Vista sleep mode woes.

David41 · 20 Sep 2009 at 00:54

Hi, sometimes when I go to shut down my computer I accidentally click on sleep. The problem is that once it goes into sleep I can't get out of it no matter what I try, the only way to get out of it is to hold down the power button until the system turns off, which isn't good for the computer.

Any suggestions?

randal · 20 Sep 2009 at 00:56

What mobo have you got? I had this with a Gigabyte board, suspending would work but when you woke it back up the fans spun at full pelt and nothing else happened. Never sorted it in the end, but I'd love to know what caused it. Think it was software as it didn't do it after a fresh install.

David41 · 20 Sep 2009 at 00:58

Asus p5q-e, I'd usually just live with it because I hardly ever did it, but that's twice in the last few days and it's really starting to annoy me.

marc2003 · 20 Sep 2009 at 01:05

if you go into the advanced power options in control panel, you can change the icon on the start menu to shut down instead of sleep by default. that should stop you putting it to sleep accidentally.

David41 · 20 Sep 2009 at 12:33

Thanks, much appreciated.

Pho · 20 Sep 2009 at 16:02

Which service pack are you using? I believe SP1/2 fixed some sleep problems.

Also try updating all of your drivers (video, sound, chipset etc) as they tend to cause sleep problems. Don't suppose you have any Hauppauge cards do you? They gave me problems.

jagdesign · 20 Sep 2009 at 17:12

I've got exactly the same problem with this system http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-079-OE

Goes in to sleep automatically after 1 hour (gonna disable this), I move my mouse/click/press a key/whatever. All the fans and HDD spin up but I'm getting no video output. Pretty annoying.

Faustus · 20 Sep 2009 at 23:22

I never use anything other than sleep as it makes computing a breeze - I love 5 second boot times and the power consumption is next to nothing. If your PC has a problem with waking up after Vista Sleep then check power settings in BIOS as that's the usual problem - I have had the same issue on my older PC but altering BIOS setting cured it.

Dappy · 20 Sep 2009 at 23:31

For some reason, ever since I installed Vista SP2, I loose my usb keyboard and mouse when resuming from sleep by using the power button. Can't do anything, so have to push the reset button.

Participant · 21 Sep 2009 at 12:11

I had this with a Gigabyte system. I never solved it so in the end, I gave up and moved to Windows 7. Sleep mode now works perfectly with exactly the same hardware so I guess there was a driver conflict or issue somewhere.

bledd · 21 Sep 2009 at 12:15

this fixed my Asus sleep issues (on multiple motherboards)

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18018281&highlight=startername_bledd

my gigabyte used to do a reboot loop, because my ram voltage was too low, I set it to +0.4v and now it's flawless

Phil2008 · 21 Sep 2009 at 18:09

If you have probs with sleep, its down to drivers prob gfx card drivers

Senture · 21 Sep 2009 at 21:42

Had the same issue with my Gigabyte P35 DS4. They fixed it with Vista SP2 but before then, I changed HPET to 64 bit and it fixed it