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Power Management: Causing Huge Trouble, Can't Disable!!
Posted: 2007-06-22 12:32pm
by Einhander Sn0m4n
Repost from Vent...
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Getting HIGHLY angry at the malfunctioning sleep/standby/hibernate function in Windows coming on DURING QUAKE and forcing a hard reboot. It's previously had really massive trouble with this feature causing complete system lockups before, but not this severely. It's bad enough this damn thing takes a long time to boot up and shut down as is, but now having to reboot it twice a day!?
I just disabled the whole damn power-saver thing under Control Panel>Power Options, but I get a nagging feeling that this problem will be coming back again. I thought I'd traveled this road a couple months ago already.
And as predictable as Newtonian physics, it happened again last night despite all of that shit disabled. Went into BIOS this morning, no relevant settings to fix. GRAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH!!!
<== my feelings about this issue
Posted: 2007-06-22 01:10pm
by Einhander Sn0m4n
And this is not a laptop, btw, so I have no need whatsoever for any of this shit.
Posted: 2007-06-22 01:22pm
by Darth Wong
You can't turn off ACPI in the BIOS?
Posted: 2007-06-22 01:26pm
by Resinence
It might be called APM, depending on how old the PC is.
Posted: 2007-06-22 02:03pm
by Einhander Sn0m4n
Darth Wong wrote:You can't turn off ACPI in the BIOS?
Apparently not. It's a Phoenix BIOS from early 2k6, too.
EDIT: And rebooting this thing is an excessively long and painful process. I think as soon as I get MozBackup and a new SATA drive to throw all my data on, I'm reinstalling Windoze.
Posted: 2007-06-22 03:46pm
by Glocksman
You're running XP right?
Did you try the 'power management' button on the 'Screen Savers' panel?
Posted: 2007-06-22 05:34pm
by Enigma
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Darth Wong wrote:You can't turn off ACPI in the BIOS?
Apparently not. It's a Phoenix BIOS from early 2k6, too.
EDIT: And rebooting this thing is an excessively long and painful process. I think as soon as I get MozBackup and a new SATA drive to throw all my data on, I'm reinstalling Windoze.
Let me know how XP instalation goes. I can't get mine to go past 8 or 9 percent and I am seriously thinking of switching to Vista if not revert to ME.
Posted: 2007-06-22 11:13pm
by Einhander Sn0m4n
Okay, now it simply decided to enable standby mode when Dave logged into his profile, then logged out.
The problem appears when he logs out: the computer goes into standby, then promptly freezes requiring a HARD reset (toggling the power strip's cutoff switch)! I seriously think it's a Windows-rot issue now!
Posted: 2007-06-23 12:17am
by Darth Wong
For all you know, your motherboard has simply gone to shit. It happens.
Posted: 2007-06-23 11:00am
by Einhander Sn0m4n
Darth Wong wrote:For all you know, your motherboard has simply gone to shit. It happens.
Considering it's HP factory, likely.
www.badcaps.net and all.
Just my luck the damn thing will have a proprietary form factor too.
Posted: 2007-06-23 10:59pm
by Einhander Sn0m4n
Okay, found out that it only happens when logging off a profile WHILE ANOTHER IS RUNNING. Any insights?
Posted: 2007-06-24 03:50pm
by Ace Pace
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Okay, found out that it only happens when logging off a profile WHILE ANOTHER IS RUNNING. Any insights?
Disable fast user switching, painful but works.
Posted: 2007-06-24 04:34pm
by Edi
Ace Pace wrote:Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Okay, found out that it only happens when logging off a profile WHILE ANOTHER IS RUNNING. Any insights?
Disable fast user switching, painful but works.
Painful? Why? Fast user switching should be disabled by default because it causes a lot more problems than it solves, especially with the kind of computer illiterate morons that most users are.
Posted: 2007-06-24 05:28pm
by Einhander Sn0m4n
Edi wrote:Ace Pace wrote:Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Okay, found out that it only happens when logging off a profile WHILE ANOTHER IS RUNNING. Any insights?
Disable fast user switching, painful but works.
Painful? Why? Fast user switching should be disabled by default because it causes a lot more problems than it solves, especially with the kind of computer illiterate morons that most users are.
Done. May try it out later...