Hello friend, thank you for welcoming me. First off, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "process behind your motherboard instantBoot feature". I am using a premium motherboard with the x58 chipset from Asrock. The information about this board can be seen here on their official page. "http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=X58 SuperComputer" Make sure to highlight everything inside the quotes and not the quotes themselves. Even though there is a space before " SuperComputer" it is indeed part of the link. "ASRock InstantBoot" is a feature of supported Asrock motherboards that promise to boot your computer in 4 seconds or less. I am not completely sure how they achieve this but to my understanding from observation after installing the InstantBoot software then enabling it. When you click Shutdown. The computer first reboots, it shows the InstantBoot screen explaining it will reboot once before shutting down then shutdown. It appears to me that it first reboots the computer to refresh your computer then likely closes a bunch of safe processes, probably based on a list Asrock maintains that know which processes are safe to shut off, since the computer uses significantly less memory when it does so, then puts the computer into some kind of hybrid sleep/ power saving mode. Turning off the CPU/ fans etc. This next part I will explain has to do with remote desktop but I will to clarify one point first. I used to use my computer without a password because I find it more convenient but now I need my computer to be more secure and private. I use remote desktop from my iPad all around the world to have access to my supercomputer. To have remote desktop enabled you must have a password on the user account as you probably already know. So I enabled Auto-login to maintain my convenience also because InstantBoot will not work with a user account password since after it reboots it also goes into the user account before it can finish it's task to put the computer to sleep. For those two reasons I allowed auto-login because otherwise after clicking shutdown the computer would get stuck at the login screen and would not turn off without first entering the password. That was a major annoyance since when I hit the turn off button I generally want to walk right out and be on with my day. This by the way completely mitigates the whole purpose of the "ASRock InstantBoot" feature. The point of it because to save time. If I now have to wait for the computer to reboots and type in my password before I can walk away there really is no point. Even with a password on my account when I press the power button on my computer it indeed takes less than four seconds to my desktop. Which I really like but I was a little annoyed at Asrock. It seemed a little like false advertising if you understand what I've been trying to explain. Rebooting to put the computer into a form of sleep to be able to turn the computer back on in seconds is not instant. If you still don't understand then, instant would be from a no power state and no rebooting when shutting down. While InstantBoot requires AC power to be on. Moving on, recapping, first I had no password on my user account, when I setup remote desktop I created one then the password screen prevented InstantBoot from functioning. So I enabled Auto-login, which was also more convenient than typing in a password each time, also if InstantBoot had worked with a password enabled, it would still take a lot of time to load the desktop fully. So, if I could get Windows to auto-login to the account so the desktop is already loaded, then put the compute to sleep and then on resume require a password would be my goal. As for the attached images, did you try copy and pasting them into your web browser without the <img> tags. It appears that this Windows forum does not support html tags. http://img814.imageshack.us/img814/9000/po1x.png http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/5537/po2n.png I am here to learn Windows. Wish me luck.

Windows 7 x64 SP1 Asrock x58 Supercomputer motherboard 4GB of RAM 64GB SSD (Boot Drive) 1.5TB 3.0TB Hello, I am having this problem, Windows forgets my power settings on reboot and does not ask for a password. I select > Change settings that are currently unavailable <img>http://img814.imageshack.us/img814/9000/po1x.png</img> Keep in mind I have admin access to this computer. Then I select Yes on > Require a password on wakeup <img>http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/5537/po2n.png</img> When I press sleep, and then resume I get the password screen. If I then reboot, and I have ASRock InstantBoot installed, so it reboots and then puts the computer into some kind of advanced sleep mode. And I also have automatic logon enabled so I can use remote desktop since I need a password enabled and ASRock InstantBoot doesn't go into sleep automatically if auto-login isn't enabled "How to turn on automatic logon in Windows 7" this article from this forum. Please assist me in resolving my power options problems. If you need further information please ask and I will provide it right away. Hello I am new here!

hello dear friend, first of all check what is the process behind your motherboard instantBoot feature. can you tel me more about your motherboard ? for remote desktop connection you need to have a password. I think Remote desktop and auto login made this problem. you need to disable one of above feature or you will able to manage it. i'll try to help if you can provide more information about your InstantBoot feature thanks by the way I can't see your attached imagesU.L Ranmal

Hello friend, thank you for welcoming me. First off, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "process behind your motherboard instantBoot feature". I am using a premium motherboard with the x58 chipset from Asrock. The information about this board can be seen here on their official page. "http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=X58 SuperComputer" Make sure to highlight everything inside the quotes and not the quotes themselves. Even though there is a space before " SuperComputer" it is indeed part of the link. "ASRock InstantBoot" is a feature of supported Asrock motherboards that promise to boot your computer in 4 seconds or less. I am not completely sure how they achieve this but to my understanding from observation after installing the InstantBoot software then enabling it. When you click Shutdown. The computer first reboots, it shows the InstantBoot screen explaining it will reboot once before shutting down then shutdown. It appears to me that it first reboots the computer to refresh your computer then likely closes a bunch of safe processes, probably based on a list Asrock maintains that know which processes are safe to shut off, since the computer uses significantly less memory when it does so, then puts the computer into some kind of hybrid sleep/ power saving mode. Turning off the CPU/ fans etc. This next part I will explain has to do with remote desktop but I will to clarify one point first. I used to use my computer without a password because I find it more convenient but now I need my computer to be more secure and private. I use remote desktop from my iPad all around the world to have access to my supercomputer. To have remote desktop enabled you must have a password on the user account as you probably already know. So I enabled Auto-login to maintain my convenience also because InstantBoot will not work with a user account password since after it reboots it also goes into the user account before it can finish it's task to put the computer to sleep. For those two reasons I allowed auto-login because otherwise after clicking shutdown the computer would get stuck at the login screen and would not turn off without first entering the password. That was a major annoyance since when I hit the turn off button I generally want to walk right out and be on with my day. This by the way completely mitigates the whole purpose of the "ASRock InstantBoot" feature. The point of it because to save time. If I now have to wait for the computer to reboots and type in my password before I can walk away there really is no point. Even with a password on my account when I press the power button on my computer it indeed takes less than four seconds to my desktop. Which I really like but I was a little annoyed at Asrock. It seemed a little like false advertising if you understand what I've been trying to explain. Rebooting to put the computer into a form of sleep to be able to turn the computer back on in seconds is not instant. If you still don't understand then, instant would be from a no power state and no rebooting when shutting down. While InstantBoot requires AC power to be on. Moving on, recapping, first I had no password on my user account, when I setup remote desktop I created one then the password screen prevented InstantBoot from functioning. So I enabled Auto-login, which was also more convenient than typing in a password each time, also if InstantBoot had worked with a password enabled, it would still take a lot of time to load the desktop fully. So, if I could get Windows to auto-login to the account so the desktop is already loaded, then put the compute to sleep and then on resume require a password would be my goal. As for the attached images, did you try copy and pasting them into your web browser without the <img> tags. It appears that this Windows forum does not support html tags. http://img814.imageshack.us/img814/9000/po1x.png http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/5537/po2n.png I am hear to learn Windows. Wish me luck.

Hi DogFire, Thanks for the post! Based on your description, it seems when you select ASRock InstantBoot, by default it set wake up without a password. I suspect when you choose this ASRock InstantBoot power plan, it overrides the original one and you cannot change it. Since I cannot test this on my side, I suggest you contact ASRock support for further information. Regards, Miya This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. | Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

hi dogfire, sorry for the late reply. today I checked your post. i saw that you are replied to my post im not a position to give you an answer, you better check with motherboard manufacturer. i cant exactly say its because of your motherboard. it can be another problem. may be a software problem. your problem is out of my scope. hope that you will get rid of your supercomupter problem soon cheersU.L Ranmal