Recent content by Dopeski

I took the motherboard back to the PC store I bought it from and after testing it with a new CPU they told me that it works just fine. His guess is that it's a Vista 64 bit Sleep issue. He told me about certain Vista PC's being very finicky when there is 4+ gigs of ram installed. He also told me...

Hmm, I guess I'll go return it today then. Hopefully they test it and find that it's the board. I don't want to have to buy a new CPU, arg!

Hmm, strange. How can I check if my motherboard is set to s3 or s4 power mode?

I had no idea a PC could get stuck in sleep mode. I'll try removing the CMOS battery with the PSU unplugged from the motherboard and I'll see if that works.

Hey, I've been a long time lurker and I've managed to fix all my PC problems by lurking on these boards. Now I've finally ran into a problem I can't seem to find a fix for. My Situation: I put my new-ish computer to Sleep for the first time last night and it didn't shut down completely...