My computer turns off when I move the mouse or the space bar after it has been in hibernation for a couple of hours or so. If I move the mouse or space bar before this time there is no problem. Any ideas please? I have a new mother board and computer tower and have Windows XP OS.

might be dirty, get a can of air, from like home depot, office max, etc. turn off laptop, take out battery, turn upside down and blow the air underneath the spacebar, this should fix your problem. If not you need a new space bar.

Chad

it is always best to be as descriptive as possible and give as much info as you can about your problem. is it a laptop or desk top? is it a new display added to a desktop? if it is a desktop and the screen is blank after you turn it on, most likely the cable to the pc is not firmly connected (i've done this many times when setting up a new system) or it could also be that the system has gone into Hibernate mode and moving the mouse or pressing the space bar or escape key could bring it out of hibernate mode. Hibernate mode goes active when the system has been idle for a long time without any keystrokes or mouse activity. hope this helps

Some laptops will wake from hibernation by touching the keypad, moving the mouse, pressing any key, pressing enter or the space bar. Some laptops will wake when you press the power button. You'll think it's rebooting, but when you look it will say Resuming Windows.

No Sound? Check your drivers, check the volume level and make sure you don't have the sound muted. You can also check your Audio and Sound properties in the device manager or control panel. If you see the megaphone at the bottom right near the time, you can right click on it to get properties.

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Generally all Windows OS has an option for sleep & hibernate.

Windows XP Users

• Sleep Mode

By letting your computer idle for a period of time, i.e. not moving the mouse/touchpad, or not pressing any keys except when playing a video, the screen or desktop monitor will go dark. You can resume the computer by moving the mouse/touchpad or by pressing any key on the keyboard.

• Hibernation or Standby mode

Click Start, click on Turn Off Computer, then click Stand By.

Windows VISTA/Windows 7 Users

To put Windows VISTA & Windows 7 in Sleep or in Hibernation, the steps basically the same. First click Start, then click the small arrow head located to the right of the Start Menu, then you click Sleep or Hibernate.


Fig. 1. Windows VISTA Start Menu. To put Windows VISTA to Sleep or Hibernate, click the small arrow head right next the Lock icon then click Sleep or Hibernate.


Fig. 2. Windows 7 Start Menu. To put Windows 7 to Sleep or Hibernate, click the small arrow head right next the word Shut Down then click Sleep or Hibernate.

You should check the "Power Options" when the computer "Sleeps" & "Hibernates". Go to the "Control Panel" if you Win 7 or below, if you have Win 10 just type "Power" on the "Search Box" on the bottom left of the screen and then click "Edit a Power Plan" and set when the Computer "Sleeps" and when it "Hibernates". Basically when you move your mouse you are waking up the Computer from "Sleeping" or "Hibernating". Goodluck.

IF YOU DO NOT USE THE HIBERNATION OPTION THEN YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND DISABLE IT
NOTE: HIBERNATION OPTION CONSUMES A LOT OF SPACE ON YOUR COMPUTER.IT MIGHT HAPEEN THE COMPUTER DOES NOT HAVE FREE SPACE SO THAT IS WHY IT IS GOING TO HIBERNATION.
PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK AND THEN CHECK WHAT IS YOUR EXACT PROBLEM:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929658


MY EXPERIENCE:If you happen to use a computer with more than 1GB of RAM coupled with Windows XP SP2, then you will have trouble putting your computer to hibernation. You may get this message, “Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API”. When you experience this problem, the hibernate feature is not available on the computer until you restart the computer. I was facing this problem because my computer has got 2GB of RAM and putting it to hibernation was causing me trouble. Well you need not worry about it any more as Microsoft has issued a patch for this problem

Perhaps your computer is hibernating instead of going into standby which takes a little longer to wake up from. While you are playing plugs and cables it give it enough time to come out of hibernation.

When the computer is in this mode the USB ports turn off which disables keyboard and mouse so the only way to wake up the computer is to press the power button on the computer itself.

One tell tale sign a computer is in hibernation is that the power light on the computer will slowly blink.

I hope this helps.

In windows click start, control panel, power options. On the first page"when the computer is plugged in" turn monitor off NEVER on the hibernate tab uncheck enable hibernation if checked, also disable sleep mode

Generally you can just hit the space bar a couple of times, and that should bring the machine out of Standby mode. However, if it is not Standby but Hibernate mode, you usually need to push the power button to bring it back from Hibernate.

You can adjust these and other power settings by going to the Control Panel, and clicking on the Power Options applet.

Hit the keyboard keys. It is better to just turn sleep and hibernate off and just use a screen saver or tun it off.