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Windows 7 sleep and resume problem
2010-Sep-10, Friday 09:23 pmI'm stuck tonight with a new Windows 7 installation and only minimal, necessary applications reinstalled. :(
Has anyone here used a RAID 1 array for their operating system volume? Do you have any suggestions to offer? I've never done it before. I am tempted, for my own peace of mind, to buy another hard drive and try a RAID 1 install for two must-be-preserved volumes: the main operating system, and old email archives. I need to decide this weekend, before I spend any more effort reinstalling old applications. I disapprove of any additional power usage (which a duplicate drive would require), but additional reliability would help to avoid headaches like this again.
I frequently put my Windows 7 pc into Sleep mode rather than doing a proper logoff and shutdown. Works fine... almost all of the time. I would sometimes experience bootup problems when Windows 7 tried to Resume operations again. I would hear devices powering up inside my computer, then it would hang for 2-3 seconds, then the system would reboot. Everything was fine after the reboot. I think the problem was caused by some powered-down device not responding fast enough (a hard drive spinning up, maybe) before the motherboard (or Windows 7) gave up and rebooted instead. I very much like my ASUS Rampage Formula motherboard, so I don't want to think any ill thoughts of it yet.
During this last failed Resume, however, I permanently lost contact with a hard drive that happened to have the boot manager on it. I figured I might as well take the opportunity to upgrade to a larger drive and reinstall everything. That's where I'm at now. I have also downloaded the latest BIOS update for my motherboard. I flashed the ROM. I rebooted. (First, of course, I had to spend 20 minutes wondering why the system wouldn't boot again, until I finally realized that all of my previous BIOS settings were erased, so I had to set the hard drives back to ACHI mode again before they would work properly. *sigh*)
While studying the issue, I found this very interesting utility buried inside Windows:
I like my motherboard and my hard drives to be "green" technology with efficient power-down features. I wonder, though, if that might be responsible for the slow power-up problem? Thoughts to ponder before I commit to building any particular system configuration tonight.
The joys of technology. Impermanence rules the world.
Has anyone here used a RAID 1 array for their operating system volume? Do you have any suggestions to offer? I've never done it before. I am tempted, for my own peace of mind, to buy another hard drive and try a RAID 1 install for two must-be-preserved volumes: the main operating system, and old email archives. I need to decide this weekend, before I spend any more effort reinstalling old applications. I disapprove of any additional power usage (which a duplicate drive would require), but additional reliability would help to avoid headaches like this again.
I frequently put my Windows 7 pc into Sleep mode rather than doing a proper logoff and shutdown. Works fine... almost all of the time. I would sometimes experience bootup problems when Windows 7 tried to Resume operations again. I would hear devices powering up inside my computer, then it would hang for 2-3 seconds, then the system would reboot. Everything was fine after the reboot. I think the problem was caused by some powered-down device not responding fast enough (a hard drive spinning up, maybe) before the motherboard (or Windows 7) gave up and rebooted instead. I very much like my ASUS Rampage Formula motherboard, so I don't want to think any ill thoughts of it yet.
During this last failed Resume, however, I permanently lost contact with a hard drive that happened to have the boot manager on it. I figured I might as well take the opportunity to upgrade to a larger drive and reinstall everything. That's where I'm at now. I have also downloaded the latest BIOS update for my motherboard. I flashed the ROM. I rebooted. (First, of course, I had to spend 20 minutes wondering why the system wouldn't boot again, until I finally realized that all of my previous BIOS settings were erased, so I had to set the hard drives back to ACHI mode again before they would work properly. *sigh*)
While studying the issue, I found this very interesting utility buried inside Windows:
| Start button, in the search box, enter: | cmd |
| In the new command line box, enter: | powercfg -energy |
| After it finishes (60 seconds), enter: | energy-report.html |
I like my motherboard and my hard drives to be "green" technology with efficient power-down features. I wonder, though, if that might be responsible for the slow power-up problem? Thoughts to ponder before I commit to building any particular system configuration tonight.
The joys of technology. Impermanence rules the world.