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Ever since upgrading to windows 8 and 8.1 I can't enter sleep or hibernate mode. The monitors will turn off but and I can't wake up the computer. I don't think it is acutally entering sleep mode as I can still hear the harddrive working and the fans are on. It happens everytime I enter sleep mode. I have to hold down the power button and do a hard reboot. Otherwise the computer runs fine (but I imagine not being able to sleep the computer is costing me ~50-100$ a year and is not very environmentally friendly. I've googled extensively and haven't gotten anything to work. One thing I saw when google someone mentioned that the keyboard won't let me turn on CAPS lock when its in it's frozen state and they pointed out that this implys a hardware problem rather than a software one. Is this true? Things I have tried: Reintalling chipset drivers Chaning BIOS settings to S1 sleep and disabling Deep power off, (I have the newest bios from Gateway circa 2011) powercfg.exe -energy (didn't show me much) Safe mode Disabled windows media center. Reinstalled ATI drivers. Formatted and reinstalled windows 8. Things I can try if you think they may be useful Taking out my graphics card and installing the on board graphics. What else should I try before I buy a new motherboard? Is there any way to get logs to tell me what is happening the powercfg.exe -energy does not actually put the comp to sleep. Computer Gateway DX4850-27e Windows 8.1 64 bit (upgraded from windows 7 pro) Core i5 2300 6gb ddr3 665mhz ATI HD 6850 (Upgraded from stock) antec 430W (Upgraded from stock) Corsair Force GT 128GB SSD Bigntasty fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Jun 17, 2014 |
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Jun 17, 2014 13:58
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My current thought is it is some sort of bios incompatibility with windows 8, as it was working fine with Windows 7. I just want to exhaust all other possiblities before I drop 100$ and 6 hours installing a new mother board only for it to still not work.
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Jun 18, 2014 13:17
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It does the same thing if I try to soft shutdown the computer. Although it is fine if I do a restart. Is there some kind of error log I can get to or create so I can see where this problem is coming from.
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Jul 4, 2014 15:43
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Have you installed the latest BIOS update for the motherboard? Is there a particular reason you are using Windows 8.1 instead of Windows 7 when none of your hardware requires it or even fully supports it?
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Jul 5, 2014 02:26
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