computer won't wake up

control_tower_here

ok my computer shuts down sometimes, someitmes when iam surfing the internet, or sometimes when iam not even doing anything and i leave it for a sec and it shuts down. iam on a pc. the hard drive power light button thing turns yellow instead of green and my screen turns black, the screen power button turns yellow also. when i move the mosue or press buttons on my keyboard..nothing happens it just stays black. i pressed the 1st button on the 4 little button on the screen, and a message comes up saying when in power save mode press computer power button ot move mosue or press a button on the keyboard. i do it but it still doesnt start up. so i end up having to shut it (by pullin the pug) and turning it back on. i did a virus scan but it didnt have anyhting. i have mcafee security center.


some info to add about my comuter:
Dell Dimension DXC051
Intel (R)
Penium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz
2.79 GHz, 0.99 GB of Ram

banger9365

sounds like the psu or ram is on it's way out , it only dos it after a few hours of us and them it starts doing it yes and then very time you leave it

richyrichuk

ok we need full pc specs! and what watts ur PSU is please aswel

sco0ter

go to your control panel (start/settings/control panel) and select power options. Check what your settings are.. You will also have an option for the computer never to go into standby.. Try this and see if it helps.

buyitall

I posted a similar question here a few weeks ago. Although I have not been able to solve the problem of waking the pc up once it has gone into standby or whatever (it continued to happen even though I had selected 'never' in sleep/standby/hibernation power options), when I unchecked 'enable hibernation', it does stay on indefinitely until I shut down, so has solved the problem to a certain extent. Hope that makes sense!