The Problem:
For a couple months now I've been dealing with an issue where every time my computer goes into sleep mode for more that like 5 minutes, when I wake it programs/applications such as Windows Mail, Netflix and some of my steam games are very choppy or just dont load at all. For example Mail opens, but i cant see any of my mail because it just comes up with the message box but it shows whats behind it -example: http://zyphox.com/mail.png as for netflix, i can go to the site, but then as soon as i go to load a movie it gets to 7% then it just goes black, doesn't matter if i refresh, use different browser or anything. Ive tested silver light and that still works on other sites but somethings going on with netflix. Games, they just are unresponsive and will only render like 100 frames and just keep looping through those frames for ever.
What Ive tried to do:
A while ago(month and a half?) I switched my Graphics card from an Nvidia 9800gt to a eVGA Geforce GTX 550ti and got a 600w power supply. (I thought the 9800gt broke, turns out its fine) I think this is relatively when these issues started happening. So yesterday I decided to put my 9800gt back in and hope it fixed the issue. Nope. About a month ago my hard drive went so I bought a new 2tb western digital black hard drive. This issue happened on both Hard drives, but the first hard drive was fine for 95% of its life. Because of these 2 tests, each with 2 different products it makes me believe the hd and graphics card are not the issue. Ive also upgraded from vista to win 7 ultimate and its happening on both OS's. Only other thing Ive done to my computer is go from a 300w Power Supply to a 600w one back when I switched Graphics card. Unfortunately I cut up the 300w one to test 12v devices with so its no longer capable to be put into a computer. I see no reason how this could affect this problem though. Personally the only thing i think makes sense is something to do with the graphics card, but it worked fine at one point with the 9800gt so im completely confuzzled.
I really hope i can get this all sorted out because its really an obnoxious little bug. Please though don't tell me to just turn sleep/hibernate mode off. Ive also noticed even if the monitor itself goes into power saving mode it will break too so its really random. If i wake it fast enough the issue doesnt occur sometimes. If you want more info on my computer, i always forget where to go to do the tests so if you could just tell me before yelling at me to post the computer specs, that would be nice. Thanks!
For a couple months now I've been dealing with an issue where every time my computer goes into sleep mode for more that like 5 minutes, when I wake it programs/applications such as Windows Mail, Netflix and some of my steam games are very choppy or just dont load at all. For example Mail opens, but i cant see any of my mail because it just comes up with the message box but it shows whats behind it -example: http://zyphox.com/mail.png as for netflix, i can go to the site, but then as soon as i go to load a movie it gets to 7% then it just goes black, doesn't matter if i refresh, use different browser or anything. Ive tested silver light and that still works on other sites but somethings going on with netflix. Games, they just are unresponsive and will only render like 100 frames and just keep looping through those frames for ever.
What Ive tried to do:
A while ago(month and a half?) I switched my Graphics card from an Nvidia 9800gt to a eVGA Geforce GTX 550ti and got a 600w power supply. (I thought the 9800gt broke, turns out its fine) I think this is relatively when these issues started happening. So yesterday I decided to put my 9800gt back in and hope it fixed the issue. Nope. About a month ago my hard drive went so I bought a new 2tb western digital black hard drive. This issue happened on both Hard drives, but the first hard drive was fine for 95% of its life. Because of these 2 tests, each with 2 different products it makes me believe the hd and graphics card are not the issue. Ive also upgraded from vista to win 7 ultimate and its happening on both OS's. Only other thing Ive done to my computer is go from a 300w Power Supply to a 600w one back when I switched Graphics card. Unfortunately I cut up the 300w one to test 12v devices with so its no longer capable to be put into a computer. I see no reason how this could affect this problem though. Personally the only thing i think makes sense is something to do with the graphics card, but it worked fine at one point with the 9800gt so im completely confuzzled.
I really hope i can get this all sorted out because its really an obnoxious little bug. Please though don't tell me to just turn sleep/hibernate mode off. Ive also noticed even if the monitor itself goes into power saving mode it will break too so its really random. If i wake it fast enough the issue doesnt occur sometimes. If you want more info on my computer, i always forget where to go to do the tests so if you could just tell me before yelling at me to post the computer specs, that would be nice. Thanks!
