Power Options and Sleep Mode Problems

I'm not sure about the graphics card overheating, but it isn't overclocked.

I have a 500 watt power supply made by Antec. I also have all my case fans on medium.

Orion,

Power supply looks good to me. I'm stumped on this last problem that you are having. You might post that question in the General Discussion forum and Vista General newsgroup to see what the others may come up with for you as a hopeful solution.

Sorry,
Shawn

WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I found that Nvidia released new drivers. I tried those and some of my video freezing issues stopped!

Will post more info later, it is very late here and I have things to do tomorrow so...

Thanks for helping and talk to you later.

-Orion

Well, my computer was still crashing and now even before I could get off the runway .

So, I reinstalled Windows Vista. This time Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit SP1. I guess I'll just wait until I get a new computer or Windows 7 for 64 bit.

Thanks for all your help anyways

-Orion

Hi,
There is no beep sound in my laptop when battery goes down. What I have to do for the same?

Ranjith

Hi ranjith and welcome to the Vista forums!

Have a look there: "Low" and "Critical" battery alarms do not sound on a Windows Vista based computer

Hi all,
I have a P5N-D with 8 GB RAM DDR2 DDR2 SDRAM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -800MHz, C2Q Q6600 and a ASUS EN9800GTX.
Newest BIOS 602 installed with vista Indian Institute of Management Bangalore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 64, Nvidia nforce and gforce drivers are the newest official ones.

I want to use the standby hybrid sleep, but it does not work reliably, about every third time or so it does not completely shut down the fans still turn and but the display stays black, and it can not be waken up only be pressing the powerbutton for 5 seconds with a new start, disruptive shutdown is in the event log written.

Anyone having similar problems or suggestions what i could test?

Besides the standby problem, the system is running smooth also under stress.

i have only a multicardreader and sata hdd, a joystick and a wireless. I will try to install a driver for the keyboard.
I have checked the settings they reccomended here in the vistax64 forum tutorial. The only thing that is left to do is i will check the
powercfg -devicequery wake_armed command to see what is in.
I will also check if the cardreader is somwhere in the device manager and try to find a new driver for it.

Thanx for any suggestions and help.

Hi Shawn,

I have a question about Step Five: #9. If i select, for my network card, "allow this device to wake the computer" AND "only allow management stations to wake the computer", would this allow my networked laptop to wake the sleeping desktop and vice versa? Or is that the sort of thing that the "wake up on ARP/PING" is intended to allow? I'm looking for an easy way to allow any machine on my home network to wake any other machine. (I've read other posts about magic packets, etc...but surely there's some setting such as these that would allow wake up when a networked machine is looking for the sleeping machine?)

Thanks in advance!
Dustin

Nope! You have to sent magic packets i'm afraid.
Have a look at this thread. "wake on" question

yeah thanks Sid, but that was me in that post you linked to! I think i'm trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill with this issue, it just seems like something that should be much more intuitive, IMHO. Can you tell me what those options i referenced above are for then?