Vista Won't Sleep

[Niall]

I've had Vista Home Premium on a new desktop PC for about 6 weeks now.
Instead of shutting down most of the time I have set it to sleep. In "Sleep"
the fan does not stop running and I doubt the hard drive stops spinning, the
light in the front of the computer does not flash but stays on, the keyboard
light stays on and the only effect "Sleep" seems to have is make me have to
reenter my password. When I do that "wakeup" there is no sound change and I
don't think my PC has ever really slept. I've tried all the configurations
in Power Options. I have no option to hibernate.
Any suggestions how to make Sleep work, or to enable hibernation?
Niall

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

The hybrid sleep feature and the hibernation feature in Windows Vista may
become unavailable after you use the Disk Cleanup Tool :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928897

 

[Pablo]

I had to set my mouse and keyboard not to "wake the computer" in Device
Manager.

 

[Niall]

I tried powercfg -h on and it didn't work. Then I found in another MS site
to set hibernate on enter powercfg.exe /hibernate on but that didn't work
either.
Somewhere else I read something about changing a setting in BIOS. Would that
possibly need to be done first?

 

[Pablo]

Did you try setting the keyboard and mouse "not to wake the computer"? I had
those exact same symptoms and changing that setting worked for me.

 

[Niall]

Thanks, Pablo. I'll try that if other things don't work, just because I
prefer to wake it up with the keyboard or mouse. How do you wake it up now?
I'll read Brink's tutorial now. Thanks Brink.
Niall

 

[Pablo]

The power button.

Thanks, Pablo. I'll try that if other things don't work, just because I
prefer to wake it up with the keyboard or mouse. How do you wake it up
now?
I'll read Brink's tutorial now. Thanks Brink.
Niall

 

[Niall]

Wow, Pablo, after so much frustration trying to get a defective Operating
System to work properly I went your route and fixed the problem in 1 minute
by disabling the mouse and keyboard from waking the computer. For the first
time ever I put the rascal to sleep.
In my toying around I also created the hibernation option the Start menu.
I'll see if hibernation works too now.
Thanks a lot. Niall

 

[Pablo]

Your welcome.

Wow, Pablo, after so much frustration trying to get a defective Operating
System to work properly I went your route and fixed the problem in 1
minute by disabling the mouse and keyboard from waking the computer. For
the first time ever I put the rascal to sleep.
In my toying around I also created the hibernation option the Start menu.
I'll see if hibernation works too now.
Thanks a lot. Niall

 

[Niall]

Hi Brink/Shawn,
Thanks a lot for the tutorial. It was really helpful. I could not believe
how much configuring had to be done to set Power Options to work.
Niall