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Sleep mode
Name: Mike42 Date: March 29, 2005 at 04:10:03 Pacific OS: WIN XP HOME SP2 CPU/Ram: 3.4GHz 1Gb RAM
Comment:
My PC goes into sleep mode or hangs whenever I play any game (doom,halflife etc)..I am unable to re-awake the PC and have to reboot. This happens after about 5 mins of starting the game. I have a Geforce FX5500 graphics card (256Mb)with the latest drivers both for sound and graphics. The power options in control panel are set NOT to hibernate or power down ...can anyone help ?
Name: jefro Date: March 29, 2005 at 10:49:46 Pacific
Reply:
See event viewer for clues.
I think you are in a crash not a sleep. Driver or memory leak issue is my guess.
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Response Number 2
Name: Mike42 Date: March 29, 2005 at 23:18:01 Pacific
Reply:
The event viewer just shows that CTRL ALT DEL has been pressed..this could be the program generating that report or it could be me when the system hangs and I reboot...nothing else is shown in the event viewer..the screen either freezes or I get the display showing "entering sleep mode"..the CDROM runs up for a few seconds before the system hangs
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