P6X58D Premium No Wake from Sleep

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4x4not

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I'm having a strange issue with my system, and I'm trying to narrow it down to either the motherboard or the power supply. Here are the symptoms:

Turn on machine (from cold) and it boots fine, no issues. Boots into Windows like normal. Everything works great, passes everything I throw at it (P95, IntelBurnTest, etc). The trouble starts when I put the machine to sleep. I hit the sleep "button" on the start menu, box goes to sleep just fine. If I wake it up quickly (say I forgot to check something 10 minutes later) it wake up fine. But overnight something is getting futzed. When I try to wake the machine up, I hear the "click" of the power supply but then nothing. The only way to remedy this is to remove power to the PSU, wait for the motherboard to "discharge" then power it back up. It then comes back up no problems at all.

Anyone have any ideas on what to try?

Specs for those with signatures turned off:
- Asus P6X58D Premium
- Intel Core i7 920 D0 @ 21x175
- G.Skill Ripjaws 6x2GB, 1400 8.8.8.24.2T
- Seasonic X650 power supply
- Intel X25M-G2
- Running Windows 7 Ultimate x64
 
Got the latest BIOS, 703? I'll have to try this out myself, I don't put this rig to sleep.
 
As part of my troubleshooting I set all BIOS settings to default except those needed to boot Windows (AHCI) and the problem persists. Not related to my overclock. Damn you X58 build, why must you curse me so!?
 
heatlesssun said:
Got the latest BIOS, 703? I'll have to try this out myself, I don't put this rig to sleep.
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I'm intending to get this mobo, so I'd like to know if it is a problem in all of them. I'll follow this thread.

Good luck OP on fixing this.
 
I had actually read both those threads but my symptoms are slightly different. The machine APPEARS to go to sleep properly, and if I wake it up within maybe 10-15 minutes it wakes up fine, but overnight is when the issues start.

I may have found another symptom: Last night I shut the system down completely, but left power to the PSU. When I turned it on I noticed only 8GB of memory recognized. I'm thinking "Oh hell no, I thought I got rid of this problem!". Shut down, removed power to the PSU for ~20 seconds, then powered back up. All 12GB recognized, boots perfectly.
 
In addition to the BIOS settings, you have gone into Windows and made sure that the power settings are set to never sleep (for now) ?

And disabled screen savers (for now), etc.???
 
Hmmm interesting. I don't have my computer set to sleep but I might try it tonight and see if I get the same symptoms.

edit:/ is that second symptom after you get the sleep problem? If not, I never had that problem before from a system shut down. Can you replicate the problem with only 3 sticks of ram installed? Just wondering if you may have faulty ram that memtest isn't picking up.
 
I don't have the computer set to automatically sleep, but I like to put the system to sleep at night because it is just wasting electricity otherwise. But now if I can't even turn it off without removing power from the PSU then it becomes completely unacceptable.

I may try removing half the RAM and see if it does the same thing. If I do have a bad stick AGAIN I officially have the worst luck ever with DDR3...
 
Hmmm... so last night I put the system to sleep again and today it woke up just fine. Damn you randomness!!
 
I pulled half the RAM yesterday so I only had 3x2GB. Went to sleep fine, but when I woke the machine up it acted like it was going to power up but I got no video. Hit the restart button and it worked fine. Still seems to be random. Man I hope this is just a slight BIOS quirk and Asus can fix this, because I really like this motherboard...
 
Just noticed Asus has a beta 0808 BIOS out for this board. I might just have to try it out tomorrow...
 
I upgraded to this a couple of days ago. Be careful, its INCOMPATIBLE with any exsisting profiles you have but seems to be working fine otherwise.
 
What do you mean existing profiles? As in the OC profiles saved in BIOS? That shouldn't be a problem, but it is good to know...
 
I don't know if I'm quite ready to call this one fixed, but so far after updating to the 0808 BETA BIOS I have not had this issue in the past 3 days. Fingers crossed!
 
I had a similar sleep issue with my Gigabyte X58A-UD3R, but if I recall correctly, it was a bios option. Windows 7 also had some setting I had to find. I will dig and see what I am currently at and see if I can remember.

I can feel the pain though, I remote to my computer from work a lot, and not being able to wake it on LAN was a real annoyance.
 
Turns out this isn't fixed (of course not!) When I got home from work today, tried to wake from sleep and "click"... nada.
 
I've been reading your thread raybies, and noticed something very interesting: We have basically the same motherboard and PSU. I did NOT have this problem with the Seasonic and my Gigabyte board, so I'm wondering if this is some weird incompatibility between these two products?

Anyone else running a P6X58D and a Seasonic X series PSU?
 
er, fellows, while a lot of boards, especially OCed do have trouble waking from sleep, no one has mentioned their settings in the bios under the Power Management Menu. The settings in windows "talks" to the ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) built into the bios to control sleep and other power down options. You need to make sure the bios options are configured to match what you want windows to do and then check the windows power savings options and wake options for system devices in the hardware manager as well.

I don't run win7 (or even vista) so I cant tell you exactly what you need to do in the OS for power settings and device driver power up/down/suspend/sleep options . But I do recommend you take a look at:

ACPI Support 2.0 normally this is disabled, win 7 supports ver 2.0 and it should be enabled.

I am in no way suggesting this will help your problem, just saying what the proper setting is. You may have already done done this, /shrug.

I am also saying you need to check and experiment with these setting in addition to the settings in the OS but the sad fact is a lot of boards have hosed bios and do not work as intended and the manuf are slow or at a dead stop in fixing them.

The "Repost video" option might help some that appear to wake up but just present a blank screen, or not.

It is a crap shoot to get this stuff working right is all I am trying to say.

Also I am far from an expert on this but ACPI supposedly replaced APM so in the APM sub menu my guess is that all that stuff should be off/disabled. There are good wiki on ACPI and APM that might help.

Bug the crap out of ASUS support and if you get it figured out a nice post back would be great as a lot of people have this issue. My machine is so old and decrepit I cannot write a guide.
 
All good points Bill. I will double check my BIOS and Windows settings, and post them here in a few days. Too busy at work right now to get it until probably Tuesday...
 
I never did get around to writing down all my BIOS and Windows settings, but I did switch the BIOS to "S3 Only" and Enabled "Repost Video". So far I haven't had the problem since (~4 days) but that has happened before... only to spite me once again! I will post back if I still have the problem, or in a week or so if this is truely "cured".
 
Maybe I should stop posting in this thread when the issue seems "fixed", because of course this machine now once again proves me wrong... this morning had the same issue. SHENANIGANS!
 
I have exact same problem, here's my brief specs:

i7 920 @ 3.90Ghz
1000W Coolermaster PSU
12GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 2000 @ 1866Mhz
4 x 2TB Hitachi HDD on RAID 0

Ever since I upgraded bios to 0703, I couldn't get my computer to wake from sleep, even tried with default settings in BIOS. I figure this should not be overclock problem, I guess it has something to do with 12GB ram. I do not see many people have this problem either. When I google about this issue, it seems very few people have this problem and leads to nowhere.
 
I have this problem as well. What I've done as a workaround for now, however, is simply gone with the "Balanced" setting in Windows 7 and "Never" putting the PC to sleep. My "Turn Off Hard Disk" setting is set to "Never" as well as the "Sleep After" and "Hibernate" options.

I have bios 0703, which is what my P6X58D came with. I've had it about six weeks now in this new build of mine. It's not ideal but at least it's less concern about having to hard boot the machine several times after a hibernation/death.

Ed Lin
 
I had a problem similar to what was described in this thread. Damn-near gave me a heart attack this-morning when it wouldn't POST!

Pressing the power button would light the board/fans for 1 second, then die. Then, every 5 seconds, it would 'pulse' with about 0.2 secs of power. It seemed dead!

Switching PSUs didn't help, either. I was about to call it a day, when I cleared the CMOS. Then it booted without issue.

That's when I discovered the PC was in hibernation mode. (edit: Win7)

This is a P6X58D-E board, with i7 930 clocked at 4GHz. 12GB gSkill 1600MHz RAM.
 
Screwball idea. Go into your Network Adapter settings in the Device Manager and on the Power Management tab, uncheck the box for "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power".
 
sovereignty68 said:
guess we all have to wait for asus to fix this 12GB ram+sleep bug.
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I pulled 6GB of my RAM and got the same problem, so I don't think it is a memory issue.

Only did this once for me in the past week (this morning). The only thing I noted was last night I put the system to sleep, but needed to check something about a half hour later and woke it up. Turned on fine, put it back to sleep. Did the "click-nothing" this morning. It's like if the machine isn't on for long enough the symptoms repeat. Weird...
 
I just wanted to help out some, I have this issue too so I know how bad it is (I hate having to shut down :( Anyway Im not sure if this is the fix we all need, I just tried it yesterday and it goes to and out of sleep like a charm. Its only been 2 days so it might just be a fluke. All I did was disable the hybrid sleep option in windows, under advanced power options, found in power options(does that make sense, lol), not really sure what its for so I didn't mind disabling it :D
and now for the first time ever sleep works!!! :D

Good luck
 
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havoc_479 said:
All I did was disable the hybrid sleep option in windows, under advanced power options, found in power options(does that make sense, lol), not really sure what its for so I didn't mind disabling it :D
and now for the first time ever sleep works!!!
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This is what I was about to suggest. Turn OFF hybrid sleep, and just use standard sleep and hibernate.

Let the computer then sleep, then hibernate. Leave overnight. Try turning computer back on in the morning and see if it works.

FYI, I'm not sure if you're supposed to adjust the ACPI 2.0+ setting in BIOS after you install Windows, but maybe it doesn't make a difference. I ALWAYS set it to enabled BEFORE I install Windows. In addition, I always set the sleep mode to S3 ONLY; if you don't, you won't get STR (that's what S3 is anyway).

So bottom line? Make sure your BIOS settings for ACPI 2.0 is enabled and sleep mode set to S3 ONLY. Disable hybrid sleep. Test and see if it works.
 
This solution didn't work for me. I frankly believe it's a motherboard issue that needs a fix in the bios. Looking all over the web as well as the Asus support site, no one seems to have come to any real conclusion.

As I posted earlier in this thread, I simply have my "Turn Off Hard Disk" setting set to "Never" as well as the "Sleep After" and "Hibernate" options. Until there's a fix...

Ed Lin
 
I just recently attempted to upgrade my PSU from a Corsair 650 Watt PSU to the 850 Watt PSU. I have been experiencing this issue and so far no changing of BIOS settings seems to fix it. I had sent the PSU back to Corsair thinking there was something wrong. That was apparently a waste of the $20 it cost me to ship it. The new one experiences random PSU clicks when powering up from sleep randomly. Its not frequent but it is still annoying enough.

Did anyone find a brand of PSU known to work better with this motherboard?
 
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