preparing to go to stand by... randomly!

[graysky]

Anyone else experienced this? The machine just enters PS mode and freezes in the process. All I can see on the screen is, "preparing to go to stand by..."

It doesn't hard lock because I can move the mouse, but I cannot abort it or interact beyond just moving the mouse. The only way to recover is to reboot and lose data in the process. Power savings is disabled by the way. Could this be the sign of some sort of hardware failure?

Thanks for any advice.

[jcarle]

What is your computer? Is it a laptop? What are it's specifications?

[#rootworm]

i'd say it's either some power management setting in BIOS that's disabled or windows installed the wrong HAL.

[graysky]

Thanks for the replies all. I logged in as admin and disabled power management (it's odd because my user is a PC admin as well) but that did the trick!