Deep Sleep

Question

When the screen saver has been on for a while it and the computer go into a very 'deep sleep'. Neither a wiggle of the mouse or a tap on the keys will wake up the sleeping beast. I cannot even turn off the beast at the off button but have to resort to turning off at the mains, then switching on the mains again to wake up the sleeping beast - help its driving me crazy!

KayH · Answer

Hi,Try two things: first, go to My Computer | Control Panel | Power Management and set your Standby feature to Never, if this has not already been done. Use only the powerdown features for your monitor and hard drive. Secondly, either disable your screensaver altogether or choose a simple, non-3D screensaver and see if doing either or both of these things will help you.Standby was developed for the purpose of preserving battery power in laptops, but it did not port well to desktop systems. It causes trouble like the lockups you've been experiencing. Complex screensavers, especially if they have a memory leak, can eat your memory up, again resulting in a lockup.Hope this helps--good luck,Kay

Mav · Answer

Thanks for that Kay. I don't have a screen saver, the screen just goes blank/black. I think they are a waste of memory space as some , as you say, take up large quantities of memory for no real gain! I have altered the Standby feature to 'Never' and will wait to see what the beast does!

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