When trying to enter sleep mode vista locks the computer and goes to the welcome screen. Event views shows "preparing for Away mode". I have had this problem once before so I restored the computer and it fixed it. But at this point I simply want to know what is causing it to happen. Bios is configured. Hibernation is off. no scheduled tasks. Bios is properly configured.
View 4 RepliesI have vaio with vista home premium installed on it. My laptop goes into sleep mode involuntarily, anytime while working on it. What i have observed is, this normally happens when i am trying to type on my laptop keyboard, All of sudden it goes to sleep mode and i have to press enter to get it back. The frequency of this unusual behavior has only increased by time. I have already installed the latest display drivers, I have also reset my Bios to default setting. Nothing seems to be working.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'd reinstalled Vista Prem Home Basic on a Celeron based machine without SP1 or SP2. And funny enough, the system locks up. This is a fresh install. Although we did install her Verizon AntiVirus suite, could it possiblly prevent the system from working right? Even though we disabled it, for some reason or another when my customer shuts it down it states that it is still running.
View 5 Replies View RelatedSystem is 1 month old.
Gateway FX6800 6Gb Ram, i7 CPU.
System locks up every 3 days +/- or so.
System is now approx. 2 hours since reboot. TM reports.
Physical: 6134
Cached: 4299
Free: 34
Physical Memory Usage show 2.1Gb/35%
Over the course of the 3 days the amount of Physical Memory Used will grow to 5.5Gb+ at which time the system slows down to a crawl and the system needs to be rebooted.
There are 3 users with accounts on the system and all stay logged in 100% of the time. Switching between users as necessary. Early warning of the system needing to be rebooted is the system taking 10+ minutes to switch between users.
If I add up the reported (in TM) Working Set of RAM for all of the running applications it adds up to only a fraction of the amount of physical memory reported as being used.
I at first thought the problem was related to Norton 360. But after uninstalling/reinstalling it several times and eventually leaving it uninstalled the problem is still there.
I have been having this very frustrating problem with Vista 64. The machine seems to be find and I can run anything I want, but then it will just lock up. The screen shows what ever graphics was there but its all scrambled. This can happen at an time after the desktop show, 2 minutes or 2 hours. I can run in safe mode all day and night so I'm thinking graphics or some other driver. I have run tests using Everest Ultimate and everything seems fine, except it will lockup like everything else. I have had this issue since the beginning, when I had 1 video card. I have gotten Crossfire enabled and SP1 installed. I am using the latest Catalyst driver 8.3. One note, when I installed the newest driver, it changed how the screen looks when it locks up, but its still the same issue.
View 8 Replies View RelatedVista booted to the Desktop OK despite the new MoBo having a totally different chipset etc. However one problem niggles, if a CD/DVD is inserted any attempt at accessing the contents in Explorer locks up the system and I loose the Desktop, even Cntr+Alt+Delete doesn't work. On first boot Vista wanted me to activate due to the new hardware config so I did, with hindsight maybe I would have been better off doing a repair install, as I am now concerned a repair install will require activation this could be a problem with Microsoft maybe?. I have tried uninstalling DVD drive, IDE/SATA controllers and tested the DVD drive in another machine
View 8 Replies View RelatedIs there any other way to lock vista without going into start menu and clicking on lock this computer, as i want to have it assigned to a multimedia key on my keyboard.
Like there a sleep button on my keyboard, but when i use it, it sleeps, dissconecting me from the net and etc so my downloads will stop.
Just want to be able to have a key that when i press it will just lock the screen of my pc and thats all.
I'm running Vista Home Premium SPA, 2 GB RAM, Firefox, Spyware Doctor, MBAM, SAS and CCleaner, Office 2007. I also have Spyware doctor installed on a Windows 7 laptop. Can anyone tell me (or redirect me) if my Spyware Doctor scanner (or any other scheduled scanner) runs when the computer is either sleeping or is in hibernate mode?
My Spyware Doctor history file suggest that it's been several weeks since the last scheduled scan, yet the scanner scheduler is set to run every night. We close the laptop cover each night and I'm not sure if closing the cover stops the scheduled scan from running.
when i leave my computer on untouched my monitor sleeps. then i shake the mouse or hit a button it says Digital Input and turns back on. Can i stop my monitor from sleeping?
View 3 Replies View RelatedEvery time I open an Office application (Word, Excel, etc.) or Outlook, then Speech recognition seems to fire up. When I have my headset plugged in (USB Logitech headset & Microphone) I get a little panel appear which has a microphone icon and it says “Sleeping” or “Try saying “Start Listening””. I have to close this every time. If I unplug my headset & microphone, then on opening the applications I get a pop up message saying “Speech Recognition could not start” with accompanying text of “make sure your audio hardware is working properly and check your audio configuration in the Audio Devices and Sound Themes control panel”.
Every time I open an application it starts, and I don’t find that friendly. Even with the microphone plugged in, and the setting turned to “Off”, it fires up. Just how do I get it to go way for good (and be controlled when I want to use it?) – any ideas? (On Vista Home premium 32 bit SP2)
i put my laptop on sleep mode,then i leave home while my laptop still on sleep mode, there is no wifi on air, and when i open my laptop on a place that provides internet, my msn masenger reconnect automatically, (even my signing in set up is not to sign in automatically after turing on my compter on if it was shut down).
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm sharing my PC internet connection to my Apple Mac Pro now i am starting to use the mac a lot more and was wondering if there was a way to put my PC to sleep but still have the connection alive for my mac pro to stay connected to the internet.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have tried several different settings and cannot get my monitor to wake up after sleeping for several hours. I have tried hybrid on and off. I have changed various settings in BIOS. I have made sure USB never turns off. I have changed the settings related to PCIe in sleep mode... Nothing works. I have a ABIT IP35Pro Board with an Sapphire 3850 Video card.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI sometimes get kicked off the internet while I'm at home, while I'm actually on it as in not after "sleep" mode. My roommate doesn't have problems, and I haven't noticed problems elsewhere although I only very rarely use it elsewhere. I have started to use it just in front of the modem itself, without any other devices nearby.
It works again after I restart the computer. We had the key changed recently. My roommate used to get kicked off but then would just unplug & replug the modem, and she didn't have to restart her computer. I've checked with Gateway and they swear for some reason it couldn't be my computer although that seems fishy to me. Comcast can't see why it would have to do with them and to be honest I can't either................
my desktop as usual, its a dell XPS 630I and Ive had it maybe 4 months total. I just checked my email and logged back off to the user screen. While I was gone it kicked into hibernation mode like it always does when noones using it. When I got home like 4 hours later I moved the mouse to bring it out of sleeping and nothing happened the screen stayed blank. So I waited and waited and it never kicked back on so I manually restarted it with the power button and it loaded to the dell screen which took alot longer than normal to load, right after that it popped up "Error Loading OS". I tried restarting and hitting the F8 button... no luck.... I hit F12 and tried running the diagnostics... nothing came up...
I put the dell cd in that has vista on it and hit the repair button near the bottom of the install screen and ran the different tests and nothing came up wrong. However I tried the memory test and it started I needed to reboot in order to use it. however when I did that it kicked back to the "Error Loading OS" screen. So thats where I am right now and I have no clue what to do, I am going to just do a clean install but theres stuff Id really like to get off this drive before I wipe it clean.
Our family has 3 laptops running Vista - 1 basic and 2 home premium. One of the home premiums will not stay sleeping. Sometimes I have to make it sleep twice or even 3 times before it will appear to stay sleeping. But the next morning it is no longer sleeping. I have to unplug the Ethernet cable to be assured that it is not doing anything on the web. How can I correct this problem?
View 4 Replies View Relatedtoday i was on the net(Internet.com to be exact) all of the suddon ie8 locked up. it wouldent respond and i couldent close it. . then nothing worked and i had to do hard shutdown. im on ie8 in vista premium. i got ie8 from windows update. is there a problem here? everything works fine now, but why would thgat happen?
View 6 Replies View Relatedhaving trouble downloading from the adobe site. Been trying to download flash player for 2 days. adobe sie locks up IE8?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have been having major problems with Vista for the past 10 days. It seemed to start after 2 updates on May 13th and I spent several hours on the phone with Microsoft on May 18th and things seemed better - the remaining problem is that the system locks up after a period of inactivity - usually and hour or two. It has also locked with a backup program running and thus fails to complete the backup. Each of the following errors seem to re-appear in the event log each time
the system locks -
Event ID 45 - volmgr ??? the system could not load the crash dump driver
Event ID 7000 ??? Service Control Manager Event Log Provider - The Parallel
port driver service failed to start due to the following error: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.
Event ID 6008 - Event Log System - The previous system shutdown at 9:41:14 AM on 5/22/2008 was unexpected. I have to shut down using the power button and restart.
Whenever I put my computer to sleep, it doesn't actually GO to sleep. Rather, it's like if I had just locked it instead. The display stays on and it just goes to the Log In screen for vista. When my computer used to go to sleep, the display would turn off and so would all the LED indicators on my laptop, expect for the power indicator, which would blink on and off. Btw, I'm running a Dell Inspiron 1420 with Windows Vista Basic 32bit.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI made the switch over from XP to Vista 64. What a nightmare with Quickbooks. Quickbooks is not willing to help me unless I pay for their tech support. I can get the program running but am not able to print certain areas and can't email my invoices to my customers. I am really frustrated. QB locks up alot also, "not responding" so I have to close QB and restart.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am running Vista SP1. I'm using Windows Mail. Some emails lock up my windows mail. I can navigate to other internet functions but the mail is locked up? what is locking up my mail.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a message in my inbox and everytime I try to open,delete I get windows Mail not responding.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIf I'm in a video demanding environment (counter strike) my mouse hangs, locks or pauses.
If I move my mouse fast it also locks up from time to time. Sometimes it locks up for like 5 seconds or so. When it locks up I can hear the system shut the port on and off because I hear the ding. It also happens frequently when I pick up the mouse to move it.
I have quad 2.4 intel.
4gb ram
Vista ultimate 32 bit
mx510 through USB.
Mouse seems to work on my laptop and other desktop and both are XP. I d/led the newest drivers for the 510 and I have scoured the net for info on my problem.
I have Windows Vista 32 bit Home Premium, and Windows Explorer randomly locks up on me sometimes. It happens when I open control panel, start menu, sometimes the "Uninstall Program" list.
View 9 Replies View RelatedVista Home Premium x64 Locks up/Freezes after any wireless connection to the internet is made. The time seemed random at 1st but after some bios/hardware tweaking I can get connected for approx 10 sec before Vista locks up/freezes. It is not like it is becoming "non responsive" - All operations cease - the mouse pointer will not move nor any keyboard command registering (alt+ctrl+del, ctr+shift+backspace, alt+f4, etc.).....nothing. I have to cut the power to restart the computer.
This used to happen while I was playing Assassin's Creed but after adjusting the settings in the bios that has gone to a minimum. I spoke w/ both EVGA and D-Link tech support but they were unable to pinpoint the problem. EVGA suggested that lock ups/freezes are generally caused by the graphics card and/or RAM. I built this rig and all of the most recent drivers/bios versions were used in the installation of the hardware. This is the only thing hindering me from completing my gaming rig. Vista performance rating 5.7 (due to processor - all other ratings at 5.9) Can smoothly run Crysis at 1600x1200, No Anti-A, and all other settings on Very High w/ DX10.
My Dell XPS with Windows Vista constantly locks up. I thought maybe it was McAfee causing the problem so I uninstalled it and installed Norton. The problem is still occuring. I even upgraded the ram from 2 gb to 4. I turned off the Gadgets on the sidebar, run defrag, and reboot. It doesn't seem to matter what I'm doing, whether I'm in Windows Mail, using IE7 or in a program. I've read many posts regarding this but haven't found a resolution to my problem. If anyone has some new advice, I would love to hear it.
View 5 Replies View RelatedMicrosoft Mail locks up when I ask it to print. I have no problems with any other application (that I've found yet).
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a windows vista that boots OK, but after about 30 minutes the screen becomes a bit distorted and the PC freezes. I cannot move mouse/keyboard nor can I ping it. In safe mode it doesnt lock up.Trying to find where to look. I have disbaled most startup apps and it still locks up in normal mode.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've been having issues with COD4 locking up. It locks up randomly. I've proved it's not an overheating issue by playing Crysis on full graphics in a high resolution for two hours. So it's definitely not a heat issue. Joe has informed me that driver lock ups will be recognized and will keep the OS from kernel panic or hard system locks. My only other guess is SoundMAX (on-board high definition 7.1 sound). It's given me numerous problems in several games. I've killed all background processes. I have not killed PunkBusterA and B because I play professionally on CEVO and CAL. Also, Crysis uses PunkBuster.
Just for grins I checked my CPU/GPU/MOBO temps and they all appear well within operational ranges. I have no add-ins except for my graphics card: EVGA GeForce GTX 280. I'm on the i7 processor with the P6T Deluxe motherboard. I use a SATA Hard Drive (I was thinking about firmware updates, but I doubt it's a hard drive issue since Crysis runs for hours). I'm using a Sony CD/DVD RW ROM. My OS is Vista 64 Ultimate. I'm using a USB mouse/keyboard and DELL Flat Panel (DVI).......
Does anyone have any idea of any fix for this. The systems totally locks up randomly when running a web video and or audio program and it seems to be in Media Player, iTunes and other programs as well. I am running Vista home basic on this machine but it does the same thing on my HP running Vista Ultimate as well. I go back into the error messages in the application, systems, and performance logs and can not find any suggestions on what the problem could possible be. I have looked through Blogs and find that this is happening on a variety of machines and configurations and versions of Vista and the only suggestion was to work in the config.msc utility and try turning off non Microsoft services that you can.
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