Sleep & hibernate mode trouble

[Dave Johnson]

Hi all

Is anyone else encountering the problem below?

I am running Vista RTM - whenever I try to use 'Sleep' or 'Hibernate', the
PC seems to enter low power / power down, but then resumes / powers up
immediately.

Obviously I can live with this little issue, but it niggles me that the
sleep button on my keyboard is effectively useless!

Dave

 

[Tim Draper]

Hi all

Is anyone else encountering the problem below?

I am running Vista RTM - whenever I try to use 'Sleep' or 'Hibernate', the
PC seems to enter low power / power down, but then resumes / powers up
immediately.

Obviously I can live with this little issue, but it niggles me that the
sleep button on my keyboard is effectively useless!

Dave

drivers have to support S3/hibernate mode. else you will encounter
issues like this, if they let you enter S3/hibernation at all.
are you using beta drivers for any hardware?

also, are there any unknown devices/troubled hardware in device manager?

 

[Paul Smith]

I am running Vista RTM - whenever I try to use 'Sleep' or 'Hibernate', the
PC seems to enter low power / power down, but then resumes / powers up
immediately.

Obviously I can live with this little issue, but it niggles me that the
sleep button on my keyboard is effectively useless!

Check in Power Options, Advanced and under Multimedia make sure the computer
is allowed to sleep or hibernate... Otherwise it enters "away mode" which
sounds a a little bit like you're describing.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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[Dave Johnson]

Hi Tim

Thanks for the quick reply.

I should have said - my motherboard is an Asus P4P800-E Deluxe. The only
unknown device is my Lexmark (bah!) printer, but my Intel and Promise SATA
drivers are from XP...

I can maybe understand sleep not working properly due the above drivers, but
doesn't hibernate power down the system?

Cheers
Dave

 

[Dave Johnson]

I'll give this a try and report back to the group.

Thanks
Dave

 

[nick]

Paul, I experienced the same issue as described in the Dave Johnson
message.Took your advise and that fixed my problem. THANK YOU.

 

[Dave Johnson]

I'm glad somebody benefitted from Paul's advice Nick. Unfortunately, I
didn't. Ah well...

 

[Guest]

I wish this worked aswell , and this annoying sleep issue has been present
for the hp nx6125 since pre-beta2 can some one just fix the issue

 

[Guest]

Hello, I too also have a problem with hibernate, I have an ASUS M2N-E
motherboard and am Running Vista Business RTM.

What happens is when i choose to hibernate my pc doesn't power down, it
appears to reboot and when it comes back up i get a message telling me
windows was not shut down properly then if i choose start windows normally it
boots into windows fine, this happens when i try to sleep to.

When i first installed vista there was a bad ACPI driver in the device
manager, I tried updating this driver from mcrosoft and it appeared to work
and the unrecognized item went away, I suspect my problems have something to
do with this, can anyone tell me how i can get drivers for my
chipset/motherboard that will work in vista? will the XP drivers work?

 

[Guest]

I have a new Dell Inspiron 520 And only recently has it exhibited turning
back on after try to put it to sleep. The only thing I installed was MS 6.0.
I don't have anything else on it like toolbars, desktops, ect.. It was
working now it doesn't.