power settings

Hey Guys, Hopefully one of you can help me cos im getting really frustrated. I have tried searching online for solutions but to no avail. My laptop is just under 12 months old and other than the battery dying already I have never really had any problems until last week. Its a Dell Inspiron...

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I've got a strange problem. Whenever I restart my computer, the Power Management settings on my wireless adapter keep reverting back to the defaults. This is a problem because the option "Allow this device to wake the computer" is enabled by default for this wireless adapter. Not only is this...

Hi, I'm having some trouble with my USB. It seems that any USB storage device I plug in either 1) is not recognized at all (no error message or anything), or 2) displays an error message that the device is not recognized, or driver wasn't installed correctly. This problem seems to pertain...

Hi, Most mornings during the first 10 minutes after startup - but sometimes several hours after, my display will switch off (with the computer still running). If I put the computer to sleep and straight out again, the display comes back on. Very occasionally, it will go strainght off again and I...

i recently built my machine. it was working fine doing things in windows and out. i have an SSD now and liked how smoothly the computer would resume from the default sleep mode power settings that came with win7, so for the first time i've actually been using them on my desktop. however...

I have a HP Pavilion a6607c with Windows 7 64 bit installed, the computer goes to sleep just fine, but when I try to wake it from sleep everything turns on but no fully fans working but the LED light goes from blue back to orange as if it is stuck in sleep mode, I have updated the bios but im...

Hi, I recently configured an HTPC. Now I set the power savings and such so that the computer turns off the display and hibernates 'never'. However, my system goes to sleep in 20 minutes while im streaming video. I have even tried to create my own power plan and it still goes to sleep. Does...

Hello, I am using Windows 7 Home edition. I have found that the turn off monitor and sleep functions do not work. When I set these from edit plan settings and save changes it does not do anything. I have tried restarting my computer to see if this would work but to no avail. I have no...

I have a new Desktop with Windows 7. After I start the computer and leave it running for a while, (10 to 15min), it will automatically revert to the password screen. Also it won't go to screen saver. I have the screensaver set to not require password after waking. Also I have my power...

There are several threads about the network card going to sleep when a laptop is idle, but all of them I've seen just suggest the same things regarding various settings. I still have the same problem despite having set the following settings... In "Change Plan Settings"...

I have a puzzling problem, my new laptop allows a variety of power adjustment settings, however the only choice *sleep* for the lid closing, it is greyed out so I cannot select anything else, in the advanced settings no matter which configuration I choose for the rest, I am given just one...

When I open the Lid on this Toshiba L675-OOX Laptop, everything pops up out of sleep the way it should. When I run it on Battery power, I can lift the Lid but it will not come out of Sleep. If I move the mouse, it does. Can someone point out to me how to fix this so that when I lift the Lid...

I have a problem with hibernate/sleep in windows 7. when i set pc to hibernate or sleep, the power turn off, but it does not resume. I press any key on keyboard, power does not come back on, then i push power button, power on and display not windows unexpected shutdown screen, choose safe...

I have a serious and very annoying problem.Ever, since I got Windows 7, whenever watching a movie it freezes (once every 10 minutes, for 3-4 seconds). Also, last night, I found freezess when I listen to music and I'm not a computer, so I guess this is due to some safety mode or something because...

I get INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR blue screen Stop: 0x000000A0 error when hibernate windows 7. could not find a solution. I have followed the procedure in Link Removed I tried different numbers C:\Users\Administrator>powercfg /hibernate /size 100 The hiberfile size has been set to...

I just recently received a new dell xps 9100 loaded with an intel I7 six core 930 processor, 16 gigs of ram, 2x1tb hardrives, soundblaster x-fi soundcard, ati radeon 5870 1gb video card and a few other goodies. when im listening to my music while running other applications it starts to crackle...

When I open the lid of my laptop I see there is no network connection and computer starts to search it. It happens a lot but not always. I tried to see how long it takes for the connection to be disconnected after I close it, and sometimes it happens almost immediately - I close the lid, open...

I leave my computer on at home so I can remote desktop into it when I'm out at work or in the library. Recently after upgading to Windows 7 Pro, I'm seeing this problem. The remote desktop works when I'm out, but when I get home, my computer's unaccessible. Both my monitors (i run a dual...