Vista doesn't sleep properly

growse · 4 Dec 2008 at 00:05

In the past, whenever I've hit sleep, Vista has happily gone to sleep and turned all the power, disks and fans off with it. However, since a few weeks ago, it refuses to sleep - the monitor goes off, but I can see the disk activity lights whirring away and nothing happens. Worse, it doesn't come out of it when I try to wake it.

Is this issue likely to be Vista or my BIOS that's being funny?

6thElement · 4 Dec 2008 at 04:30

I've newly installed Vista a couple of weeks ago and have this problem, never had it with XP64 :/

benjo · 4 Dec 2008 at 05:22

I think you need to allow your computer to sleep whilst media sharing. It's a setting in the power options.

Control Panel > Hardware & Sound > Power Options > Change Plan Settings > Change advanced settings > Scroll to the bottom > Multimedia Settings > Allow computer to sleep

Always worked for me

Jed Shields · 4 Dec 2008 at 08:41

benjo said:
I think you need to allow your computer to sleep whilst media sharing. It's a setting in the power options.

Sorry to hijack. Do you mean that it can sleep until another PC on the network tries to access files on that PC?

zytok · 4 Dec 2008 at 11:11

benjo said:
I think you need to allow your computer to sleep whilst media sharing. It's a setting in the power options.

Control Panel > Hardware & Sound > Power Options > Change Plan Settings > Change advanced settings > Scroll to the bottom > Multimedia Settings > Allow computer to sleep

Always worked for me

why is this important? I have issues when streaming video to my PS3 where the file stops after around half an hour saying that a network error has occured. Is this related to Vista power settings?

benjo · 4 Dec 2008 at 15:01

Jed Shields said:
Sorry to hijack. Do you mean that it can sleep until another PC on the network tries to access files on that PC?

I believe so yes

I had the same problem as the OP, and changed this setting and never had a problem.

zytok said:
why is this important? I have issues when streaming video to my PS3 where the file stops after around half an hour saying that a network error has occured. Is this related to Vista power settings?

It might be, but I'm not sure. I've only had experience with it preventing the computer from entering sleep.