Vista sleep question

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Tony Linguini

On my Intel D955XCS system sleep powers down, and wakeup is fine.
On my Intel D875PBZ system sleep powers down the monitor and hard drive, but
the cpu and fan still runs. The bios is current. Is there something else I
should do, or is this the nature of the beast?
Thank you,
Tony
 
Vista's sleep system is pretty buggy from what I can tell. I suspect it was
designed for laptops, but not for some of the more modern desktop systems.
My Intel D965 based system went into XP's standby mode flawlessly, and used
no power when it was in that mode. I have had nothing but problems with
Vista's sleep mode: System would not wake up, system was still powering the
fans and CPU, etc. I finally switched to using Hibernate in Vista and have
had far fewer problems.

Hopefully MS will release fixes for the more modern desktop motherboards. I
suspect that the fact that they started developing Vista 5 years ago means
they have some newer hardware they aren't quite supporting properly yet. XP
SP2 has far better hardware support than Vista seems to have today.
 
Tony Linguini said:
On my Intel D955XCS system sleep powers down, and wakeup is fine.
On my Intel D875PBZ system sleep powers down the monitor and hard drive,
but the cpu and fan still runs. The bios is current. Is there something
else I should do, or is this the nature of the beast?
Thank you,
Tony
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Is the BIOS set to S3 instead of S1? It'll be somewhere in the power
options.

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