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bartman
I used to be able to put the computer to sleep by selecting "Sleep" at the
shut down. The monitors would go into standby mode and the PC would turn
off all the fans and be quiet except for a blinking LED on the front.
Moving the mouse would bring it back. Having the computer go to sleep on its
own didn't really ever work.
Then for a few days, the computer would sleep as it should have if left
alone and it could also be commanded to sleep and all was well with the world
for a brief time. Computer not running away, monitors on standby, just like
it should be....
....For about three days. Now it will sometimes sleep on its own, but good
luck telling it to sleep. It will put the monitors on standby, but it will
NEVER come back by moving the mouse, touching the keyboard or doing a dance
in front of it. It has to be powered down by holding the power button in for
5 seconds.
When restarted it says "resuming windows" and everything seems to come back
fine and how it was left OR it gives and error that Windows didn't shut down
properly the last time plus options to start in a different mode in which
case nothing is there as it was left.
So, what is going on? Will sleep ever work like it is supposed to or should
I just start powering down and doing a cold boot each day and save myself the
time of trying to figure out what this OS is doing from day to day that
screws things up?
I have read volumes of posts and articles about sleep and how sleep worked
perfectly in the Beta stage of Vista, but seems to have been totally fubared
by the time Vista was released on the rest of the world and post after post
about people losing sleep over their PC having no reliable sleep function.
I'd like to think these, along with the Apple commercials, are just overblown
exaggerations, but I'm really beginning to think Vista is all show and no
substance that was released at least two years too early.
What is up with sleep/hibernate or whatever else you want to call it?
Bart
shut down. The monitors would go into standby mode and the PC would turn
off all the fans and be quiet except for a blinking LED on the front.
Moving the mouse would bring it back. Having the computer go to sleep on its
own didn't really ever work.
Then for a few days, the computer would sleep as it should have if left
alone and it could also be commanded to sleep and all was well with the world
for a brief time. Computer not running away, monitors on standby, just like
it should be....
....For about three days. Now it will sometimes sleep on its own, but good
luck telling it to sleep. It will put the monitors on standby, but it will
NEVER come back by moving the mouse, touching the keyboard or doing a dance
in front of it. It has to be powered down by holding the power button in for
5 seconds.
When restarted it says "resuming windows" and everything seems to come back
fine and how it was left OR it gives and error that Windows didn't shut down
properly the last time plus options to start in a different mode in which
case nothing is there as it was left.
So, what is going on? Will sleep ever work like it is supposed to or should
I just start powering down and doing a cold boot each day and save myself the
time of trying to figure out what this OS is doing from day to day that
screws things up?
I have read volumes of posts and articles about sleep and how sleep worked
perfectly in the Beta stage of Vista, but seems to have been totally fubared
by the time Vista was released on the rest of the world and post after post
about people losing sleep over their PC having no reliable sleep function.
I'd like to think these, along with the Apple commercials, are just overblown
exaggerations, but I'm really beginning to think Vista is all show and no
substance that was released at least two years too early.
What is up with sleep/hibernate or whatever else you want to call it?
Bart