Waking up my PC

[Daniel Royer]

When my PC (Vista home premium up to date) goes to sleep, I can wake it
up by:

1) Hitting the space bar or moving the mouse
2) If this doesn't work, pushing the power button lightly wakes it up

BUT

3) sometimes none of these things work, and I have to completely shut it
down and restart it.

The time it was asleep is roughly the same (overnight) in each case.

Any idea?


Daniel

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Daniel Royer
University of Geneva

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[John Hanley]

I had Vista sleep problems, but it is now resolved. What helped me
investigate the problem was realizing that, at one time, my system sleep
functioned normally, and then stopped working. I was able to pin down the
time period when it stopped working by reviewing the Event Viewer/Windows
Logs/System. Times when the system goes to sleep are signalled by an entry
that looks like: "Information 7/10/2007 10:29:24 AM Kernel-Power"; times
when the system resumes from sleep show this entry: "Information 7/10/2007
1:19:35 PM Power-Troubleshooter".
My logs go back to when I bought the computer in May, so I could verify when
the problem started. Perhaps an initial question for you is: has your
computer always had this problem or did it work ok at one time? Take a look
through your Event Viewer and see if it has ever worked, then see if you can
pin down when it may have changed.

In my case, I had inadvertently tried to install a piece of non-Vista-ready
software, which left artifacts that caused my sleep problems. After I
cleared that up, sleep became functional again. Hope this helps.

 

[KDE]

Many people have problems with vista resuming from sleep and/or hibernation.
Hopefully this is one of the things fixed in SP1.
there are a couple hotfixes available, http://itsvista.com/hotfixes/ but
none of them resolved my issues with waking (I'm having the exact same
issues you described).

 

[Daniel Royer]

* John Hanley wrote, On 27/09/2007 17:49:

I had Vista sleep problems, but it is now resolved. What helped me
investigate the problem was realizing that, at one time, my system sleep
functioned normally, and then stopped working. I was able to pin down the
time period when it stopped working by reviewing the Event Viewer/Windows
Logs/System. Times when the system goes to sleep are signalled by an entry
that looks like: "Information 7/10/2007 10:29:24 AM Kernel-Power"; times
when the system resumes from sleep show this entry: "Information 7/10/2007
1:19:35 PM Power-Troubleshooter".
My logs go back to when I bought the computer in May, so I could verify
when
the problem started. Perhaps an initial question for you is: has your
computer always had this problem or did it work ok at one time? Take a
look
through your Event Viewer and see if it has ever worked, then see if you
can
pin down when it may have changed.

In my case, I had inadvertently tried to install a piece of non-Vista-ready
software, which left artifacts that caused my sleep problems. After I
cleared that up, sleep became functional again. Hope this helps.

Thanks. I'll see if I can spot anything suspicious.

Daniel

 

[Daniel Royer]

* KDE wrote, On 27/09/2007 18:18:

Many people have problems with vista resuming from sleep and/or hibernation.
Hopefully this is one of the things fixed in SP1.
there are a couple hotfixes available, http://itsvista.com/hotfixes/ but
none of them resolved my issues with waking (I'm having the exact same
issues you described).

Guess we'll have to wait for SP1!!

Daniel

 

[forum.microsoft.com]

I heard ms released most of the updates that will be packaged in sp1, and
possibly all the critical ones.