An Odd Wake From Sleep Problem...

Horizon_Brave · 2015-11-21 19:44:52

Hey everyone, I may already know the answer to this question, but I look to you all for perhaps a confirmation. I built my PC and and supplied it with a 600w Powersupply. I have a mid range MSI graphics card attached, and a bunch of USB devices plugged in (keyboard, mouse, dvd burner), and two SATA hard drives plugged in. The motherboard I have is MSI

My Graphics Card
My Mobo

So the problem is that whenever I put my computer into sleep mode, and then go to restart it from sleep, it does this really weird "triple" wakeup up attempt. What I mean is I heard the fans, and hard drive rev up for a second. then it shuts back down. Then there's a 2 second pause of nothing. Then it attempts to power on again, fans spin, then shuts down....Finally ALWAYS on the third attempt, the computer boots fine, fans comes on, hard drives spin up, and all is merry.

This isn't really a horrible issue, but it's just odd...and a bit concerning... Considering I hear the hard drives spin up, then shut down abrubtly, I just hope no long term damage to the drive is being done....I sleep my computer quiet often...

And that's the other thing, when I shut it down completely, and cold boot, it boots fine! Never had an issue.. Any thoughts on this?

Horizon_Brave · 2015-11-23 20:50:15

Timing could not have been better (worse.) on this. Seriously, after almost a year of this behaviour, with not other side effects, the DAY that I make my original posting about this... my hard drive apparently gives up the ghost.

This is what happened, I woke my computer up from sleep mode (as described above) and it does the same tripe rolling boot thing. (heard the motherboard boot once, then cuts off. Hear it boot again, cuts off a 2nd time...finally, as always, it boots properly the third time. This time though, I'm met with a black screen. No OS. To make a very long story short, my hard drive somehow... lost it's partitioning scheme. I run Windows 10 as host, and I do my Bunsenlabs in VM's.

The Windows 10 partition was found because when I booted, the Windows spinning dots loading screen would appear, but then the screen would just go black. Anyway I my first thought was to run a chkdisk, so I loaded up the windows 10 repair disk. It "passed", claiming no issues where present... I then ran through their canned tools and solutions...until I had to resort to restoring from a back up restore point. The first time I did tried this, it didn't work. It said it couldn't apply the backup. So I had to do a re-format/repartition of the drive, THEN apply the back up...That finally worked.

Anyway so to get back to the main topic that i created...I going to attempt later tonight (after I backup the hell out of all my files) to see if the sleep/multiple boot attempts is still there and gather some windows logs after the event. (though I don't know if Windows would be gather logs immediately being woken from sleep?)

#1 2015-11-21 19:44:52

An Odd Wake From Sleep Problem...

#2 2015-11-23 20:50:15

Re: An Odd Wake From Sleep Problem...

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