Crashing

antifreeze

<div class="IPBDescription">When resuming from sleep</div>After doing some searching on Google I couldn't find the solution to this problem however I may not have been using the right keywords.

When I resume my pc from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACPI#Global_states" target="_blank">S3 Standby</a> it crashes/freezes 9 times out of 10. On a few occasions it has managed to make it, but usually it crashes on a black screen with just the mouse pointer visible or when I click my username on the XP welcome screen.

The PC has no other problems except this one so I can't narrow the problem down.

Any ideas?

<a href="http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=44HB" target="_blank">Intel Core 2 E6300</a>
<a href="http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=451B" target="_blank">Gigabyte 965P-DS3</a>
<a href="http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=3G0W" target="_blank">2 x 512 Mb Corsair XMS2 5400</a>
<a href="http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=43G3" target="_blank">Nvidia 7300GT PCIE</a>
<a href="http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=3YM2" target="_blank">160Gb Samsung S300 SATA</a> (Windows Drive)
2 x Maxtor 160Gb (Storage)

Redford

Stop putting your system into sleep mode.

Talesin

Sleep is pointless on a desktop. Turn it off, or leave it on. Especially with the amount of ram you've got installed... you're having to copy it to the hard drives, then restore from the drives. Just shutting down and booting up again in the first place would likely be faster.

And if you don't want to lose whatever webpage(s) you're on, make a temporary bookmarks folder.

lolfighter

Talesin, he's putting it in S3, called Standby in Windows and Sleep in Mac OS X. In that state, most of the system except for the RAM is powered off, but normal operation can quickly be continued by powering up the powered down components. S3 allows you to save a lot of power, yet very quickly return the system to normal operation when required.
What you are referring to is S4, called Hibernate in Windows and Safe Sleep in Mac OS X, where the entire content of the memory is written to the hard drive and the system is then completely powered off. At the next boot, instead of booting normally, the memory dump on the hard drive is written into memory and operation resumes (almost) as if the computer had never been powered down. Also, unlike S3, power failure during S4 does not result in any loss of data, since the system is already powered down and all relevant data are saved to the hard drive. On the other hand, going into or out of S4 takes a lot longer than with S3.

TychoCelchuuu

Run in Safe Mode, see if it still happens. If it does, reinstall Windows. If it doesn't, you've got driver problems.