{"id":474,"date":"2018-03-07T13:55:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T13:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/?p=474"},"modified":"2018-03-07T13:55:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T13:55:11","slug":"dell-xps-8910-wont-wake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/2018\/03\/07\/dell-xps-8910-wont-wake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell XPS 8910 Won&#8217;t Wake Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Dell-XPS-8910-desktop-back-Compressed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-475\" src=\"http:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Dell-XPS-8910-desktop-back-Compressed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>I had a computer in the shop recently that wouldn\u2019t wake up from sleep mode using the keyboard or mouse. Some of the Dell XPS 8910 desktops have on-board graphics and a separate graphics card installed.<\/p>\n<p>If you have this problem, check to see if you have one of the models with the extra graphics card installed.\u00a0 If you do, you need to connect your monitor to the separate graphics card and not the on-board HDMI port.<\/p>\n<p>The HDMI port on-board will work for graphics, but when you put it to sleep and try to wake it, it\u2019s looking for a connection to the separate graphics card and it won\u2019t wake up. When you\u2019re connected directly to the extra graphics card this problem is solved.<\/p>\n<p>If you prefer to use the on-board graphics, you\u2019ll have to remove the extra graphics card that is installed in the PC. Then you won\u2019t have the problem of it not waking up with the keyboard or mouse. This is not recommended however, as it causes more stress to the motherboard.<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of other things you can try if this doesn&#8217;t solve your problem.\u00a0 Try this link.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dell.com\/community\/Desktops-General\/New-XPS-8910-tower-won-t-wake-up-after-sleep-from-keyboard-or\/td-p\/5129988\">Dell XPS 8910 Won&#8217;t Wake Up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a computer in the shop recently that wouldn\u2019t wake up from sleep mode using the keyboard or mouse. Some of the Dell XPS 8910 desktops have on-board graphics and a separate graphics card installed. If you have this problem, check to see if you have one of the models with the extra graphics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}