Vista & Sleep

NickM · 20 Mar 2007 at 13:44

Everytime I try to resume my computer from sleep mode Vista crashes and restarts or the montior just stays in power saver mode and I have to force a reboot. This time it told me it was a blue screen related to my nvidia 8800gts (I have the latest drivers installed). Is there something I can do to fix this?

Slinwagh · 20 Mar 2007 at 15:12

I get that sometimes, other it wakes up fine.

You can just edit the power setting as a quick and dirty get around and tell it no to sleep.

something daft already!! · 20 Mar 2007 at 15:51

I am able to sleep Vista without issue and I use the Nvidia beta drivers 101.41. I found the 100.65 drivers also worked ok with sleep. I would guess some drivers are not interacting well together, have you got the latest drivers for your Mobo? Have you checked your RAM for issues? I have found Vista very picky when it comes to memory.

Slinwagh · 20 Mar 2007 at 16:01

howiepoohs said:
I am able to sleep Vista without issue and I use the Nvidia beta drivers 101.41. I found the 100.65 drivers also worked ok with sleep. I would guess some drivers are not interacting well together, have you got the latest drivers for your Mobo? Have you checked your RAM for issues? I have found Vista very picky when it comes to memory.

101.41 is meant fix the issue but WoW kept crashing with that set of drivers.

I am running Vista Ultimate 64bit.

NickM · 21 Mar 2007 at 11:24

Well it resumed from sleep ok this morning, how can I find out what version of the nvidia drivers I am running?

something daft already!! · 21 Mar 2007 at 13:37

If you downloaded them form Nvidia then the file you downloaded will tell you. EG 97.46 or 100.65 in the file name. If not, then you will be running the M$ drivers and these are fairly rubbish when it comes to games etc. Its a bit of a suck it and see with driver at the mo, if it aint broken, dont fix it is the best attitude. Changing your drivers now may mess it up. You can get 101.46 from nvidia.com under drivers, scroll the page down and you can then click the link for the beta drivers.

bikes · 21 Mar 2007 at 15:16

^ or just run dxdiag

NickM · 21 Mar 2007 at 17:23

I've installed 100.65, i'll see how it goes.

NickM · 23 Mar 2007 at 14:00

It resumed from sleep, worked fine for a few hours, then as soon as i tried to play a video in wmp it crashed.

something daft already!! · 23 Mar 2007 at 14:26

Hi, what actually crashed, Vista or Media player?

NickM · 23 Mar 2007 at 15:20

vista, my computer rebooted its self.

rolandrat · 23 Mar 2007 at 15:35

101.41 although still cr@p have solved any 'sleep' functions for me, all prior drivers have had probems, worst being 100.65 and not putting screen back on and crashing etc.

something daft already!! · 23 Mar 2007 at 16:29

NickM said:
vista, my computer rebooted its self.

Very strange, possibly a codec issue as it was ok till you ran media player? Come on Nvidia get those drivers out there!

Faustus · 23 Mar 2007 at 20:32

I well understand how Hibernate works as I use it on my Laptop all the time. However, sleep and my Desktop is another story. I have tried sleep mode - is that supposed to be environmentally friendly? My printer is still active, my computers fans are still whirring away and my speaker system is still on. Added to this if I use Sleep or Hibernate when the PC starts up I can't connect to the Internet - it seems my ADSL/wireless router cant find the IP address and I have to reboot anyway in order to connect to the Internet. Also Microsoft have spent billions developing Vista, could they not have provided shut down icons as with XP instead of the drop down menu with sleep always being the first option? It seems to me that Vista was developed with the Laptop in mind and not as a Destop operating system. :mad:

NickM · 24 Mar 2007 at 12:47

ok, this time when i resumed from sleep it worked for a few mins then crashed while i was using outlook :confused:

. When it restarted it had "windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown" like last time.
From the details page:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 2057

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 116
BCP1: 8742BB90
BCP2: 8C0F36C0
BCP3: 00000000
BCP4: 00000002
OS Version: 6_0_6000
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 256_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini032407-01.dmp
C:\Users\Nick\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-51500-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Users\Nick\AppData\Local\Temp\WERD512.tmp.version.txt

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jeffa123 · 24 Mar 2007 at 18:02

Sounds a bit like a Codec conflict to me. Try loading WMP11 and restoring the default settings. Exit and reboot. Then try to open the file you want to play from WMP. If there is a Codec conflict is will show here or it will prompt you asking for the appropriate codec.
Funnily enough this is the most common problem. WinXP Codecs trying to be used for DX10 output which equals failure or phase adjust which your 8800 drivers cannot yet deal with. So the display defaults and reboots.