Sleep doesn't work properly at all

[Peter Lawton]

I've got Vista x64 on a Toshiba P100 laptop and when it comes out of sleep
some devices don't work.

The Conexant HD audio doesn't play any sounds until after I re-boot,
although Vista seems to think the device is working fine.

The Intel PRO 100 NIC seems to lose it's IP address shortly after returning
from sleep and I can't see anything on the network until after I do a
"IPCONFIG /renew"

I've tried both the MS drivers and the manufacturers drivers for both the
NIC and sound and the same thing happens with both.

Is this sleep problem a general Vista issue, something to do with this
Toshiba laptop, or have I set something up wrong?

The "sleep" function would be very handy, but it's unusable for me at the
moment

Peter Lawton

 

[Guest]

This is true for many of the posters here. I think Sleep is a candidate for
SP1. There is one solution for the nic. This comes from MS: Open the
properties of the network card, Power Management, select 'Allow windows to
turn off to save power.' This works by allowing Windows to reconnect when
waking. I have not found a disappearing hardware solution yet. On a desktop
it's easy to just never use Sleep, but that's not feasible with a laptop. You
can try not substituting Hibernate for sleep--set all power options to
Sleep-Never, and then use Hibernation instead by settings the lid and power
button to Hibernate instead. This seems to remember all the hardware and
wakes the NIC and reconnects. Worth a try until SP1.

 

[Peter Lawton]

Thanks, I'll have to wait for SP1 before I use sleep then I think, pity as
it's so much faster than a cold boot or hibernation

I think I've found a patch for the network problem, but that's not going to
solve the sound missing issue.

For anyone else with the network breaking after sleep there's a patch here,
but as usual in their awkward non-customer friendly fashion you're going to
have to go through the pain of ringing up an MS representative in a
different continent, after the holiday period, write down a 20odd character
reference, get transferred to someone else, read out the damn reference etc
etc - Why can't they just let people download the patches to fix their damn
broken software without all the hassle ...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933872/en-us

Peter Lawton