This is just crazy!

[aimeeandbeatles]

My computer randomly went into standby (I don't use it) and it froze up so I hit the reset button. On reboot, I noticed heavy HDD grinding, so I went into the resource manager:

(p.s. The first one was reading "NTFS Boot Table" or something along those lines)
Not much on google.
What on earth...? The grinding's stopped now, but what could account for the random standby?

(I'll also mention I listen to music at night, and it ended at the end of a song. Traveling Wilburys "New Blue Moon," if you're really interested. The next song down the playlist does play properly so I doubt it's a bad sector or anything on the song. Also when I rebooted a bunch of updates for Java popped up.)

 

[GravityWave]

The HDD access is Vista probably cleaning up the mess after the unexpected shutdown.

If your sure it went in to sleep mode and don't use it then switch it off in power management.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

But the odd thing is, I don't have standby enabled. The only thing I have is for the monitor to turn off after 15 minutes.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

How do you know it was standby? If the screen just turned off, it may have been the video drivers crashing.

 

[Zelig]

Crazy!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

How do you know it was standby? If the screen just turned off, it may have been the video drivers crashing.

Hmm...may be possible. But the sound had stopped as well, which is how I knew of the problem.

I also noticed when it came back, Winamp was a blank white window, the skin was missing. I tried ctrl+alt+del a few times but all I got was the Hourglass Cursor. I *could* move the Winamp window around and appear to click on things but nothing happened.

Somebody I know told me the crazy HDD grinding was probably just the System Restore doing something.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Sounds even more like the driver crashed.