Vista {Insert power option here} causes Reboot

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I've had this issue for several weeks now since I installed Vista.

My computer simply does not do as I ask.

I tell it to shut down, it reboots.

I tell it to hibernate, it does so, then reboots.

I tell it to Stand by and that works.

BUT, I need Hibernate to work.

Does anyone have any suggestions?
 
cjsoftuk said:
I've had this issue for several weeks now since I installed Vista.

My computer simply does not do as I ask.

I tell it to shut down, it reboots.

I tell it to hibernate, it does so, then reboots.

I tell it to Stand by and that works.

BUT, I need Hibernate to work.

Does anyone have any suggestions?
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This is very often a driver issue. You say that you installed Vista -
was it a clean install or an upgrade? Did you also install all the Vista
drivers for your hardware? If you have a laptop, did you also install
any laptop-specific software for Vista?

More information on what you did and details of your computer will help
us give you focused troubleshooting.


Malke
 
Malke said:
This is very often a driver issue. You say that you installed Vista -
was it a clean install or an upgrade? Did you also install all the Vista
drivers for your hardware? If you have a laptop, did you also install
any laptop-specific software for Vista?

More information on what you did and details of your computer will help
us give you focused troubleshooting.


Malke
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This was a clean install.

Vista has installed drivers for everything EXCEPT my Dell OEM Soundblaster
LIVE! 5.1 Game Port, which does not have drivers (as it is old) which I have
disabled.

Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
Asus A8V-VM Motherboard
Maxtor 250GB SATA2 Hard Disk
Maxtor 120GB IDE Hard Disk
NVidia Geforce 7600GS graphics
Dell OEM Creative SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 sound card (using XP drivers...)
Generic CD/DVD RW drive
Dual Monitor (DGM L1721, Dell E151FP)
Canon i560 Printer
Desktop PC
 
cjsoftuk said:
This was a clean install.

Vista has installed drivers for everything EXCEPT my Dell OEM Soundblaster
LIVE! 5.1 Game Port, which does not have drivers (as it is old) which I have
disabled.

Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
Asus A8V-VM Motherboard
Maxtor 250GB SATA2 Hard Disk
Maxtor 120GB IDE Hard Disk
NVidia Geforce 7600GS graphics
Dell OEM Creative SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 sound card (using XP drivers...)
Generic CD/DVD RW drive
Dual Monitor (DGM L1721, Dell E151FP)
Canon i560 Printer
Desktop PC
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So this isn't a Dell, you just have an old SB Live from some older Dell.
From what I've read in the newsgroups about power issues, the problem
with power options is often caused by problems with drivers. I haven't
had any similar issues with my own Vista installs, but that doesn't mean
anything since of course all the hardware is different.

Since you're using the default drivers that came with Vista, I think I'd
visit the various mftrs.' websites and download any current drivers for
Vista. Certainly you should make a System Restore point or use imaging
software to back up before you install. Only install one thing at a
time, testing after each install. The drivers would also include those
from Asus for your motherboard and see if Asus has a BIOS update while
you're there.

Malke
 
Issue is resolved.

I enabled ACPI2 in BIOS and re-plugged my USB mouse to a PS/2 port and it
works like a beauty (Sleep still doesn't work, but I suspect that's a diff
issue.)
 
cjsoftuk said:
Issue is resolved.

I enabled ACPI2 in BIOS and re-plugged my USB mouse to a PS/2 port and it
works like a beauty (Sleep still doesn't work, but I suspect that's a diff
issue.)
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A most satisfactory workaround. I can't help you with the sleep since I
never use it on any of my Windows machines but you might still want to
get updated drivers. That might solve that particular issue.

In any case, I'm glad you got things working. Thanks for taking the time
to post your solution.


Malke
 
A most satisfactory workaround. I can't help you with the sleep since I
never use it on any of my Windows machines but you might still want to
get updated drivers. That might solve that particular issue.

In any case, I'm glad you got things working. Thanks for taking the time
to post your solution.


Malke
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Frankly I would be grateful if my computer wanted to stay on all of
the time without intervention. My vista install is very nice but in
XP on most homebuilt machines I made, asleep or dozy was the natural
order of things...so quite a nice change really.
 
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