Last slept three days ago

[bartman]

After spending weeks trying to get Vista Home Premium to sleep on its own I
finally had it working like it should. I could force it to sleep if I wanted
to, but it would also sleep after it had reached the pre-set period of
inactivity.

Three days ago it has stopped sleeping after any inactivity. What it does
now is go to screen saver (as it should), turns of the monitors after that
(as it should), but still remains powered up with the fans and hard drive
working away. I can still tell it to sleep and it works just fine.

Now, "normally" I can wake it by moving the mouse, but since it has got into
its head not to work properly that doesn't work unless I initially forced it
to sleep. Instead, the monitors remain off and I have to press and hold the
power button to get it to turn off then restart it. It comes back with the
message saying "windows is resuming" and everything seems to be intact as it
it slept normally.

The thing is, there is NOTHING new between now and four days ago when it
worked. Nothing has been installed or changed. I even went to one of the
check-points three days ago and restored to that point and it still doesn't
work.

This O/S is maddening. What the heck has changed in Vista's mind to produce
this strange operation? I seem to spend more time investigating why things
in Vista don't work than actually working. It is becoming very frustating.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Bart

 

[ned]

This O/S is maddening. What the heck has changed in Vista's mind to
produce
this strange operation? I seem to spend more time investigating why
things
in Vista don't work than actually working. It is becoming very
frustating.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Bart

I don't know if this will fix your problem but I have a brand new HP
computer with Vista on it and after hitting the sleep button it would wake
up after a minute or so. The solution I found(dont't remember the web site)
was to Goto Control Panel, Device Mananger and Network Adapters, right click
on my network card - goto properties, then Power Management ... uncheck
allow this device to wake the computer.

 

[bartman]

I don't know if this will fix your problem but I have a brand new HP
computer with Vista on it and after hitting the sleep button it would wake
up after a minute or so. The solution I found(dont't remember the web site)
was to Goto Control Panel, Device Mananger and Network Adapters, right click
on my network card - goto properties, then Power Management ... uncheck
allow this device to wake the computer.

Thanks. I found that too during the intitial phase of not getting it to
work and it is set properly.

Like I said. Nothing has changed in the last three days it just decided to
stop working during that time. I am beginning to think that Vista has become
the first true AI. It's just unfortunate it is such an annoying personality.

Bart