[zkm1223]

i have enabled it but the same thing still happens. the monitor's lights goes from blue to orange and does display anything on the screen.

Should i put the setting back to how they were?

[Seth]

There will be an option in the bios to "Restore Defaults". Go ahead and do that, then try Standby. As a test, please see if the same thing occurs using Hibernation.

What is the make and model of the PC?

Did you install and drivers or updates just prior do this occurring?

[danzil]

Can you get into safe modde now...at startup keep tapping the f8 key, you will recieve some options choose safe mode. if you can boot into this try running a system restore to the day before this happened.....if this is a pc i wouldnt really have hibernation turned on,,,
let me us know if safe mode works
regards
danzil

[Seth]

Danzil,

The Hibernation suggestion was for testing purposes only.

[zkm1223]

i've restored the BIOS setting to default and tried standby but the same thing happens. i have also tried hibernate, that works fine.

however when i restored the BIOS setting to default, just before the windows splash screen, for about 2-3 seconds a black screen appears with a flashing cursor in the left hand corner(didn't used to happen before i restored the BIOS settings to default). Is that a problem or is it normal?

Also danzil i can get into windows so i'm not sure why i should go into safe mode?

I haven't installed any new drivers and i bought all my PC components and got someone to fix them together so it hasn't really got a make and model, however most of the boards are ASUS i.e the motherboard, graphics card etc.