Sleep not working as it did

[Jeff]

When I first installed Vista (Home Premium), I enabled sleep mode and noticed
when sleep was invoked my computer got quiet (I could hear the drive and fan
going quiet) and would notice the light indicating my computer on my wireless
network router would go out. That was great! However, now when I invoke
sleep, I just notice the monitor going blank, that's it. Any ideas would
welcome. Thanks!

 

[Paul Smith]

When I first installed Vista (Home Premium), I enabled sleep mode and
noticed
when sleep was invoked my computer got quiet (I could hear the drive and
fan
going quiet) and would notice the light indicating my computer on my
wireless
network router would go out. That was great! However, now when I invoke
sleep, I just notice the monitor going blank, that's it. Any ideas would
welcome. Thanks!

Sounds like the computer could be setup to go into 'Away Mode' if you've
setup Media Center it probably made this change.

Check in Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> Power Options -> Change
when the computer sleeps -> Change advanced power settings -> Multimedia
settings. From here you can allow the computer to sleep, not sleep (away
mode), or not idle to sleep.

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
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[Jeff]

Thanks Paul. This seems to have fixed my issue. My machine now truly goes
to sleep - not just the monitor.

Jeff

 

[Erndog105]

I also wanted to let you know your suggestion also fixed my problem. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.