PC shutting down when idle

Hi I am new to this forum but I am impressed with everything I have rea
so far. In the last 2 days, if I leave my PC idle for a few minutes i
shuts down. And then when I try to restart the PC I can't withou
pushing the reset button on my motherboard an Asus PT6 Delux
motherboard. I am running Vista 64 Ultimate with 6G Ram. Everest say
that all my temps are normal. I have upgraded the BIOS thinking it migh
be corrupt. It still does it, I have installed the latest video drive
for my ATI 4870. I have restored my system to last month when ther
where no issues. I am out of ideas. Norton Security Suite says nothin
is wrong. Does anyone have any ideas of what could be causing this?
have also reset all my power options back to original. Any help would b
appreciated.:eek

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Draxtor

Hi, Draxtor.

You posted to a "forum", but they simply relayed your post via the
"vBulletin USENET gateway" to where I am reading it, in the
microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_mainten ance newsgroup on the
Microsoft public news server, a part of Usenet - but also accessible as
"Microsoft Communities" via Internet Explorer or any other web browser.

To cut out the middleman and post here directly, simply click here:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ce_maintenance

Now, to your problem...

I'm running Win7 now, but as I recall, the settings in Vista are virtually
identical. In Vista, press Start | Control Panel | Power Options. Here you
can change many settings, including "Choose when to turn off the display"
and "Choose when the computer sleeps". You should be able to find a setting
here that will do what you want.

Also here is 'Choose what the power buttons do". It took me a long time to
learn a couple of points here. First, when I'm ready to Shut Down, I can
click Start | Shut Down, as I always did. But the computer's Power Button -
be default - does exactly the same thing: It does an orderly shut down of
Windows and the computer, all the way to a power off. And, second, when I
come back from lunch and find my computer shut down except for a slow
blinking of the power LED, I can press the power button to wake it up. This
is MUCH better than pressing Reset! The computer resumes from where it was
when it nodded off; it doesn't have to reboot from scratch, losing whatever
I was working on and hadn't saved. ;<)

I hope these tidbits help you as much as they did me.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64

"Draxtor" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hi I am new to this forum but I am impressed with everything I have read
> so far. In the last 2 days, if I leave my PC idle for a few minutes it
> shuts down. And then when I try to restart the PC I can't without
> pushing the reset button on my motherboard an Asus PT6 Deluxe
> motherboard. I am running Vista 64 Ultimate with 6G Ram. Everest says
> that all my temps are normal. I have upgraded the BIOS thinking it might
> be corrupt. It still does it, I have installed the latest video driver
> for my ATI 4870. I have restored my system to last month when there
> where no issues. I am out of ideas. Norton Security Suite says nothing
> is wrong. Does anyone have any ideas of what could be causing this? I
> have also reset all my power options back to original. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
>
> --
> Draxtor

Thanks for the suggestions, I really appreciated them. But believe o
not, my problems were with corrupt video drivers. I borrowed my son'
Nvidia video card and removed all ATI video drivers. I manged to ru
without any problems for 14 + hours. I had to find out whether it was m
video card or the drivers, so I installed my video card back in.
haven't had any more problems since then, except for trying to instal
Nero 9. It will not ever completely install. But I will figure it ou
eventually. Thanks again.:

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Draxtor