Windows Power Management is responsible for overseeing the power-saving features of your PCs hardware, as well as automatically turning your PC off when you shutdown. When things go wrong with Power Management your PC may crash or not turn off properly, or even more worryingly not start up in the first place. Windows manages the power your PC uses with a combination of hardware features provided by the motherboard, BIOS and the Hardware Abstraction Layer. A problem or misconfiguration at any one of these levels can cause power management faults that prevent Windows from controlling your hardware properly, and can lead to serious crashes. In this article, well show you how to repair the most common Windows power management errors, to get your PC back up and running in no time.
Category: Troubleshooting
Issue: 2009 Issue 2 March/April
Operating Systems: XP, Vista, 7
Article Reference: P11