Sleep is a hit or miss

[brijesh]

I have searched the archives of this forum and Google and have not
been able to find a solution to my problem. On my computer, Sleep
worked fine for a few days after the install. But then one day my
computer started hanging on sleep command some of the times. I think
it was some Windows Update that did it but I could be wrong about
that. Anyway, what happens now is that when I reboot my machine, I
can sleep it once. When I wake it up, the next time I try to make it
sleep, it switches the monitor off and then hangs. (After a very long
time, it reboots.)

Windows thinks of this as an unexpected shutdown since I have to power
down the machine when it hangs. Windows logs it faithfully as a user
error. I guess it reports to Microsoft the same thing.

I have tried disabling the (unused) D-Link wireless PCI card. I have
tried the POWERCFG command with DEVICEQUERY and it tells me that S1
and S3 are supported (thats why sleep works some of the time and used
to work everytime). I have disabled mouse and keyboard's ability to
wake the computer from sleep (another POWERCFG command) but that
didn't help either. I have also changed the advance power settings
for Multimedia and USB even though I suspected that was not causing
the problem (since it works some of the times).

None of this has helped. Does anyone have any more ideas? Thanks in
advance.

 

[Joe Guidera]

Unfortunately no. There are a number of issues outstanding with sleep and
hibernate. While there are several hotfixes out there for specific issues
none have resolved the issue on my T60P (and thus have been un-installed).
I just hope the BSOD dump files I've uploaded will help resolve the issue.

J

 

[brijesh]

Unfortunately no. There are a number of issues outstanding with sleep and
hibernate. While there are several hotfixes out there for specific issues
none have resolved the issue on my T60P (and thus have been un-installed).
I just hope the BSOD dump files I've uploaded will help resolve the issue.

J

Hmm.. appreciate the response. Meanwhile I tried enabling Hibernate
so I could use it just like WinXP. But unfortunately, Vista tells me
that it cannot turn on Hibernate since my BIOS does not support it
(S4). Which is weird because in WinXP I used it all the time.

Rant: It is a little sad to see MS turn off features that worked well
in XP without fully testing the features they were building from
scratch.

 

[Joe Guidera]

Try running an elevated command prompt and issue the command

powercfg -availablesleepstates

If it reports that S4 is unavailable that's either A) because your BIOS is
reporting it as unavailable or B) a driver is needed to properly enable
support for it on your motherboard (as was the case under Windows XP)

In any case I would expect to see that S3 (hybrid hibernate/sleep) as
available.

Joe

 

[brijesh]

Problem solved!

I spent three hours last night getting rid of a Network Connection
created by a botched install of Nortel VPN client. The problem was
that it was a hidden connection not showing up in my n/w connections
list but it was shown in the results of ipconfig /all command.

After much fiddling I found a "view hidden" option in Device Manager
that made the n/w connection visible (alongwith a bunch others) and
allowed me to disable it. Now the machine goes into sleep every time.

Thanks for your help, Joe.