My PC and its problems sleeping

[8ballslackz]

Hey guys,

Since day one my PC has had problems with sleep mode. I typically make it enter sleep mode when I'm away from it for more than 1 hour. So in a 24 hour day, it's sleeping for at least half of that.

Initially I had problems either getting it to sleep (it would try, and then crash and shut down) or I had problems waking it up (even the power button wouldn't wake it up, I'd have to do a reset). These errors were completely random, occurred roughly 50% of the time, and led to BSoD errors aplenty, but then they pretty much disappeared.

Now, for whatever reason my PC doesn't seem to enter sleep mode on its own. It will stay awake for literally hours upon hours only sleeping when I explicitly say so. Currently I have it set to turn off the display after 10 minutes of activity (which it does 100% of the time), and sleep after 20 minutes (which it does roughly 50% of the time).

What the heck's goin' on here?

P.S., each time I have my PC enter sleep mode, the diagnostic "window" on my MoBo pauses at "03" for a few seconds then sleeps. Don't know if that's relevant.

P.P.S., according to ASRock's manual, the diagnostic code refers to "North Bridge initialization before microcode loading." Again, don't know if this helps.

 

[RaDiKaL_]

your pc not going to sleep after 20min of idling, could be simply because there's some process using resources thus resetting the "idle count" (if you're sure there's no processes using your pc while on idle you might wanna check your pc for viruses/trojans)

As for the 03 code from your mobo.... a google search with the code + exact model of your mobo could give you some insight about what's going on...

Edit:

seems like this issue has been solved in this post:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1626998/asrock-z77-extreme-crashing-sleep-shutdown-properly.html

check it out hopefully its the solution to your problem

 

[juanjostorreshernndez]

Write down,your specs, OS, Mobo,PSU, all details,and maybe I can help you

 

[Shaun o]

The problem is down to the way ACPI modes are set in the bios of the board.

I will give you and example, If you fail to have S1-S3 modes enabled in the bios.
The board will fail when trying to signal a device connected to it or part of it to power down or resume full power status.

This must be set up right in the bios or leads to the symptoms you are having.
Please look up ACPI power modes it will explain all, then check to see if it is enabled in your bios, and the correct s modes are set.

It`s the most common cause of the problem you are saying you have with sleep, and resume, suspend mode of the pc.

And also Bsod crashes. As the Acpi driver of windows cannot talk to the bios since the S modes or the APCI mode of the bios are disabled.

Have a read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface

 

[8ballslackz]

your pc not going to sleep after 20min of idling, could be simply because there's some process using resources thus resetting the "idle count" (if you're sure there's no processes using your pc while on idle you might wanna check your pc for viruses/trojans)

As for the 03 code from your mobo.... a google search with the code + exact model of your mobo could give you some insight about what's going on...

Edit:

seems like this issue has been solved in this post:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1626998/asrock-z77-extreme-crashing-sleep-shutdown-properly.html

The thread you referred me to definitely helped me to understand the error message I'm receiving, however I'm unsure as to how it actually helps me specifically. I'm 100% positive my GPU is compatible with my MoBo, and is in the correct port.

The problem is down to the way ACPI modes are set in the bios of the board.

I will give you and example, If you fail to have S1-S3 modes enabled in the bios.
The board will fail when trying to signal a device connected to it or part of it to power down or resume full power status.

This must be set up right in the bios or leads to the symptoms you are having.
Please look up ACPI power modes it will explain all, then check to see if it is enabled in your bios, and the correct s modes are set.

It`s the most common cause of the problem you are saying you have with sleep, and resume, suspend mode of the pc.

And also Bsod crashes. As the Acpi driver of windows cannot talk to the bios since the S modes or the APCI mode of the bios are disabled.

Have a read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface

Very interesting. I've heard of the various ACPI power modes (S1-S5), but I had no idea to what they referred. Even more confusing are my MoBo's BIOS settings. As is typical with my MoBo, there doesn't appear to be anything straightforward with the ACPI settings. It mentions the different devices that can wake it from S5 ("Deep Sleep") but there are no options to enable/disable S2 or S3 power modes.

Write down,your specs, OS, Mobo,PSU, all details,and maybe I can help you

My specs are listed in my signature.

 

[jfriend00]

I have a similar problem with an ASRock Z77 Extreme4. This thread is marked solved. What did you do to solve it?