Thats good news. Have you ran windows update and downloaded all updates? Also go to Control Panel-> System & Security-> Under Administrative Tools, View Event Logs-> Windows Logs tab-> Then review and post anything related to the problem, specifically the service listed as "power-troubleshooter"...
Is there any hardware that was in the the system when it had the "unlisted" motherboard? I have seen some powersupplies that did not work with power saving features like sleep and hibernate before, how old is the power supply?
If I read correctly you cannot access the Ubuntu partition within windows. This is due to Ubuntu using a diffrent filesystem which is unsupported within windows. Usually this is EXT3 or EXT4. Windows cannot support these filesystems. However another possible fix would be to shrink the windows...
I have a relative who lives in the United States. Their ISP is demanding they install the ISP's "custom" antivirus. The relative already has a antivirus and firewall application installed that works and causes no problems and is updated and used regularly. However this relative also fears the...