Hello all!

 

About a month or two ago I purchased a brand new HP Pavilion desktop PC from Bestbuy because my other PC broke. It is not the best computer, but it runs GTA along with many other games. Anywho, since I have gotten it, the computer has had only one issue that I can't seem to fix... When it falls asleep, it will not turn on no matter how long I wait. When I tap my keyboard, the PC itself will act as if it is waking up again, but my screens don't receive any video from it until I hold the power button on the tower, turn it off, then back on again. Also, if it falls asleep for a short amount of time and I tap the spacebar on my keyboard to wake it up again, it acts normally and wakes up. Why is this? I have never had this issue before. If any of you have had the same or similar problems with your PC's and have any hints/tips/tricks to help me out, it would be awesome! 

 

Thank you all SO much!

 

WantNoms

We have it at work, we pretty much figured out that there are some whacky drivers. I would recommend just disabling power saving mode (i.e that the computer falls asleep after a few minutes) and disabling hibernation. 

We have it at work, we pretty much figured out that there are some whacky drivers. I would recommend just disabling power saving mode (i.e that the computer falls asleep after a few minutes) and disabling hibernation. 

Thank you! I just like the power saving mode to save power, but I guess if I leave for awhile I can just turn off my computer. I'm too lazy to go through the process of turning everything back on. Major first world problems.

Heh I hear you. But that's the advice I can give :) 

Thank you for your time!

You can keep your power saver settings and still stop your PC from shutting down. If you're using Windows 7 (could work for Windows 8)

 

You go to Control Panel - System and Security - Power options

 

one the side bar, there should be either a "Choose when to turn off the display" or "Change when the computer sleeps", click on either one of them and switch both "Turn off display" and "Put the computer to sleep" to never.