PC on when power goes out

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Hi

my PC is set on power saver mode in windows 7 so it sleeps often, last night was a heavy storm that knocked the power out for about 30-45 minutes during that time the other pc running with the ups died but my pc was still happily blinking after the power came back i clicked the mouse and it was ready like before it came to the login screen(no bios startup), i know pc's only power ram when in sleep mode- and i have 8 gigs of ram (core i7) so how was it still able work and for that long.
 
jarrydred said:
Hi

my PC is set on power saver mode in windows 7 so it sleeps often, last night was a heavy storm that knocked the power out for about 30-45 minutes during that time the other pc running with the ups died but my pc was still happily blinking after the power came back i clicked the mouse and it was ready like before it came to the login screen(no bios startup), i know pc's only power ram when in sleep mode- and i have 8 gigs of ram (core i7) so how was it still able work and for that long.
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'cos it's a laptop, right?:wtf:
 
Sorry for being off topic: what UPS did you use for the other PC's? A cheap Proline UPS by any chance?
 
jarrydred said:
No cause i would have said it was a laptop and that is pretty logical and self explanatory no is a full atx case with gtx 275 graphics
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Well I've yet to see a PC that can maintain sleep state in RAM without any power...Hibernate, yes. Sleep, no.
 
u sure the power was out and not just tripped for a second?
 
Bunch of nooblets :p

It's a BIOS feature.

You can find it in the BIOS under Power Management Setup--> AC Back Function

Determines the state of the system after the return of power from an AC power loss.
Soft-Off - The system stays off upon the retrun of AC power. (Default)
Full-On - The system is turned on upon the retun of the AC power.
Memory - The system returns to its last known awake state upon the return of the AC power.
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From my MB manual which uses Award BIOS.

Mystery solved.
 
ponder said:
Bunch of nooblets :p

It's a BIOS feature.

You can find it in the BIOS under Power Management Setup--> AC Back Function



From my MB manual which uses Award BIOS.

Mystery solved.
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My OEM motherboard does not have anything related to that the closest thing is turn on after ac loss. And it returned with the exact same application minimized before it went to sleep- My Dead Space 2 after i maximized was at the exact place where i left, there was not black screen while the hard drive was transferring the data back to the memory, it was exact.The BIOS did not show when i resumed from sleep nor was there a windows boot screen just the logon screen showing it was locked and task manager confirmed that it was not powered on again after the power loss because its Uptime was still about 2 days and 9 hours.
 
From the looks of things, it seems like something just tripped the APC unit & its load.
 
jarrydred said:
My OEM motherboard does not have anything related to that the closest thing is turn on after ac loss. And it returned with the exact same application minimized before it went to sleep- My Dead Space 2 after i maximized was at the exact place where i left, there was not black screen while the hard drive was transferring the data back to the memory, it was exact.The BIOS did not show when i resumed from sleep nor was there a windows boot screen just the logon screen showing it was locked and task manager confirmed that it was not powered on again after the power loss because its Uptime was still about 2 days and 9 hours.
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So it came back on and maybe that action triggered it to come out of sleep?

Maybe it's possessed.
 
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