Darknexxus
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Welcome back to me! Been quite some time since I've visited this site. I've learned a lot since then, and most things I can diagnose on my own but this one has me stumped.
I bought a dell optiflex 755 refurbished from TigerDirect, It came with a copy of Windows7 for refurbs. Setup it for my daughter and it ran great for months. My daughter eventually opted to go for a netbook and her old pc got handed down to my son for him to play games on. I reformatted the entire computer and started fresh for him. I used the drivers from Dell for the hardware, allowed Windows update to install it's stuff. Today I updated the bios from A09 to A22. It was out of date
Okay, that's the back history. Today, my son can be watching a video on youtube, playing a game installed on his pc, or a flash game on the web, and without warning, the monitors display a message about going to sleep, both go dark. Initially I thought the computer was going to sleep, but there is no blinking light on the front. It stays solid green. Shaking the mouse, hitting any key on the keyboard does nothing. Turning the monitors on and off, does nothing. I use VNC to connect to the computers in the house, and when his goes down, I cannot connect to it over the network. Today I hooked up a usb keyboard to it, no lights would come on, no key would do anything while in this state. The only way to get out of this mode is power the machine off and back on. Each time you see the "Windows did not shut down normally" menu. Cpu fan is clean of dust, same with the power supply and the video card (pci express sparkle 1gb dual DVI output (hooking the monitor to the on board adapter didn't help). All plugs and memory are tight and seated properly.
Memory size is 4gb
Windows 7 32bit
3 Sata drives 2x240gb 1x640gb
I've googled and tested everything I could find to no avail. I should also point out that all power saving option are disabled This computer should not sleep, ever, but that's the behaviour type. And it seems that the network and usb ports shut down with it.
So.. anyone got the fix?
I bought a dell optiflex 755 refurbished from TigerDirect, It came with a copy of Windows7 for refurbs. Setup it for my daughter and it ran great for months. My daughter eventually opted to go for a netbook and her old pc got handed down to my son for him to play games on. I reformatted the entire computer and started fresh for him. I used the drivers from Dell for the hardware, allowed Windows update to install it's stuff. Today I updated the bios from A09 to A22. It was out of date
Okay, that's the back history. Today, my son can be watching a video on youtube, playing a game installed on his pc, or a flash game on the web, and without warning, the monitors display a message about going to sleep, both go dark. Initially I thought the computer was going to sleep, but there is no blinking light on the front. It stays solid green. Shaking the mouse, hitting any key on the keyboard does nothing. Turning the monitors on and off, does nothing. I use VNC to connect to the computers in the house, and when his goes down, I cannot connect to it over the network. Today I hooked up a usb keyboard to it, no lights would come on, no key would do anything while in this state. The only way to get out of this mode is power the machine off and back on. Each time you see the "Windows did not shut down normally" menu. Cpu fan is clean of dust, same with the power supply and the video card (pci express sparkle 1gb dual DVI output (hooking the monitor to the on board adapter didn't help). All plugs and memory are tight and seated properly.
Memory size is 4gb
Windows 7 32bit
3 Sata drives 2x240gb 1x640gb
I've googled and tested everything I could find to no avail. I should also point out that all power saving option are disabled This computer should not sleep, ever, but that's the behaviour type. And it seems that the network and usb ports shut down with it.
So.. anyone got the fix?