[sleep] Forum Topics

Hello, I do not know a lot about computers, so I know this is a long shot. However I really need advice! I have just got a new computer tower (its second hand) and a monitor from a family member. Both monitor and tower were in full working order before …

I have a Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 HP desktop PC when I power the computer on I got Vga input: no input signal and the monitor went back to sleep. If you do you think that is a problem with the video card it is attached to …

I'm adding sound to a simple matching game. I have a sound for a flipping a card, a match, and no match. The problem I am having is when 2 cards are match, the flip and match sounds play simultaneous. So I tried calling Sleep at line 146, which gives …

Hey all - I have searched the internet with no luck, so I finally resorted to here to ask for information. I am trying to find a way to find the time it takes to shut down, sleep, and wake from sleep for a Windows 7 install. I understand that …

Is there a sleep function for so many seconds in HTML or am I gonna have to use JavaScript

Very recently, I let my laptop (HP) battery get too low, and it died on me. Usually, upon plugging in the adaptor, everything starts right back up again. However, this time, the laptop runs, but all I can see is a black screen. I can even hear the little chime …

As far as i know, for desktop, sleep transitions to hibernation(hybrid mode) so even if power is suddenly cut off. All running documents or processes are saved and will continue running when the desktop is turned back on. Now for Laptops. If the laptop is put to sleep and suddenly …

I have a customized computer intel core i3 Ati Radeon 5673 Intel dh67vr 1 TB hardrive I updated my bios it completed sucessfully but when it reboooted my monitor keeps on saying no input then goes to sleep. Please help!

Hello there, i'm having trouble that my computer get wake up after i put on sleep mode. Sometime it wake up in 10 min sometime pretty quick like in couple of minutes. Any idea how to reslove this issue. Regards Shahid

I have an ACER 7741Z. THe screen just went black on me. I unplugged it over night, took battery out, help start button 60 seconds then restarted it. Screen still is black after I type in my security code. After a period of time the computer goes into sleep mode …

Program wont run error says 1>c:\users\owner\documents\visual studio 2008\projects\ia\ia\jb bakery.c(16) : warning C4013: 'sleep' undefined; assuming extern returning int 1>Linking... 1>JB Bakery.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _sleep referenced in function _welcome 1>C:\Users\Owner\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\IA\Debug\IA.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals 1>Build log was saved at "file://c:\Users\Owner\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\IA\IA\Debug\BuildLog.htm" …

I want to make a bash script that will run every time my computer wakes up from sleep. I will be leaving it on and logged in all the time, so a login script would be useless. Is there a certain file name I can give it or something?

how can I sleep my program without sleeping others (or making them slower)? I am using a windows application. here is a fragment of my code: [CODE] //#includes... int WINAPI WinMain (HINSTANCE hInst, HINSTANCE hPrevInst, char * cmdParam, int cmdShow) { MSG msg; int status; Window myWind(SW_SHOW,"Name",150,120,500,0); for(int i=0;i<550;i++){ myWind.setLocation(i,i); …

Guys help me please, the equation on 2/3 is giving the waterTemp to 0; how come it is not changing? and also, if the nWaterTemp reached 20.00or somewhere 20.00 to 21.00; it is supposed to print that "THe kettle is now on "Help please [CODE]#include<stdio.h> #include<stdlib.h> #include<cstdlib> #include<time.h> void wait …

So i recently dug my dad's old computer out of the garage and fired it up. Since i didn't have a monitor yet, i borrowed the one off my dad's current computer the first few times. Everything was working just fine and no problems. Then 2 days later, i got …

I was looking around the time module. The time.sleep(no_of_seconds) sleeps the program for no_of_seconds seconds. I don't think this is busy wait. It must be scheduling the process at a later time. Just curious of how this is working.! :)

I'm working on a CyberPet assignment and I'm not sure how to do the following: 'Then write an [ICODE]encounter ( CyberPet )[/ICODE] method that allows one CyberPet to encounter another and will describe the encounter by returning a String data type. Note that the method should take a CyberPet parameter. …

I am using a) Linux b) Pthreads I want to write a program, with two pthreads, to cater for two queues of people. People arrive at each queue at a random interval of 1 - 10 seconds. Each time a person arrives, print out the number of people in each …

hi everyone so I am trying to do something after waiting a random number of seconds in a while loop.I have python22 installed and I am working on windows xp. The problem is that it time.sleep works fine the first time but returns the following error after that. I dont …

Hello, I am new to the community (well my first thread anyway). I was just wondering which programming language would be the most effective to run a light weight process watcher, and when it detects a particular process to start a another wait loop, which, when the process ends it …

Several weeks ago I installed Win 7 over Vista on a 64-bit HP desktop. Now after a routine reboot atempt machine acts as if it were dead except the green light on the back showing power on. What now? To make maters worse I had the same problem and found …

For a project i'm working on now, i need to create a function that is in the format Hours:Minutes: seconds: Fraction where fraction is 1/10th of a second. It should print out every one tenth of a second. I have no idea where to start or how to do this, …

Hi. I want to run some shell commands on linux machine with python Popen, for ex. "ping". How I can terminate the process, if it isn't finished normally in a given time? I've tried write some code, can anybody improve it or give some better idea? Any suggestions appreciated. Thanx. …

So I'm writing a bit of code for use in an IRC bot. I tried to use scheduler to get around the barbaric-ness of calling time.sleep() every time I want the bot to delay for a few seconds. In scheduler you can choose the delay function "for example time.sleep()"-- but …

hello everyone i was wondering if anyone would be able to help me in an program i have to do. the program wants me to use my initials A and G and plot them on using gotoxy() function to make some thing that look like the picture in the link …

Hi, I will try and make this brief and to the point. My home built system (which has been running smoothly for 2 years now), has just recently experienced some major difficulties. I had been running Windows 7, and put the computer to "sleep." The screen went blank, but the …

Hey :) I have written this code, but it seems that theres an error in it, that i can't find. When i try to compile it i get this error: Call to undefined function 'sleep' in function main(). I know it has something to do with that sleep function, because …

Hello I am very, very new to this C++, and i have been working on something that could help us with something, but thats a long story... Anyways, i want the program to first delete a file then wait some time, and then delete another file. I got it to …

I've been employed to fix a friend's PC troubles and apparently his monitor automatically goes into "sleep" mode whenever the CPU is turned on. Once it passes the initial loading stage (Where the "DELL" screen shows up and the loading bar fills) it goes into sleep mode. I've tried removing …