Problem is in the title thread. Windows turns off, screen goes into power saving mode, but lights are still on and fans are still whirling. When I try to turn it off in save mode, it freezes on "shutting down computer".It will restart although it takes ~30 seconds to do so.Problem started last Friday. I haven't installed any new hardware since Wednesday, when I installed my HDD. I might have updated a driver, but I can't recall.I've reset the BIOS back to original settings also, but that's had no luck.
I recently bought Windows 7 and installed a new RAM(my old was 2gb RAM) and upgraded to 4gb....so heres the problem,Sometimes when i plug something in my USB ports my computer randomly shutsdown..mostly after 30mins or so..
I've done a lot of searches using variations of the above title and came up empty or just plain missed the answer.I'd like to know, if it is not asking too much, the following points:
1. What exactly is the function of Link State Power Management in the Power Options Advanced Settings, PCI Express?
2. What are the implications of using the options available:
a) Off.
b) Maximum power savings.
c) Moderate power savings.
d) Which option is the best selection for my Dell laptop.
I use my PC for audio production and I have a few external controller devices that are USB powered, for example a midi keyboard. I recently had to build PC due to a theft....long story short after building the new PC I've noticed that my USB buses have continual power to these external devices after I've powered down the PC. My old windows 7 PC did not do this. Is there a setting I can change to shut off power to the USB buses when I power off the PC? Or is this a hardware issue?
i've tried to set the option for pressing the power button to 'Do Nothing' so no body can shut the computer, and yet it shuts down by pressing the button, so why is that and how can i work this out?
Over the past 2 years my PC has been afflicted with random power off/power on/reboot events.It will go for months without these and then have multiples of the events in a day. (I had 8 of them 3 days ago.)I assume I have a hardware problem, but nothing has been found and I'm grasping at straws.The time between power off and power on is several seconds.I had assumed this rules out a software cause, but maybe I'm wrong. I know Windows can schedule a power off, but can it tell BIOS (or something) to power back on in a few seconds?I know blaming the power supply is a much more simple explanation, but then I'm left with explaining the intermittent nature of the failure.
From many days the battery icon is missing from the taskbar, the notification icon is greyed out even if the laptop is not on AC. i followed the the tutorial System Icons - Enable or Disable but nothing happened.
My computer wouldn't shut down, even with holding in the power button, and so I just let it run out the battery. Then it wont turn on. I tried holding down the power button to clear out any charge that might be remaining. I have managed to get it back on, but I have to make a connection at the clip where you plug the power button ribbon into the mobo. Also, this is the second time I have had to do this. The computer works fine afterwards...or seems to anyway.
My daughter has a Hp laptop and it was working fine, but the screen was coming apart. so my husband put it back together, Now it will not come on. It's getting some power but not coming on at the power button. The lights flashes when you push the button then nothing.
I have just finished writing a complete book on all the aspects I could think of on Windows 7, from installation to tweaking.About two days after completing it, and I am not the fastest or best writer in the world!, I got this in Technet Email Do have a look at it. It is good stuff Download the Windows 7 Power Users Guide eBook FREE! - UK TechNet - Site Home - TechNet Blogs?
i recently sourced a macPowerPC G4 ,im an ardent windows user and was wondering if there was any way i could install Windows 7 on it as a stand alone without virtual machines holding it.
how to add the "Dim the Display" feature to a desktop?
I found a utility called "Pangolin Screen Brightness" that allows you to do it manually, so I know it's possible, but can't find anything that can add that option to the power settings.
I don't want to be prompted everytime I fart for administrative credentials on my Win 7 64 bit box.I am just moving my menu items around and get prompted for admin credentials.
I have both Windows Vista and Windows 7 on the same PC. I run a 64 bit version of Windows 7 and both Vista 64 and 32 bit. The problem is that no matter what mouse I choose to use on Windows 7, shortly after using the system for at least an hour I either have pointer problems or battery problems. I use the same mouse on Vista and it can go months without an issue with the batteries going low. I have used othe mice but I am used to using the MS Intellipoint. On both O/S's I have the latest drivers and where the MS system gives you a leaway on usage on the changing of batteries the Win 7 system gives you hardly any recovery time before replacing the second battery. I use mainly photographic and artware programs so The issue is lagely to do with the workspace management in windows. Power seems to be a high wastage on win 7 whereas win Vista just takes its time to boot in. The driver database in both Win 7 and Vista seems to be identical about the only difference I can find is in coordinate checksum amalgamation on a 64 bit datalog. Something needs to be sorted because this is not the ideal selling point for Windows 8. In fact I am even more put off of the newer interface because it seems to be catering for smudgey fingers more than the everyday user whom uses the computer to work for him.
I was among the 1.4 million SDG&E customers that lost power on Sept 8, 2011. At around 10:30PM the power came back on and I attempted to boot up my Win 7 machine (which was on at the time of the outage). It gets through POST, displaying the list of auto detected devices, clears that screen to black and then displays a flashing white caret on the black background and gets stuck there.Any ideas on how to restore without re-installing Win 7 (and everything else)?
On an HP pavilion P4 3.0ghz 160gb hdd 1.5gb ram.While upgrading from Vista to Windows 7 i had a power failure. Now when i reboot power comes on fans turn, hard drive, DVD drive lights blind during POST. However, no response at all to the monitor, no beeps, no display nothing at all. Can't even get into the BIOS.
I have microsoft win 7 enterprise edition with intel core 2 4400 2.0 gh processor w/ 2 gigs ram I checked the task manager for processes that take alot of processing power. One process stood out in the crowd svchost.exe description is host process for windows services located in c/windows/system32
I use Performance mode, and set it to NEVER turn off ANYTHING, including the monitor.I hit apply, etc etc.It will hold this setting for a while, then after a reboot, or turning off at night, it loses this setting, and reverts to turn off monitor after 20 minutes.Why is Windows 7 doing this?
I've got two hard drives on my Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit system.They are drives C: (a solid-state drive) and drive D: (a 500GB WD standard drive).After 30 minutes, drive D: powers down to save energy. I've only got a few video files on it - I use it as a media drive. I'll be using the system just fine. When I open up Windows Explorer, and RIGHT-CLICK on any file on drive C: (the solid-state drive), there is a pause while I have to wait for drive D: to power up, and get up to speed (about 8 seconds). Then, the system responds again.My question: Why is this? I'm not looking at any files on D:, why does Windows need to power it back up at all when I am dealing with drive C:?
Brand new PC. Windows 7, 64 bit. Power options worked till I downloaded "Web Shots", then they stopped working. (I've used this program for years with no problems and would really like to contiune using it.) After about 45 seconds of downtime, PC goes to sleep and requires a password when you wake it up. No matter what power options I change or put in, the PC continues to have this problem.
I just built a new computer about 2 weeks ago, and everything seemed fine until recently. I started getting "Kernel-Power" errors, usually when I play Star Wars, the old republic, there is no BSoD instead what happens is that I am doing everything normally, and suddenly i get this streak of multicolored pixels across a black screen and the pc restarts.
My Computer specs are: 500w Corsair PSU. Sapphire Radeon 6850 i5-2500k OCZ 60gb SSD 16gb ripjaws DDR3 Asus P8Z68-V LE mobo.
I have the latest bios on my motherboard, Microsoft Security essentials returns clean, no minidump is created even though I have it on.
Also I'm running Prime95 on my pc right now and have been for the past hour, but I can't recreate the error that way.
I recently set up an Acer aspire running Win7 Pro. Went fine. Left machine on overnight and in morning, video was dark and nothing I tired restored it, including reboot. It is as if it got "stuck" in a power saving mode and wont come out of itMonitor works fine with other machine
I want to show more than 2 power plan in windows 7 I saw pic on internet that have 3 power plan How to edit and show all power plans in windows 7 I mean I want to show Balanced & power saver and high performance not show 2 only for example balanced & high performance?
I live outside US, which means, a power outage from time to time is normal, but when that happens in the middle of a crucial moment is very stressful. I went to the BIOS and turned on the option Restart After Power Failure, though it wasn't what I was looking for. Is there a way to set my Windows 7 to resume my last session (all the programs I was using) after power failure ?
ASUS G50V, shutting off randomly anywhere from 1 to 10 minutes. Seemed like a OS problem, fresh install of windows, seemed ok for awhile started doing it again, i think its a windows update causing the problem.Still happens in safe mode, ran msconfig and turned off half of the services, been running 2 hours with out shutdown, pretty sure i ruled out hardware failure, event viwer log didnt say much just code 6008 windows shut down unexpectedly.
Granola is a piece of software that clams to scale your CPU usage according to save you energy use, therefore battery life on your laptop. If all I want to do is improve battery life when on the road, would it be batter to just use Windows 7's built-in Power Saver Mode, or Does Granola actually do a better job at extending battery life via its CPU scaling?
