WHY? - Power Button Blinks while computer sleeps

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First: It is normal that the button blinks.
Secondly: If you think it is really annoying you could disconnect the power
led cable from you barebone to your motherbord. You can find the location of
the connection on your motherboard in the documentaion of your motherbord
(and mostly the cable is labled with "power Led" which should give you a clue
that this is indeed the cable you want). there's no harm in disconnecting it.
Disadvantage is that when the pc is on, the led won't work either. But that's
up to you to decide. Personally,I think this is better than taping the button.
Good luck with it !
 
Is this normal? When I place my Vista Machine to sleep, the power
button of the computer tower starts blinking and does this until I
wake it up.

Can someone tell me if other PCs do this and this is normal? If it is
normal, can someone tell me if there is a setting I need to adjust to
make the computer stop blinking its power button when it sleeps?

thanks!
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It's motherboard dependent. I've got an MSI board that doesn't blink when
put to sleep by Vista and an ASUS board that does.

-dep-
 
In message <[email protected]> "Lang
Murphy said:
I wasn't the one who wrote about chips on MB's... but, and I'm not trying to
minimalize the issue because I know it's important to you, I kind of doubt
there's much you can do about it. Have you looked in your BIOS? Have you
tried googling "disable blinking sleep power button" or something like that?
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There isn't in any modern BIOS.

However, lets step back and evaluate the problem here -- Disconnecting
the light entirely would probably be far easier then playing around with
tape or anything else.
 
That's interesting. I recently changed from an ASUS to an MSI motherboard and
indeed I haven't seen the flashing light. Great remark !
 
I could disconnect the light, but then that would cause another
problem: the light would never go on to indicate that it's on. The
light in question is a very, VERY bright blue LED; hence, why it's so
annoying. If I place something over it, the light will still shine
thru it, and it may help reduce the anoyingness factor: it'll be just
slightly annoying but at least I would be able to know when the
computer is on.

Of course, a better resolution is if the light never blinked when I
placed in to sleep, but that's increasingly looking like an impossible
feat.
 
In message <[email protected]> "Jack"
I could disconnect the light, but then that would cause another
problem: the light would never go on to indicate that it's on. The
light in question is a very, VERY bright blue LED; hence, why it's so
annoying. If I place something over it, the light will still shine
thru it, and it may help reduce the anoyingness factor: it'll be just
slightly annoying but at least I would be able to know when the
computer is on.

Of course, a better resolution is if the light never blinked when I
placed in to sleep, but that's increasingly looking like an impossible
feat.
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Unfortunately that would cause a lot of confusion since it would make it
impossible for users to tell the difference between a state where their
computer looks like it is off, but cannot be unplugged (doze, standby,
suspend, sleep) and where it is safe to unplug (hibernate, soft-off)

These days we only really deal with "Sleep", "Hibernate" and "Off", but
there is still hardware in service that deals with various additional
modes.

It's simply not something most motherboard manufacturers have ever had
requested enough to implement into their BIOSes.

Adding to the confusion is Vista's hybrid sleep, which is technically a
"sleep" state, but the drives are prepared for a hibernate recovery, so
the system can still be powered on in this case.
 
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