Solved Windows 7 Does Not Wake Up, What Do I DO?!

[bildrk]

Hi all, this is my second post today. Just when i get one problem figured out, out pops another one. First, when windows first booted, my screen sometimes didn't come on, but now it does. Now, when i put the computer to sleep, it doesn't wake up. I have to power it off and then power it back on. I really dislike doing this, and am really getting frustrated. If i can't get it fix quickly, i am going back to XP. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. If requested, will list what all i have tried, as i have tried alot of different things. Thanks again.

 

[Quatrix]

What are you doing to wake it up? My motherboard/BIOS lets me choose different ways to wake up the PC, and I chose the space bar. Pressing other keys or the mouse does nothing here.

 

[bildrk]

i have set both the mouse and keyboard to wake it up. neither work, so i tried pressing the power button. it doesn't work either. i'm going to try and reinstall the latest drivers, and see if that works.

 

[bildrk]

didn't work, i'm going back to XP. i freaking hate windows 7.

 

[seavixen32]

OK, bye, but before you go have you checked your BIOS settings?

 

[bildrk]

i changed my BIOS settings from S3 to S1, and that didn't help either. have any more suggestions?

 

[fjawodfc]

Is there anything relevant in Event Viewer? Does your PC case indicate that it's really in sleep/standby with a flashing LED or something?

 

[bildrk]

yep, i know its asleep because my led blinks. no, event viewer doesn't tell me anything.

 

[fjawodfc]

I've had various sleep/hibernate issues with Windows 7 and my motherboard. Mine still freezes occasionally when waking. Let's see if we can figure this out.

Are you dual-booting XP and 7? And the PC still wakes properly after sleeping under XP?

What's the motherboard make and model?

Can you drop to a command prompt (run > cmd.exe), run "powercfg -a", and paste the output?

In the meantime, have you tried enabling hybrid sleep (Control Panel > Power Options > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Sleep > Allow hybrid sleep)? That will hibernate at the same time so that if the system doesn't wake from sleep, it still resumes from where you left off.

 

[maxseven]

I've had various sleep/hibernate issues with Windows 7...
In the meantime, have you tried enabling hybrid sleep (Control Panel > Power Options > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Sleep > Allow hybrid sleep)? That will hibernate at the same time so that if the system doesn't wake from sleep, it still resumes from where you left off.

I'm with fjawodfc, I have a pre-W7 PC that I upgraded to W7HPx64 and I could not get it to work properly with Sleep mode for love or money. Spent many weeks (months?) trying, before I gave-up and run it in Hibernate only, and this works very well indeed--I'm happy with it.

I have learned to love W7 and wouldn't go back to XP myself. Indeed the only issue(s) I've found with W7 are surrounding the Sleep/Standby functionality. Along with bildrk-type problems, some programs don't seem to know how to keep W7 alert, and it will go-to-Sleep (or in my case Hibernate) in the middle of operation e.g. virus scanning or something. I've learned though to look-for and deal with those (using W7's superior Task Scheduling capabilities).

 

[fjawodfc]

My ASUS P8P67 motherboard/BIOS has some known sleep problems that would happen with a new Windows installation too. It's not bad enough that I use hibernate exclusively though. At least 90% of the time it wakes properly and becomes usable in less than 10 seconds. When it freezes once every two or three weeks, hybrid sleep allows me to resume without losing anything. But I digress.

 

[bildrk]

i have windows 7 on my laptop, and i do like it, but i don't see a significant reason why i should have upgraded from XP. the security is the same, i feel like i'm just wasting money on a new taskbar. i just isn't worth it. i have already went back to xp, but we can still help fjawodfc figure out his problem. ia am not dual booting with xp, i don't have the hard disk space. will do some digging to see what my motherboard is, .......

 

[bildrk]

i beleive motherboard is an XPS 200, i know darn well the motherboard is fine, i am running xp currently and everything works flawlessly. still don't understand why windows 7 wouldn't though. out of curiosity, could it be my graphics card is to small? its an ATI Radeon x600 series 128mb imbedded memory. works perfectly on xp, but doesn't on windows 7.

 

[maxseven]

Yours is a quad core CPU? And you put W7 32-bit in it? While I'd expect that to work, I guess now I'm not surprised you might have a Sleep problem.

The PC I'm having trouble Sleep-ing (but no problem Hibernating) has a Q6600 in it with W7HPx64, which I'd upgraded from XP Pro x64 for program compatibility reasons (XP Pro x64 enjoys/enjoyed limited support from software mfrs).

 

[fjawodfc]

Sorry if I was unclear. I was just mentioning that sleep problems are common. I'm not looking for help.

I asked about the motherboard model not because I think yours is broken but because certain motherboard/BIOS have sleep issues. The video memory and CPU are irrelevant.

If you already went back to XP, are you still interested in solving this? 7 is a lot more than eye candy, by the way. I delayed upgrading from 98 to XP until 2007 but installed 7 soon after it was released, and I'm happy with it. I still have XP installed in case I need to do something there, but I boot it no more than once every month or two.

 

[bildrk]

mine is a dual core processor, not a quad core. this computer was meant for home users, but i have heard of these computers running quad core. my motherboard does support 64 bit, but went with 32 bit b/c thats what my XP version was. idk, hindsight is 20/20 i guess. i am still interested in figuring this out, b/c my college runs windows 7, and i can get it free. windows 7 may be more than just eye candy, but i'm just calling it as i see it, and it just looks like eye candy to me.
see an earlier post about the graphics card. i had read somewhere that this could have been a problem, but it made no sense to me as to how a graphics card could be the problem, especially if it is compatible according to Microsoft?

 

[fjawodfc]

If the video card was a problem then the PC should still do SOMETHING when you wake it up. From what you've said, it doesn't even power up and the LED continues to flash, right? That seems to suggest a different cause. But you've already reverted to XP, right?

 

[bildrk]

well, the pc powers on and the led quits flashing, but i get no picture on the monitor. thats why i initially thought it was the graphics card.

 

[fjawodfc]

Ah, okay, that changes things. I thought it wasn't responding at all, i.e. staying in sleep mode. Can you tell whether it's completely frozen or Windows is actually running but there's just no picture? One way to check would be to press Caps Lock on your keyboard and see if the indicator lights up. If it's 100% frozen then it's similar to my problem.

 

[bildrk]

i don't beleive its frozen, because if i smash a bunch of keys in i can hear windows go "ding", so i'm sure its not frozen.