computer sleep help

[war lord]

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?

[guestolo]

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?

[war lord]

[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

[guestolo]

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?

[newbiz02]

[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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