I have a Packard Bell iMedia from a few years back, which i now let my (young) daughters use. It originally had Vista so a few years back I put XP on it, and most recently Win7 x64. Specs Windows 7 64Bit Core 2 4300 CPU 4GB RAM NVIDIA GeForce 7500LE(Included when purchased) 2x500GB HDDs … Read more
I have my laptop set to warn me when the battery is at 25% and got to hybrid sleep at 15%. Well, I must have been extremely focussed on what I was working on because I didn’t see the warning bubbles and suddenly lost power and some amount of work. Is there a way to … Read more
I just came home from school and turned on my computer from sleep mode, and this showed up Yesterday I had to put my laptop on sleep mode on battery for the night, because I had to charge my phone, if that matters. I plugged it back in as I woke up. What’s the problem? … Read more
After my computer woke up from sleeping, my three USB ports stopped working. Windows 7 wouldn’t recognize them anymore. On the rare occasion that they show up in Device Manager, it shows a yellow exclamation symbol next to that USB port. I’ve followed every troubleshooting step here, but to no avail. I’ve looked at other … Read more
I have been trying a few things trying to get this to work, I’ve enabled wake on lan within the bios settings, reserved an ip address, using the correct mac address and and at best it works sometimes. I thought it was in power saving mode and disconnecting from the network when in sleep mode … Read more
It is a new build, when I turn on the computer, the CPU fans, case fans, LED, power button all turn on normally. However, there are no bio screen, monitor does not “wake up”, the keyboard won’t light up when I hit caps/num lock. Even the reset button won’t work. Sometime after a few restart … Read more
I have Win7 on Asus p8Z77 MB, recently I’ve noticed that by having the hibernate turned on, it keeps eating away the storage capacity in my C drive by like 10G+ (OS drive), so I decided to turn the hibernate off using ” powercfg.exe /hibernate off ” in CMD. Then something interesting happens: After hibernation … Read more
I’m having issues with my new SanDisk Ultra II 960GB SSD in Asus Q550LF laptop running Windows 10: laptop keeps resetting after being woken up from sleep. Looking in Windows event log, sleep event is actually missing. This event was logged while I used HDD which came originally with the laptop. I installed SanDisk SSD … Read more
Sometimes I get flicker on my screen. It only happens, when I wake my computer from sleep. I can’t do anything and is left with no other option than to restart, or turn off my computer, as it persist. I have uploaded a short video, which shows my problem. Please pay attention to the monitor … Read more
I recently purchased Xerox Phaser 6020 (it has the latest firmware) it goes to sleep after the default setting time and then most (but not all) times cannot be woken to print at all, or by pressing any of the buttons on the unit. You’d need to hit the power switch and wait for the … Read more
