Power save mode

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by tennbiker, May 16, 2007.

  1. tennbiker

    tennbiker Private E-2

    My 4 year old home made computer, has started going into a "power save mode" while bringing up Windows XP. Started about a month ago, but I could turn off and on and if I could call up a program fast enough, It would not do the powersave thing. I have done restores to no avail. Yesterday, I did a format on my hard drive and started from scratch. Worked great for about 6 hours then started the powersave again. However, now it goes to sleep before Windows has fully started.Any ideas where to start looking?? Hardware or software??? Maybe I should state. its my monitor that goes into powersave mode. (black)
     
    tennbiker, May 16, 2007
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  2. musksnipe

    musksnipe Guest

    Can you get it to load into safe mode? Possibly could change power settings, if that is the problem.
     
    musksnipe, May 16, 2007
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  3. tennbiker

    tennbiker Private E-2

    Yes, I can get into "safe mode" but same ressults....
     
    tennbiker, May 16, 2007
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  4. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    If you have a PCI, AGP or PCI-E graphic card and not onboard GFX, then re-seat your card as last time I came across this on 3 PCs it it was graphic card issues 1 re-seat and 2 needed replacing ( Dells suprisingly )

    SO also to test, if you have spare GFX card use that too to troubleshoot the graphic card as the issue and rule it in or out as cause.
     
    DavidGP, May 16, 2007
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