Re: Problem with Vista's "sleep" function or me?

I have the same issues.
I have S3 enabled in my BIOS, did so when installing a clean copy of
Ultimate.
The system goes to sleep for any period of time, 5 seconds to an hour.
Then with the mouse turned off it starts back up without any interaction.
The same with the Wake from LAN.

This has to be a failure point in the system and hardware communication.
What can be done? I haven't a clue at this point.
This is an Intel 3 series board.

"koch" <koch.33ptr0@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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>
> Mark Conrad's post asking how to hack Vista to hibernate reminded me of
> a situation I encountered several months ago.
>
> Here's the gist of it: I put my laptop to sleep, packed it up into my
> backpack within a booq sleeve, and approximately 30 minutes later took
> it out of the backpack to use again. The problem was that my laptop had
> overheated during this relatively short period of time, and became so
> hot that I could smell burning plastic. Fortunately, I restarted the
> computer in time to get the fan going and there wasn't any permanent
> damage done.
>
> Question: what did I do wrong? Should I have NOT left my laptop in this
> state, enclosed, for this period of time? I assumed that Vista's "sleep"
> was the new "hibernate" and that it was safe to keep it in this state,
> certainly for 30 minutes or longer. I've subsequently avoided using
> sleep since, but I would really like to start using this feature again.
>
>
> --
> koch