Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
is running - green led, fan noise, etc. 

The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.

None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
hammering, monitor power off and on again

What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
so drastic?

-- 
Gertie. 

Award-winning bog cleaner, Latin scholar and beer festival organiser.
Veni, vidi, Vici iiabui et cervaca, or summat like that 
reply-to address works but not to html mail, hotmail or aol addresses


When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?

Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to another.
Would be very grateful for a cure.

-- 
Ellie

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?

Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to another.
Would be very grateful for a cure.

-- 
Ellie

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?

Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to another.
Would be very grateful for a cure.

-- 
Ellie

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?

Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to another.
Would be very grateful for a cure.

-- 
Ellie

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?

Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to another.
Would be very grateful for a cure.

-- 
Ellie

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?

Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to another.
Would be very grateful for a cure.

-- 
Ellie

In article , Ellie 
wrote:

> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
> message news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
> >
> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
> >
> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
> >
> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
> > something so drastic?

> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.


anyone?

lots of experts used to reside here ....

-- 
Gertie. 

Award-winning bog cleaner, Latin scholar and beer festival organiser.
Veni, vidi, Vici iiabui et cervaca, or summat like that 
reply-to address works but not to html mail, hotmail or aol addresses


Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> In article , Ellie 
> wrote:
>
>> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
>> message news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
>> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
>> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>> >
>> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
>> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>> >
>> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
>> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>> >
>> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
>> > something so drastic?
>
>> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
>> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>
>
> anyone?
>
> lots of experts used to reside here ....

We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!

-- 
Ellie

gertie@grumbles burbled:


>anyone?

Open sauce?

>lots of experts used to reside here ....

-- 
Sheel          (Change me to me2 to email.)

So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." 
I said "No, just a watch."

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?
>
> -- 
> Gertie.
>
> Award-winning bog cleaner, Latin scholar and beer festival organiser.
> Veni, vidi, Vici iiabui et cervaca, or summat like that
> reply-to address works but not to html mail, hotmail or aol addresses
>
>
> When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Can't you just press the power button instead of holding it down. Don't like 
any of my pcs going into stand by because of this.

On 8 May, 22:34, "Ellie"  wrote:
> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message
>
> news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>
> > In article , Ellie 
> > wrote:
>
> >> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
> >> messagenews:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> >> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> >> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
> >> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> >> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> >> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> >> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
> >> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> >> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
> >> > something so drastic?
>
> >> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
> >> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>
> > anyone?
>
> > lots of experts used to reside here ....
>
> We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!

Or perhaps some of us thought we would give others a chance to answer.

This could be a number of problems ...

Here is an idea of some of the things I have seen cause it and what
was done to get round it.

1 - Graphics Driver: make sure you have the latest graphics drivers. I
have previously had issues with Nvidia and ATI drivers that had issues
with waking the card up after power management set the display to go
to sleep.

2 - Windows Updates: Check how you have your automatic updates
scheduled. Set it to download the update in the background ask you to
patch it. This was spotted when there were a large number of Office
updates (about 4 months ago but it could be longer) and it was trying
to do the install in the background.

3 - Certain AV Products: Norton killed my wife's machine time after
time ... eventually I uninstall it ... then had to do a clean build of
XP because it just would not come of the machine properly. I put
Grisoft AVG Free on to start with ... and eventually moved to F-Secure
with no complaints

4 - Drives not waking up: In the power management make sure your
drives are not set to go to sleep.

5 - 3rd party screen saver: Just plain nasty ... including a few of
the BBC ones.

6 - Overheating processor: Reapplied the paste and it was happy

Once you have rebooted the machine have a look in the event viewer to
see if it has moaned about anyhting in particular.
Boot into safe mode and leave it running to see if it still hangs.
Once back in normal mode check to see if there are any proccesses that
seem to take a lot of memory or processor.

I know ... lots more questions and ideas, but hopefully it might help
to narrow down the problem.

HTH

Tony

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?

Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to another.
Would be very grateful for a cure.

-- 
Ellie

In article , Ellie 
wrote:

> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
> message news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
> >
> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
> >
> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
> >
> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
> > something so drastic?

> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.


anyone?

lots of experts used to reside here ....

-- 
Gertie. 

Award-winning bog cleaner, Latin scholar and beer festival organiser.
Veni, vidi, Vici iiabui et cervaca, or summat like that 
reply-to address works but not to html mail, hotmail or aol addresses


Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> In article , Ellie 
> wrote:
>
>> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
>> message news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
>> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
>> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>> >
>> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
>> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>> >
>> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
>> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>> >
>> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
>> > something so drastic?
>
>> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
>> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>
>
> anyone?
>
> lots of experts used to reside here ....

We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!

-- 
Ellie

gertie@grumbles burbled:


>anyone?

Open sauce?

>lots of experts used to reside here ....

-- 
Sheel          (Change me to me2 to email.)

So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." 
I said "No, just a watch."

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?
>
> -- 
> Gertie.
>
> Award-winning bog cleaner, Latin scholar and beer festival organiser.
> Veni, vidi, Vici iiabui et cervaca, or summat like that
> reply-to address works but not to html mail, hotmail or aol addresses
>
>
> When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Can't you just press the power button instead of holding it down. Don't like 
any of my pcs going into stand by because of this.

On 8 May, 22:34, "Ellie"  wrote:
> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message
>
> news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>
> > In article , Ellie 
> > wrote:
>
> >> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
> >> messagenews:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> >> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> >> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
> >> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> >> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> >> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> >> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
> >> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> >> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
> >> > something so drastic?
>
> >> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
> >> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>
> > anyone?
>
> > lots of experts used to reside here ....
>
> We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!

Or perhaps some of us thought we would give others a chance to answer.

This could be a number of problems ...

Here is an idea of some of the things I have seen cause it and what
was done to get round it.

1 - Graphics Driver: make sure you have the latest graphics drivers. I
have previously had issues with Nvidia and ATI drivers that had issues
with waking the card up after power management set the display to go
to sleep.

2 - Windows Updates: Check how you have your automatic updates
scheduled. Set it to download the update in the background ask you to
patch it. This was spotted when there were a large number of Office
updates (about 4 months ago but it could be longer) and it was trying
to do the install in the background.

3 - Certain AV Products: Norton killed my wife's machine time after
time ... eventually I uninstall it ... then had to do a clean build of
XP because it just would not come of the machine properly. I put
Grisoft AVG Free on to start with ... and eventually moved to F-Secure
with no complaints

4 - Drives not waking up: In the power management make sure your
drives are not set to go to sleep.

5 - 3rd party screen saver: Just plain nasty ... including a few of
the BBC ones.

6 - Overheating processor: Reapplied the paste and it was happy

Once you have rebooted the machine have a look in the event viewer to
see if it has moaned about anyhting in particular.
Boot into safe mode and leave it running to see if it still hangs.
Once back in normal mode check to see if there are any proccesses that
seem to take a lot of memory or processor.

I know ... lots more questions and ideas, but hopefully it might help
to narrow down the problem.

HTH

Tony

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?

Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to another.
Would be very grateful for a cure.

-- 
Ellie

In article , Ellie 
wrote:

> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
> message news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
> >
> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
> >
> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
> >
> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
> > something so drastic?

> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.


anyone?

lots of experts used to reside here ....

-- 
Gertie. 

Award-winning bog cleaner, Latin scholar and beer festival organiser.
Veni, vidi, Vici iiabui et cervaca, or summat like that 
reply-to address works but not to html mail, hotmail or aol addresses


Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> In article , Ellie 
> wrote:
>
>> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
>> message news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
>> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
>> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>> >
>> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
>> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>> >
>> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
>> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>> >
>> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
>> > something so drastic?
>
>> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
>> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>
>
> anyone?
>
> lots of experts used to reside here ....

We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!

-- 
Ellie

gertie@grumbles burbled:


>anyone?

Open sauce?

>lots of experts used to reside here ....

-- 
Sheel          (Change me to me2 to email.)

So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." 
I said "No, just a watch."

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?
>
> -- 
> Gertie.
>
> Award-winning bog cleaner, Latin scholar and beer festival organiser.
> Veni, vidi, Vici iiabui et cervaca, or summat like that
> reply-to address works but not to html mail, hotmail or aol addresses
>
>
> When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Can't you just press the power button instead of holding it down. Don't like 
any of my pcs going into stand by because of this.

On 8 May, 22:34, "Ellie"  wrote:
> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message
>
> news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>
> > In article , Ellie 
> > wrote:
>
> >> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
> >> messagenews:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> >> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> >> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
> >> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> >> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> >> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> >> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
> >> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> >> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
> >> > something so drastic?
>
> >> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
> >> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>
> > anyone?
>
> > lots of experts used to reside here ....
>
> We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!

Or perhaps some of us thought we would give others a chance to answer.

This could be a number of problems ...

Here is an idea of some of the things I have seen cause it and what
was done to get round it.

1 - Graphics Driver: make sure you have the latest graphics drivers. I
have previously had issues with Nvidia and ATI drivers that had issues
with waking the card up after power management set the display to go
to sleep.

2 - Windows Updates: Check how you have your automatic updates
scheduled. Set it to download the update in the background ask you to
patch it. This was spotted when there were a large number of Office
updates (about 4 months ago but it could be longer) and it was trying
to do the install in the background.

3 - Certain AV Products: Norton killed my wife's machine time after
time ... eventually I uninstall it ... then had to do a clean build of
XP because it just would not come of the machine properly. I put
Grisoft AVG Free on to start with ... and eventually moved to F-Secure
with no complaints

4 - Drives not waking up: In the power management make sure your
drives are not set to go to sleep.

5 - 3rd party screen saver: Just plain nasty ... including a few of
the BBC ones.

6 - Overheating processor: Reapplied the paste and it was happy

Once you have rebooted the machine have a look in the event viewer to
see if it has moaned about anyhting in particular.
Boot into safe mode and leave it running to see if it still hangs.
Once back in normal mode check to see if there are any proccesses that
seem to take a lot of memory or processor.

I know ... lots more questions and ideas, but hopefully it might help
to narrow down the problem.

HTH

Tony

"GrumbleDook"  wrote in message 
news:1178666757.879044.238000@y5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> On 8 May, 22:34, "Ellie"  wrote:
>> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message
>>
>> news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>>
>> > In article , Ellie 
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
>> >> messagenews:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>> >> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
>> >> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
>> >> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>>
>> >> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
>> >> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>>
>> >> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
>> >> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>>
>> >> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
>> >> > something so drastic?
>>
>> >> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
>> >> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>>
>> > anyone?
>>
>> > lots of experts used to reside here ....
>>
>> We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!
>
> Or perhaps some of us thought we would give others a chance to answer.

First time for everything!
:o)
>
> This could be a number of problems ...
>
> Here is an idea of some of the things I have seen cause it and what
> was done to get round it.
>
> 1 - Graphics Driver: make sure you have the latest graphics drivers. I
> have previously had issues with Nvidia and ATI drivers that had issues
> with waking the card up after power management set the display to go
> to sleep.

That could be it as I have had some problems with the graphics in a couple 
of games.

Thanks Tony.

-- 
Ellie

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?

Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to another.
Would be very grateful for a cure.

-- 
Ellie

In article , Ellie 
wrote:

> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
> message news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
> >
> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
> >
> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
> >
> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
> > something so drastic?

> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.


anyone?

lots of experts used to reside here ....

-- 
Gertie. 

Award-winning bog cleaner, Latin scholar and beer festival organiser.
Veni, vidi, Vici iiabui et cervaca, or summat like that 
reply-to address works but not to html mail, hotmail or aol addresses


Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> In article , Ellie 
> wrote:
>
>> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
>> message news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
>> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
>> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>> >
>> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
>> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>> >
>> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
>> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>> >
>> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
>> > something so drastic?
>
>> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
>> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>
>
> anyone?
>
> lots of experts used to reside here ....

We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!

-- 
Ellie

gertie@grumbles burbled:


>anyone?

Open sauce?

>lots of experts used to reside here ....

-- 
Sheel          (Change me to me2 to email.)

So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." 
I said "No, just a watch."

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?
>
> -- 
> Gertie.
>
> Award-winning bog cleaner, Latin scholar and beer festival organiser.
> Veni, vidi, Vici iiabui et cervaca, or summat like that
> reply-to address works but not to html mail, hotmail or aol addresses
>
>
> When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Can't you just press the power button instead of holding it down. Don't like 
any of my pcs going into stand by because of this.

On 8 May, 22:34, "Ellie"  wrote:
> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message
>
> news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>
> > In article , Ellie 
> > wrote:
>
> >> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
> >> messagenews:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> >> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> >> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
> >> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> >> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> >> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> >> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
> >> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> >> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
> >> > something so drastic?
>
> >> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
> >> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>
> > anyone?
>
> > lots of experts used to reside here ....
>
> We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!

Or perhaps some of us thought we would give others a chance to answer.

This could be a number of problems ...

Here is an idea of some of the things I have seen cause it and what
was done to get round it.

1 - Graphics Driver: make sure you have the latest graphics drivers. I
have previously had issues with Nvidia and ATI drivers that had issues
with waking the card up after power management set the display to go
to sleep.

2 - Windows Updates: Check how you have your automatic updates
scheduled. Set it to download the update in the background ask you to
patch it. This was spotted when there were a large number of Office
updates (about 4 months ago but it could be longer) and it was trying
to do the install in the background.

3 - Certain AV Products: Norton killed my wife's machine time after
time ... eventually I uninstall it ... then had to do a clean build of
XP because it just would not come of the machine properly. I put
Grisoft AVG Free on to start with ... and eventually moved to F-Secure
with no complaints

4 - Drives not waking up: In the power management make sure your
drives are not set to go to sleep.

5 - 3rd party screen saver: Just plain nasty ... including a few of
the BBC ones.

6 - Overheating processor: Reapplied the paste and it was happy

Once you have rebooted the machine have a look in the event viewer to
see if it has moaned about anyhting in particular.
Boot into safe mode and leave it running to see if it still hangs.
Once back in normal mode check to see if there are any proccesses that
seem to take a lot of memory or processor.

I know ... lots more questions and ideas, but hopefully it might help
to narrow down the problem.

HTH

Tony

"GrumbleDook"  wrote in message 
news:1178666757.879044.238000@y5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> On 8 May, 22:34, "Ellie"  wrote:
>> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message
>>
>> news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>>
>> > In article , Ellie 
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
>> >> messagenews:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>> >> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
>> >> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
>> >> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>>
>> >> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
>> >> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>>
>> >> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
>> >> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>>
>> >> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
>> >> > something so drastic?
>>
>> >> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
>> >> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>>
>> > anyone?
>>
>> > lots of experts used to reside here ....
>>
>> We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!
>
> Or perhaps some of us thought we would give others a chance to answer.

First time for everything!
:o)
>
> This could be a number of problems ...
>
> Here is an idea of some of the things I have seen cause it and what
> was done to get round it.
>
> 1 - Graphics Driver: make sure you have the latest graphics drivers. I
> have previously had issues with Nvidia and ATI drivers that had issues
> with waking the card up after power management set the display to go
> to sleep.

That could be it as I have had some problems with the graphics in a couple 
of games.

Thanks Tony.

-- 
Ellie

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?

Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to another.
Would be very grateful for a cure.

-- 
Ellie

In article , Ellie 
wrote:

> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
> message news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
> >
> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
> >
> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
> >
> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
> > something so drastic?

> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.


anyone?

lots of experts used to reside here ....

-- 
Gertie. 

Award-winning bog cleaner, Latin scholar and beer festival organiser.
Veni, vidi, Vici iiabui et cervaca, or summat like that 
reply-to address works but not to html mail, hotmail or aol addresses


Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> In article , Ellie 
> wrote:
>
>> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
>> message news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
>> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
>> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>> >
>> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
>> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>> >
>> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
>> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>> >
>> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
>> > something so drastic?
>
>> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
>> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>
>
> anyone?
>
> lots of experts used to reside here ....

We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!

-- 
Ellie

gertie@grumbles burbled:


>anyone?

Open sauce?

>lots of experts used to reside here ....

-- 
Sheel          (Change me to me2 to email.)

So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." 
I said "No, just a watch."

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?
>
> -- 
> Gertie.
>
> Award-winning bog cleaner, Latin scholar and beer festival organiser.
> Veni, vidi, Vici iiabui et cervaca, or summat like that
> reply-to address works but not to html mail, hotmail or aol addresses
>
>
> When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Can't you just press the power button instead of holding it down. Don't like 
any of my pcs going into stand by because of this.

On 8 May, 22:34, "Ellie"  wrote:
> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message
>
> news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>
> > In article , Ellie 
> > wrote:
>
> >> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
> >> messagenews:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> >> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> >> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
> >> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> >> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> >> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> >> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
> >> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> >> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
> >> > something so drastic?
>
> >> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
> >> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>
> > anyone?
>
> > lots of experts used to reside here ....
>
> We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!

Or perhaps some of us thought we would give others a chance to answer.

This could be a number of problems ...

Here is an idea of some of the things I have seen cause it and what
was done to get round it.

1 - Graphics Driver: make sure you have the latest graphics drivers. I
have previously had issues with Nvidia and ATI drivers that had issues
with waking the card up after power management set the display to go
to sleep.

2 - Windows Updates: Check how you have your automatic updates
scheduled. Set it to download the update in the background ask you to
patch it. This was spotted when there were a large number of Office
updates (about 4 months ago but it could be longer) and it was trying
to do the install in the background.

3 - Certain AV Products: Norton killed my wife's machine time after
time ... eventually I uninstall it ... then had to do a clean build of
XP because it just would not come of the machine properly. I put
Grisoft AVG Free on to start with ... and eventually moved to F-Secure
with no complaints

4 - Drives not waking up: In the power management make sure your
drives are not set to go to sleep.

5 - 3rd party screen saver: Just plain nasty ... including a few of
the BBC ones.

6 - Overheating processor: Reapplied the paste and it was happy

Once you have rebooted the machine have a look in the event viewer to
see if it has moaned about anyhting in particular.
Boot into safe mode and leave it running to see if it still hangs.
Once back in normal mode check to see if there are any proccesses that
seem to take a lot of memory or processor.

I know ... lots more questions and ideas, but hopefully it might help
to narrow down the problem.

HTH

Tony

"GrumbleDook"  wrote in message 
news:1178666757.879044.238000@y5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> On 8 May, 22:34, "Ellie"  wrote:
>> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message
>>
>> news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>>
>> > In article , Ellie 
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
>> >> messagenews:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>> >> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
>> >> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
>> >> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>>
>> >> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
>> >> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>>
>> >> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
>> >> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>>
>> >> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
>> >> > something so drastic?
>>
>> >> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
>> >> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>>
>> > anyone?
>>
>> > lots of experts used to reside here ....
>>
>> We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!
>
> Or perhaps some of us thought we would give others a chance to answer.

First time for everything!
:o)
>
> This could be a number of problems ...
>
> Here is an idea of some of the things I have seen cause it and what
> was done to get round it.
>
> 1 - Graphics Driver: make sure you have the latest graphics drivers. I
> have previously had issues with Nvidia and ATI drivers that had issues
> with waking the card up after power management set the display to go
> to sleep.

That could be it as I have had some problems with the graphics in a couple 
of games.

Thanks Tony.

-- 
Ellie

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?

Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to another.
Would be very grateful for a cure.

-- 
Ellie

In article , Ellie 
wrote:

> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
> message news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
> >
> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
> >
> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
> >
> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
> > something so drastic?

> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.


anyone?

lots of experts used to reside here ....

-- 
Gertie. 

Award-winning bog cleaner, Latin scholar and beer festival organiser.
Veni, vidi, Vici iiabui et cervaca, or summat like that 
reply-to address works but not to html mail, hotmail or aol addresses


Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> In article , Ellie 
> wrote:
>
>> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
>> message news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
>> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
>> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>> >
>> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
>> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>> >
>> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
>> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>> >
>> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
>> > something so drastic?
>
>> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
>> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>
>
> anyone?
>
> lots of experts used to reside here ....

We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!

-- 
Ellie

gertie@grumbles burbled:


>anyone?

Open sauce?

>lots of experts used to reside here ....

-- 
Sheel          (Change me to me2 to email.)

So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." 
I said "No, just a watch."

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?
>
> -- 
> Gertie.
>
> Award-winning bog cleaner, Latin scholar and beer festival organiser.
> Veni, vidi, Vici iiabui et cervaca, or summat like that
> reply-to address works but not to html mail, hotmail or aol addresses
>
>
> When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Can't you just press the power button instead of holding it down. Don't like 
any of my pcs going into stand by because of this.

On 8 May, 22:34, "Ellie"  wrote:
> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message
>
> news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>
> > In article , Ellie 
> > wrote:
>
> >> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
> >> messagenews:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> >> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> >> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
> >> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> >> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> >> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> >> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
> >> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> >> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
> >> > something so drastic?
>
> >> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
> >> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>
> > anyone?
>
> > lots of experts used to reside here ....
>
> We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!

Or perhaps some of us thought we would give others a chance to answer.

This could be a number of problems ...

Here is an idea of some of the things I have seen cause it and what
was done to get round it.

1 - Graphics Driver: make sure you have the latest graphics drivers. I
have previously had issues with Nvidia and ATI drivers that had issues
with waking the card up after power management set the display to go
to sleep.

2 - Windows Updates: Check how you have your automatic updates
scheduled. Set it to download the update in the background ask you to
patch it. This was spotted when there were a large number of Office
updates (about 4 months ago but it could be longer) and it was trying
to do the install in the background.

3 - Certain AV Products: Norton killed my wife's machine time after
time ... eventually I uninstall it ... then had to do a clean build of
XP because it just would not come of the machine properly. I put
Grisoft AVG Free on to start with ... and eventually moved to F-Secure
with no complaints

4 - Drives not waking up: In the power management make sure your
drives are not set to go to sleep.

5 - 3rd party screen saver: Just plain nasty ... including a few of
the BBC ones.

6 - Overheating processor: Reapplied the paste and it was happy

Once you have rebooted the machine have a look in the event viewer to
see if it has moaned about anyhting in particular.
Boot into safe mode and leave it running to see if it still hangs.
Once back in normal mode check to see if there are any proccesses that
seem to take a lot of memory or processor.

I know ... lots more questions and ideas, but hopefully it might help
to narrow down the problem.

HTH

Tony

"GrumbleDook"  wrote in message 
news:1178666757.879044.238000@y5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> On 8 May, 22:34, "Ellie"  wrote:
>> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message
>>
>> news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>>
>> > In article , Ellie 
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
>> >> messagenews:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>> >> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
>> >> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
>> >> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>>
>> >> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
>> >> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>>
>> >> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
>> >> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>>
>> >> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
>> >> > something so drastic?
>>
>> >> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
>> >> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>>
>> > anyone?
>>
>> > lots of experts used to reside here ....
>>
>> We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!
>
> Or perhaps some of us thought we would give others a chance to answer.

First time for everything!
:o)
>
> This could be a number of problems ...
>
> Here is an idea of some of the things I have seen cause it and what
> was done to get round it.
>
> 1 - Graphics Driver: make sure you have the latest graphics drivers. I
> have previously had issues with Nvidia and ATI drivers that had issues
> with waking the card up after power management set the display to go
> to sleep.

That could be it as I have had some problems with the graphics in a couple 
of games.

Thanks Tony.

-- 
Ellie

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?

Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to another.
Would be very grateful for a cure.

-- 
Ellie

In article , Ellie 
wrote:

> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
> message news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
> >
> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
> >
> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
> >
> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
> > something so drastic?

> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.


anyone?

lots of experts used to reside here ....

-- 
Gertie. 

Award-winning bog cleaner, Latin scholar and beer festival organiser.
Veni, vidi, Vici iiabui et cervaca, or summat like that 
reply-to address works but not to html mail, hotmail or aol addresses


Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> In article , Ellie 
> wrote:
>
>> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
>> message news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
>> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
>> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>> >
>> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
>> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>> >
>> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
>> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>> >
>> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
>> > something so drastic?
>
>> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
>> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>
>
> anyone?
>
> lots of experts used to reside here ....

We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!

-- 
Ellie

gertie@grumbles burbled:


>anyone?

Open sauce?

>lots of experts used to reside here ....

-- 
Sheel          (Change me to me2 to email.)

So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." 
I said "No, just a watch."

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?
>
> -- 
> Gertie.
>
> Award-winning bog cleaner, Latin scholar and beer festival organiser.
> Veni, vidi, Vici iiabui et cervaca, or summat like that
> reply-to address works but not to html mail, hotmail or aol addresses
>
>
> When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Can't you just press the power button instead of holding it down. Don't like 
any of my pcs going into stand by because of this.

On 8 May, 22:34, "Ellie"  wrote:
> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message
>
> news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>
> > In article , Ellie 
> > wrote:
>
> >> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
> >> messagenews:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> >> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> >> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
> >> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> >> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> >> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> >> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
> >> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> >> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
> >> > something so drastic?
>
> >> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
> >> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>
> > anyone?
>
> > lots of experts used to reside here ....
>
> We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!

Or perhaps some of us thought we would give others a chance to answer.

This could be a number of problems ...

Here is an idea of some of the things I have seen cause it and what
was done to get round it.

1 - Graphics Driver: make sure you have the latest graphics drivers. I
have previously had issues with Nvidia and ATI drivers that had issues
with waking the card up after power management set the display to go
to sleep.

2 - Windows Updates: Check how you have your automatic updates
scheduled. Set it to download the update in the background ask you to
patch it. This was spotted when there were a large number of Office
updates (about 4 months ago but it could be longer) and it was trying
to do the install in the background.

3 - Certain AV Products: Norton killed my wife's machine time after
time ... eventually I uninstall it ... then had to do a clean build of
XP because it just would not come of the machine properly. I put
Grisoft AVG Free on to start with ... and eventually moved to F-Secure
with no complaints

4 - Drives not waking up: In the power management make sure your
drives are not set to go to sleep.

5 - 3rd party screen saver: Just plain nasty ... including a few of
the BBC ones.

6 - Overheating processor: Reapplied the paste and it was happy

Once you have rebooted the machine have a look in the event viewer to
see if it has moaned about anyhting in particular.
Boot into safe mode and leave it running to see if it still hangs.
Once back in normal mode check to see if there are any proccesses that
seem to take a lot of memory or processor.

I know ... lots more questions and ideas, but hopefully it might help
to narrow down the problem.

HTH

Tony

"GrumbleDook"  wrote in message 
news:1178666757.879044.238000@y5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> On 8 May, 22:34, "Ellie"  wrote:
>> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message
>>
>> news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>>
>> > In article , Ellie 
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
>> >> messagenews:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>> >> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
>> >> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
>> >> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>>
>> >> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
>> >> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>>
>> >> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
>> >> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>>
>> >> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
>> >> > something so drastic?
>>
>> >> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
>> >> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>>
>> > anyone?
>>
>> > lots of experts used to reside here ....
>>
>> We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!
>
> Or perhaps some of us thought we would give others a chance to answer.

First time for everything!
:o)
>
> This could be a number of problems ...
>
> Here is an idea of some of the things I have seen cause it and what
> was done to get round it.
>
> 1 - Graphics Driver: make sure you have the latest graphics drivers. I
> have previously had issues with Nvidia and ATI drivers that had issues
> with waking the card up after power management set the display to go
> to sleep.

That could be it as I have had some problems with the graphics in a couple 
of games.

Thanks Tony.

-- 
Ellie

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?

Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to another.
Would be very grateful for a cure.

-- 
Ellie

In article , Ellie 
wrote:

> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
> message news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
> >
> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
> >
> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
> >
> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
> > something so drastic?

> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.


anyone?

lots of experts used to reside here ....

-- 
Gertie. 

Award-winning bog cleaner, Latin scholar and beer festival organiser.
Veni, vidi, Vici iiabui et cervaca, or summat like that 
reply-to address works but not to html mail, hotmail or aol addresses


Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> In article , Ellie 
> wrote:
>
>> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
>> message news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
>> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
>> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>> >
>> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
>> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>> >
>> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
>> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>> >
>> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
>> > something so drastic?
>
>> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
>> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>
>
> anyone?
>
> lots of experts used to reside here ....

We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!

-- 
Ellie

gertie@grumbles burbled:


>anyone?

Open sauce?

>lots of experts used to reside here ....

-- 
Sheel          (Change me to me2 to email.)

So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." 
I said "No, just a watch."

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?
>
> -- 
> Gertie.
>
> Award-winning bog cleaner, Latin scholar and beer festival organiser.
> Veni, vidi, Vici iiabui et cervaca, or summat like that
> reply-to address works but not to html mail, hotmail or aol addresses
>
>
> When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Can't you just press the power button instead of holding it down. Don't like 
any of my pcs going into stand by because of this.

On 8 May, 22:34, "Ellie"  wrote:
> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message
>
> news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>
> > In article , Ellie 
> > wrote:
>
> >> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
> >> messagenews:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> >> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> >> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
> >> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> >> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> >> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> >> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
> >> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> >> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
> >> > something so drastic?
>
> >> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
> >> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>
> > anyone?
>
> > lots of experts used to reside here ....
>
> We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!

Or perhaps some of us thought we would give others a chance to answer.

This could be a number of problems ...

Here is an idea of some of the things I have seen cause it and what
was done to get round it.

1 - Graphics Driver: make sure you have the latest graphics drivers. I
have previously had issues with Nvidia and ATI drivers that had issues
with waking the card up after power management set the display to go
to sleep.

2 - Windows Updates: Check how you have your automatic updates
scheduled. Set it to download the update in the background ask you to
patch it. This was spotted when there were a large number of Office
updates (about 4 months ago but it could be longer) and it was trying
to do the install in the background.

3 - Certain AV Products: Norton killed my wife's machine time after
time ... eventually I uninstall it ... then had to do a clean build of
XP because it just would not come of the machine properly. I put
Grisoft AVG Free on to start with ... and eventually moved to F-Secure
with no complaints

4 - Drives not waking up: In the power management make sure your
drives are not set to go to sleep.

5 - 3rd party screen saver: Just plain nasty ... including a few of
the BBC ones.

6 - Overheating processor: Reapplied the paste and it was happy

Once you have rebooted the machine have a look in the event viewer to
see if it has moaned about anyhting in particular.
Boot into safe mode and leave it running to see if it still hangs.
Once back in normal mode check to see if there are any proccesses that
seem to take a lot of memory or processor.

I know ... lots more questions and ideas, but hopefully it might help
to narrow down the problem.

HTH

Tony

"GrumbleDook"  wrote in message 
news:1178666757.879044.238000@y5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> On 8 May, 22:34, "Ellie"  wrote:
>> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message
>>
>> news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>>
>> > In article , Ellie 
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
>> >> messagenews:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>> >> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
>> >> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
>> >> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>>
>> >> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
>> >> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>>
>> >> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
>> >> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>>
>> >> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
>> >> > something so drastic?
>>
>> >> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
>> >> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>>
>> > anyone?
>>
>> > lots of experts used to reside here ....
>>
>> We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!
>
> Or perhaps some of us thought we would give others a chance to answer.

First time for everything!
:o)
>
> This could be a number of problems ...
>
> Here is an idea of some of the things I have seen cause it and what
> was done to get round it.
>
> 1 - Graphics Driver: make sure you have the latest graphics drivers. I
> have previously had issues with Nvidia and ATI drivers that had issues
> with waking the card up after power management set the display to go
> to sleep.

That could be it as I have had some problems with the graphics in a couple 
of games.

Thanks Tony.

-- 
Ellie

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?

Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to another.
Would be very grateful for a cure.

-- 
Ellie

In article , Ellie 
wrote:

> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
> message news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
> >
> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
> >
> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
> >
> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
> > something so drastic?

> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.


anyone?

lots of experts used to reside here ....

-- 
Gertie. 

Award-winning bog cleaner, Latin scholar and beer festival organiser.
Veni, vidi, Vici iiabui et cervaca, or summat like that 
reply-to address works but not to html mail, hotmail or aol addresses


Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> In article , Ellie 
> wrote:
>
>> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
>> message news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>> > Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
>> > cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know
>> > it is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>> >
>> > The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
>> > shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>> >
>> > None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space
>> > bar hammering, monitor power off and on again
>> >
>> > What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing
>> > something so drastic?
>
>> Same here - when logging off from one user so as can change to
>> another. Would be very grateful for a cure.
>
>
> anyone?
>
> lots of experts used to reside here ....

We've stumped them with this one, Gertie!

-- 
Ellie

gertie@grumbles burbled:


>anyone?

Open sauce?

>lots of experts used to reside here ....

-- 
Sheel          (Change me to me2 to email.)

So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." 
I said "No, just a watch."

"gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message 
news:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> Sometimes, when I go to use my pc, previously left on standby, I
> cannot get it to show anything on the monitor, even though I know it
> is running - green led, fan noise, etc.
>
> The only way I can use it is to hold the power button in until it
> shuts down then restart it, complete with scandisk check.
>
> None of the usual things work - wakeup key, mousewiggling, space bar
> hammering, monitor power off and on again
>
> What causes this and how do I get to use it without doing something
> so drastic?
>
> -- 
> Gertie.
>
> Award-winning bog cleaner, Latin scholar and beer festival organiser.
> Veni, vidi, Vici iiabui et cervaca, or summat like that
> reply-to address works but not to html mail, hotmail or aol addresses
>
>
> When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Can't you just press the power button instead of holding it down. Don't like 
any of my pcs going into stand by because of this.

On 8 May, 22:34, "Ellie"  wrote:
> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in message
>
> news:4edfec880egertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
>
> > In article , Ellie 
> > wrote:
>
> >> "gertie@grumbles"  wrote in
> >> messagenews:4edeae71cdgertie@grumbles.freeserve.co.uk...
> >> > Someti