Windows Crashes when Monitor Sleeps

[bluerabbit]

I have one maybe two problems with my PC (1.4Mhz Athlon AMD, 512MB RAM running Win ME). Have only had PC for two weeks and have installed loads of software and data. This problem started about one week ago and happened every now and then and has now progressed to happen every time.

When the monitor and pc shut themselves down to standby mode. I should be able to jiggle the mouse and get everything back to normal. However I get a black screen and can do nothing at all. Whatever I press (including CTRL/ALT/DEL). The only way of getting out of this problem is to do a reset.

I run Norton's Utilities on the PC and have noticed that I am frequently getting Mem Loads of greater than 50%, and the Swap File (118MB)is shown as being 95% used. Open files on C drive is well over 300. These figures look really odd seeing as I have 512MB RAM

Get occasional errors when using RealJukeBox as well which seem to totally crash the machine.

Any ideas as to what might be wrong? one problem or several? Any help would be gratefully appreicated.

DH

 

[gamesman]

Since I guess you wouldn't appreciate me saying the problem was your OS, i would check the power management features and adjust your time-out's.

 

[mbaranski]

Yeah, you've got the crappiest edition (ME) of a crappy OS (Windows) That's what's wrong. There's not going to be much you can do to fix it w/o reloading.
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[reghakr]

Go to Start>Settings>ControlPanel>Power Management and click Never under the Monitor section.

Removing Norton will give you higher resources.

reghakr

 

[Stealer]

I am not sure if ME should have that much memory. Try reducing the amount of ram to 256 and see if that helps at all.

Stealer

 

[dragon99]

disable powermanagment in your bios
it happened quite frequintly with our pc,s wich was running power managment