for keyboard and mouse to check they have permission to wake from sleep.

 

[Britton30]

If the hard disk is Idle you are not likely to loose data by pulling the power.

I do it often enough sorry seagate....

Perhaps once it's off removing the battery for a few mins will resolve your issue? Then possibly check device manager setting for keyboard and mouse to check they have permission to wake from sleep.

Well the HDD light was on, but I yanked the power cable out and it booted up fine. I put it back to sleep and the mouse woke it this time. It seems if it is in sleep for a longer time it won't wake up.
Thanks.

 

[whs]

See my picture. Same goes for "Mices".

 

[Britton30]

Thanks Wolfgang, I have both the keyboard and mouse set that way.
(Nice snip BTW)

 

[Shadowjk]

Check if you have any Dumps as you might have had a sleep BSOD (Unlikely but a possibility)

Josh

 

[johnhoh]

you might reload some of your drivers. Windows sleep resumption issues can be due to an imperfect driver, even when device manager shows them all to be fine.

 

[Britton30]

Check if you have any Dumps as you might have had a sleep BSOD (Unlikely but a possibility)

Josh

Good point but nothing found.

 

[whs]

The question is not so dumb after all. But I am lost.

 

[Sub Styler]

Dying BIOS Battery?

 

[arkhi]

Warning: Dumb question ahead.

The only question that is dumb is one that is never asked.

 

[Britton30]

Dying BIOS Battery?

Nah, replaced both PCs CMOS batts a couple weeks ago.

 

[Barman58]

As you do not have an issue with shorter sleep periods but do with longer ones, check your settings for Hybrid sleep, it could be that the system is hibernating and therefore will not come out of this with the normal mouse or keyboard action

 

[Britton30]

Thanks Nigel, but I've disabled hibernation with the powercfg -h off command.

 

[FerchogtX]

Maybe the monitor has something to do... is the whole PC doing nothing when you move the mouse or is just the monitor which is not responding? Maybe the CPU is waking up, but not the monitor...

See ya!!

 

[Britton30]

All is asleep, the power light on the PC continues to flash indicating sleep state.

 

[Britton30]

Found it, I set the monitor's default input to VGA instead of AUTO. comes on fine now.