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General Category => Software => Topic started by: war lord on November 29, 2008, 10:01:38 AM

Title: computer sleep help
Post by: war lord on November 29, 2008, 10:01:38 AM

i was wondering if there was a way to get my computer to sleep after it was idle for about 5 minutes when i run a big program that takes a while and i have my computer set to auto sleep after 5 minutes, my computer always sleeps in the middle of the program and it gets messed up im runnning windows vista 32 bit home edition is there any way that i can get my computer to sleep after the programs are done?

Title: computer sleep help
Post by: guestolo on December 01, 2008, 02:28:02 AM

Desktop>>Laptop?
Operating system?

Are you going to post back?

Have you considered disabling Hibernation and Screen Saver options
And just have the monitor shut down after a 5 minute interval?

Title: computer sleep help
Post by: war lord on December 02, 2008, 09:08:53 PM

[quote name=\'guestolo\' post=\'448298\' date=\'Dec 1 2008, 01:28 AM\']Desktop>>Laptop?
Operating system?

Are you going to post back?

Have you considered disabling Hibernation and Screen Saver options
And just have the monitor shut down after a 5 minute interval?[/quote]

If I let my computer run too long the fan starts to make a loud noise it's an old gateway desktop I have to leave the sleep feature on the fan gets too loud

Title: computer sleep help
Post by: guestolo on December 06, 2008, 01:50:43 AM

Quote

it's an old gateway desktop

How old?
What's the spec's of this desktop?
Is it Vista compatible?

Have you checked the advanced settings of the power options and altered the sleep options?

Title: computer sleep help
Post by: newbiz02 on December 19, 2008, 12:32:11 AM

[quote name=\'war lord\' post=\'448515\' date=\'Dec 2 2008, 08:08 PM\']If I let my computer run too long the fan starts to make a loud noise it's an old gateway desktop I have to leave the sleep feature on the fan gets too loud[/quote]

Could it be that you have installed Vista into this poor machine?  Uninstall it ASAP, lol.
Needing that sleep feature on seems to me like a temporary patch for a real overheating problem.
Vista is a resource hog, and it seems your pc wont last very long running it, from the way it sounds.

Either you downgrade to XP or get a new pc, which is much less of a headache than actually trying to troubleshoot this problem, because in my opinion we would have to begin from .. "what are the specs of your motherboard?"  e.t.c.

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