Hibernating Computer But Then "comes Back Alive" Automatically?
Nov 2, 2007
Got an XP S2, with 256M of RAM, 2 hard disks of 40 meg each. For over 2 years, I've had it set to "When I press Power Button, go to Hibernate." Worked great, avoiding godawful long reboots.I rebooted when updating or installing, and very infrequently, when things choked up the machine.Nothing else is wrong I've run a couple of virus checkers, a couple of Register cleaners, and some clean-up disk utilities. Nothing negative, but no effect whatsoever.
I've gone into Power Settings from Control Panel. Several times I took it out of the Hibernate instruction, rebooted, and put in back into Hibernate mode. No luck.I did the same thing, only setting it to Total Off, to Restart, to Ask Me What to Do, and to Go to Standby. After power off, reboot, and later reset to Hibernate, no luck. It continues to "UnHibernate" after a minute or two of darkness & inactivity, when it's supposed to be hibernating.
2005 MCE WIN XP, if i go to START, ALL PROGRAMS, and scan thru my programs, the amount of time to scroll thru programs is about 3-4 seconds, before it closes out, also RENAMING a folder, on desktop, same thing happens, for instance, renaming a folder PICTURES, i get to PIC, then it kicks me out. I have OPtical wireless mouse, replaced batteries with fully charged ones, no difference, also mouse 12 inches from reciever.
I need a little favor, recently I've just discovered by accident that my Dell PC couldn't go into Standby Mode (nor Hibernate), everything froze, my mouse pointer wouldn't move and my keyboard was sort of "dead," like the system froze (on the "Preparing to Standby/Hibernate" screen) or something like that.I did a search on Google as well as this forum, all fetched me different solutions, I've tried quite a few but nothing seems to work I've a Dell Dimension 5150, here are the specs, my HD is 80GB instead of 160.. Running on Windows XP Home Edition.
After fighting with a sequence of problems seemingly caused by malware, I finally bit the bullet and reinstalled XP. Now Laptop will no longer give me the option of Hibernating on Shutdown. When I entered "POWERCFG /HIBERNATE/ ON" it tells me SYSTEM DOES NOT SUPPORT HIBERNATION! It did before the reinstall. It wouldn't be a BFD if I didn't run my HP pavilion only on batteries. It was very convenient to hibernate when one battery ran down, while I put the other one in. (Why do I only run on batteries? -- after spending $$$ to replace the HP DC jack, I decided not to do it again when the new one failed --- no I didn't ever yank the cord out and no one else uses the machine.)
I've recently installed Sony Sound Forge 8 which, as part of the installation, creates an ASP.NET user.Since this user was created, I have to click on my User Account to log in (it's the only one thatg shows on the welcome screen, the ASP one is hidden) How do I get it back to logging me in automatically - there's no password on the account.
When I switch on the main power, the computers starts automatically ie. without switching the CPU. The following message is displayed on the screen 'CMOS settings wrong.Press F1 to restore defaults and continue' Upon pressing F1 the machine starts. I do'nt know how to set CMOS settings right Time/Date settings change automatically.
I cannot install any software.Messages like file missing.Cannot open installer pkg.Contact your vendor etc. I do'nt have the installation cs availablewith me.However when I try to repair/reinstall with the help of my other win xp cd, i get the message 'key no. is wrong.I cannot format the c: drive from within.
this is rather annoying, at random times my computer automatically turns off. sometimes it restarts but other times i have to repeatedly press the power "on" button in order for it to turn on again. why might this occur and is there any solution?
everytime I boot my computer up it just logs off, I click the log in, and then it just goes off again. this happens in all modes, safe mode, networking mode, iv tried just about everything.I tried to use my xp disk and it doesnt load it, I have set it too boot from the disk aswell, and it makes no difference it just loads as normal and then logs out againIv made a boot floppy disk, and it lets me get to a form of DOS screen, but its useless, all the commands dont work, I have put the xp disk in, and tried too use the dos too install xp but it doesnt do anything
I had a bad virus on my computer and I wanted to boot it into safe mode. So I tried and everytime I tried it wouldn't work. I kept getting this message on a blue screen saying my video driver failed to initialize and it shut down automatically but it would boot up normal if I didn't try to go into safe mode.So I read that you could set your computer to automatically boot into safe mode from msconfig so I went in and set it to boot into safe mode automatically every time I powered up. So I turned off my computer and tried to.No matter what I do, no matter what option I select the blue screen with the error about my video driver comes up and it shuts down automatically.
I am running a computer on Windows XP originally designed for Windows 98. Once I put it on there everytime I go to shutdown the computer will say "It is safe to turn off your computer" and I have to shut it down manually by the power button. The older operating systems would shut down automatically when I went to shut down but for some reason XP won't on this computer. How can I make the computer shutdown automatically?
I have a xp sp2 and Norton internet security suite 2007 installed computer.It restarts automatically. I did a full system scan with Norton."No spywares, malwares, viruses detected." But the computer restarts automatically.
This one is for all you gamers who LOVE to LAN. It is much faster than finding an ip on the server, then typing in that longwinded address, and hoping your fingers didn't slip. Anyway, all you have to do is type the name of the computer you want to connect to in the "ip" place of any game. Your computer will automatically detect its ip, and you're ready to play!This will only work if you are playing across a private network and not across the internet.
my problem is that wen i turn on my computer it loads for like 5-10 seconds then it turns off. i have replaced the motherboard and the power box because of this and it still does it. i have unplugged the cd drive and all the fans and everythin cuz i thought it waznt enough power and ive tryed only loading one HD at a time and it still turns off. please contact me through AIM: PIMPstashi0 or just PM me through here
I've got two operating systems on my computer. One of which isn't set up. this is causing my computer to automatically boot up into setup for that OS. I need to find out how to delete it.
hi there, can anyone please help me find out why my pc keeps re-booting. there seems to be no one thing that makes it do it, as it can happen at any time and while doing anything. DRIVING ME NUTS! Dont know where to start looking to find out why. please can anyone suggest anything that i could do. thankyou. also tryed running a defrag and it is telling me that it is scheduled to do a Chkdsk /f and wont let me defrag. what does this mean??
I am putting my computer on standby but it comes out after a few seconds. I have set the adapter to WOL (Wake on LAN). How to tell what is waking it up? I only want it to wake up when I access the IP address myself.
I have had this problem for a long time. Every time I put my computer on Hibernation mode, it automatically wakes up after a random period of time, sometimes ten minutes to half and hour or sometimes only thirty seconds. I tried everything: unplugging my mouse, keyboard, Ethernet cable from my computer during Hibernation, and it still wakes up. Stand By mode also affected. This started to happen about one year ago (my computer is two years old). I have asked this question many times at other places, and the most common answer I got is: "your computer is possessed" NOT IT'S NOT
I've got a laptop with windows XP. About a half hour ago, it shut itself off. When I tried to restart it, I got the error window that explains something went wrong, and offers to start it in normal mode or safe mode. I select normal mode, it'll show the loading screen, then shut itself off. Rinse, repeat, same result. This laptop is about 3 1/2 years old.
. When I choose to shutdown, it tells me it's shutting down but then restarts. It gave me the option to go back to the last settings that worked, which solved the problem for a little while. Then it started doing it again, and I have no idea why it keeps restarting.
i'm currently using XP Powertoy to automate the login process of my PC. I've entered my Domain username and password so that everytime when the PC boots up it will automatically log me on. The problem that i'm having is that if there's a power failure and the PC boots up when i'm not there , others will have access to my files and folders. Is there any way to automatically lock the PC after the logon process.
My computer crashes and restarts. it will automatically restart itself after around five to fifteen minutes of usage.I think it might be a video card setting or driver problem. ran devmgmt.msc and there is an unknown device under imaging devices.
Recently, I began having problems when I chose to go into standby. Hard drive just shut off. After several tech discussions with Dell, the computer now just shuts down on its own when I leave it unattended for any length of time. Dell asked me to uninstall/reinstall Windows XP. I am trying to avoid this because it is a lot of work to back up all of my files. I could try prior to doing uninstall/reinstall?
Recently my computer folder automatically opens at startup. I've tried going to msconfig and regedit to fix the problem per the instructions I've seen on the web but it doesn't work.
I have a toshiba notebook computer and right now i am on a different computer because my laptop is acting funny. When i tget into the start up screen i have to immediatly tellit manually to boot from the hardrive other wise it just shuts off. Also the radio buttons just automatically go to the dofault button all the way to the left and and its really agrivationg because i can turn off my computer. Also a lot of times i can't use the space bar because it just wojn't work and then other times when it is not being pressed it just goes streight across the text box. Also the scroll bar just goes streight to the bottom of the document and i won't go back up.
My system crashed a couple of times this week and automatically ran the checkdisk function. Where is the report kept, if it is kept at all. Am I able to see it? The checkdisk page runs so fast that there is no way of reading the errors it has found. If I run the function myself from: Local Disk:C/Properties/Tools/Error-checking Automatically fix is there some way to specify a destination or log under which this report can be kept?
Twice so far in the past 4 days my computer has restarted itself automatically. When I get back to the desktop I check the task manager to see if any foul programs are running (which I didn't recognize any) and I noticed my CPU usage was fluctuating between 50% - 100%, never lower. I rebooted into safe mode and the CPU usage was norma (bouncing between 1 - 10%). I've ran adaware, spybot, and trend micro online virus scan which all came up clean. I haven't gotten any error messages or anything like it.
