computer help request

[Simon Pieman]

Ah crap, I'm too tired it seems. I won't go to the trouble of trying to fix that file, the more I think of it, the more I don't think it'll work.

I'd have a look at your BIOS options and see if you can change anything in there. I reckon one of your windows updates (SP3?) has thrown something out.

[Arriba]

thanks anyway si.appreciated

[Samdy Gray]

Sounds like it is coming out of standy but it's not powering the monitor on. Is your graphics card using the latest drivers?

[ronnie21]

Is it not posssible for Si to do remote assistance, or is the computer not getting that far?

[Simon Pieman]

Sounds like it is coming out of standy but it's not powering the monitor on. Is your graphics card using the latest drivers?

Yep that's another possibility.

Given it will switch on the fans when you move the mouse I think it's safe to rule that one out anyway.

[Peter Venkman]

Another tip to try Arriba is...

Go to your control panel and open your "power options"
click on the "advanced" tab
ensure the "prompt for password when computer resumes from standby" choice is unchecked

I have had this problem with PC's in the past and it has been due to a corrupt Virtual Memory (something that a system restore wont fix).

Go into control panel
System
Advanced
Performance - Settings
then click on the advanced tab
Virtual Memory - set that to no pagefile

Then reboot

then when its rebooted put the pagefile back again set it to 2048 or system manage.

See what happens then, also a very good 15 day trial software that will check out your whole system...... http://www.iolo.com/downloads.aspx system mechanic pro, I use it regularly it will check your whole system out for problems.

 

[Arriba]

will give that a go jj.top man!

[Arriba]

got to the reboot stage.nowget virtual memory warning and cannot get it going now? howcan i go back? im doing this on my sons psp

[Simon Pieman]

Can you get into windows?

[Arriba]

to the start up.click on user name then it does nowt

[Simon Pieman]

Restart the machine and tap F8 until you get the startup menu up. Run it in safe mode and it should work.

[Arriba]

cheers si.got it going, now back to square 1.

[Peter Venkman]

Sorry it didnt help mate, did you disable the password on when computer resumes from standby.

Otherwise its a problem I have never come accross in 20 years of fixing PC's!

If you do find the answer let me know so I know what to do if it ever happens to me

[Simon Pieman]

I think Sam's mention of the graphics driver may be the problem. I had this exact problem with my pc but I can't remember how I fixed it. There's so many causes. I'm now starting to wonder if a reinstall of my graphics driver fixed the problem as I was having other issues with it at the time.

Arriba, if you go to start>run and type in DXDIAG and click ok and then select the display tab.

Tell me that the name of the device is (top left box) and also the version of the driver (top right box). I can then find the link for you to download and install the manufacturers driver and hopefully it will solve the problem.

[Arriba]

 device-SiS  driver-SiSGRV.dll.

have not tried the bios thing yet so if this fails will give that a go.