Help on comatose comp

[jiaruigoh]

Hi

When I leave my computer on for long periods of time untouched, it goes into this comatose state thats like a standby that doesnt wake up.

The only thing I can do is restart the computer manually.

At first I thought it was some freak form of harddrive turning off but I turn off that option under power management.

Please help

Thanks

 

[jiaruigoh]

Help! its getting worse now.

It suddenly restarts by itself when I was playing warcraft and later on just froze up on me when i was surfing.

 

[peartree]

At first I thought it was simply that you had an 'older' system that didn't take well to the standard hibernate-after-time-is-out of Win XP, but now it sounds like you have a hardware problem or (even worse) a worm. If it's hardware, then it's a power supply problem (more than likely). If it's a worm, then it sounds like the Sasser worm. A distant third is a possible RAM problem.

I would also go into the System Properties dialogue and clear the box that says 'Automatically Restart'.


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[jiaruigoh]

I already did the automatic restart thing.

I saw the blue screen couple times but it stopped appearing after I changed the driver for my TI 4200.

I have not added any new hardware recently and this problem is new, have assembled the computer a year ago.

P4 2.4b
512 Kingston hyperx
SP1614C 150gb samsung sata
MSI 655 mobo

the comp froze on me again just now.

I tried the sassar removal and novarg removal tools from norton and both said there was nothing.

 

[RichPLS]

Disable sleep mode and or stanby mode in BIOS

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[peartree]

Well, then it sure sounds like a problem with the power supply or your on/off button. An intermittent open connection will do that kind of thing. If you can swap out the power supply, I'd try that first. Oh, it might be bad motherboard, CPU, or RAM, but we'll see. If you can turn off that automatic restart on error thing, we could all find out what's causing the errors.


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[jiaruigoh]

i messed around with the driver from my graphic card and the restart thing is fixed.

now I have to deal with the random freezing and goingtostandby and not ever waking up thing.

the freezing is the one more bothersome, is it a symptom for anything?

 

[peartree]

I want to make sure I have this straight- the computer now does random freezes? And you say 'goes to Standby' and won't wake up. How do you know if it's standby if you can't get the system out without a reboot?

If you turn off automatic reboot on error, does it show an error message? If not, there are two likely causes- a hardware error of some kind or Windows has become corrupted.

I think it would be a good thing to run the 'sfc /scannow' command from a command prompt.

p.s. Just for the fun of it, try plugging in a new keyboard and operting for a while.


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[jiaruigoh]

I used standby to describe because the fans are running but zero sound from the harddrives

I'll reformat windows during the wkend coz I have a sata drive and i removed the floppy drive to reduce clutter [😛]

I suspected the keyboard as well cause I cleaned it a few days ago so i'll try get one as well

 

[jiaruigoh]

I took out and reinstalled all the components and have a new keyboard now. but I still have the problems.

I had a blue screen just now
IRQL less or not equal error

what else can i do now?

and theres 2 distinct problem, the freezing and the notwaking up because i woke up this morning and woke it up but it was 'frozen' 😛

 

[jiaruigoh]

and I dont know if it matters, but i encountered keyboard errors a few times.

and im almost sure its an hardware issue right now because i formatted the harddrive and was reinstalling windows when it froze