Invalid system disk (fixed) + not waking from sleep mode

[Mog]

I've had the following problems since my comp arrived yesterday and thought it would be useful to post them either for help from you or simple for your own information which maybe you could use when building/setting up your other computers. One of the problems I have touch wood fixed the other I've not tried since the computer arrived yesterday.


1. Invalid system disk. Replace the disk and then press any key.


I left my new computer on when I went to sleep last night as it was slowly downloading the 10 GB worth of updates it takes to get World of Warcraft fully updated.
Well I woke up a few hours later and went to check it and there it was, invalid system disk... my computer had tried to reboot at some point and failed, giving this error message.

I had left a pen drive plugged into the front of my computer and wondered if this could be anything to do with it. I removed it and restarted the computer..... but no dice. The computer still said invalid system disk and by this point I was worried.

Fix: Went into BIOS and changed the boot priory list which read:
1. Removable disk
2. Hard drive

Swapped those two round and my computer booted. Why did removing the pen drive not fix the problem is my question and why would it just not skip past the pen drive and boot without me touching the BIOS settings either?


2. Computer does not wake from sleep mode.

I put my computer in sleep mode a couple of times (Windows 7 64 bit) but the computer will not exit sleep mode.... it cannot be woken by pressing any buttons on the mouse, keyboard or the computer itself. It stays completely silent and in a deep sleep. The only thing that helped was turning the power off and back on. Since then I no longer let my computer enter sleep mode as it doesn't enjoy waking up at all .:turned:

Does anyone have any advice on why this may be and could it be related to the first problem? Have not tried putting it in sleep mode again since the invalid disk problem.

Other than that no more problems yet.


Cheers

 

[Gorman]

Hi Mog,

1. The boot device priority, as you suspect is where this issue comes up. Is it possible there was something else still plugged in that the machine was trying to boot to? Was the original restart caused by updates? As a rule of thumb all machines are set to boot to the hdd as default.

2.goto run and type cmd, in the small black box ignore whatever it already says and type, "powercfg -devicequery wake_armed" without the ".

This will list all devices which are allowed to wake the machine, we need to make sure your keyboard and mouse are listed first of all.

 

[Mog]

Sorry about the double topic I was pretty tired earlier

Thanks for the speedy reply, to answer what you've said:

1. There wasn't anything else plugged into the computer except some earphones but it still didn't boot until I'd changed the BIOS settings even after removing the pen drive. The restart was almost certainly caused by windows updates installing which I also asked it to do and forgot about.... I'd postponed it for 4 hours but forgot about it, so the reason it restarted shouldn't be any problem.

2. "powercfg -devicequery wake_armed" shows:

Logitech HID-compliant G3/MX518 Optical Mouse
Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
HID Keyboard Device

as the list of devices. Have installed the drivers for the mouse and also switched the keyboard and mouse earlier to see if that would wake it but not got drivers for the keyboards... not sure if that is necessary. I tried putting the computer in sleep mode again just now but that problem still exists and it won't wake. The power button etc on the computer does nothing to wake it either.


Not a major problem but would be nice to fix

 

[Gorman]

ok what does powercfg -lastwake give as a result?

also powercfg -AVAILABLESLEEPSTATES

a screen shot would be fine =]

 

[Mog]

Here we are lets see if this works. That's what I got.


Off out soon so next reply could be a while. Thanks again.

 

[silkysean]

Which motherboard do you have? I know there's a problem with Asus P8P67 mobo's which don't allow resume from sleep. Asus are apparently working on it.