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    Aspire 5920 crashes after sleep mode...

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by aurora35, Aug 11, 2007.

  1. aurora35

    aurora35 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I always find my 5920 crashes after putting it on a sleep mode (closing the lid) there's only black screen and no matter what I do, it keeps like that.. Is there any fix to this problem? I'm using win vista home premium.. thx..
     
    aurora35, Aug 11, 2007
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  2. acera

    acera Notebook Enthusiast

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    yeah the same with me. i have to switch off my acer aspire 5920 with the button and after couple of times windows said fatal error so i had to reinstall. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP!
     
    acera, Aug 11, 2007
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  3. darkspark88

    darkspark88 Notebook Evangelist

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    I dont think its crashed, the screen simply does not turn on, probably to do with the Nvdia drivers.

    Basically if you close the lid, and instantly open it again, before the system enters hibernation, the screen will not turn back on whilst the machine fails to enter hibernation.

    If however, you close the lid, and wait for the fan to stop spinning, and the computer to go silent, you will find that the power button starts flashing orange, meaning it has entered sleep mode. You can then press a buton to wake up the notebook.

    Its a strange problem, but should be fixed in the future. Just make sure you don't open the lid sraight after closing it, or the screen may not turn back on.
     
    darkspark88, Aug 11, 2007
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  4. bigspin

    bigspin My Kind Of Place

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    Maybe this updates will help you
    Error message when you wake Windows Vista from sleep

    Official update is available that improves the compatibility and reliability of Windows Vista KB938194

    Official update is available that improves the performance and reliability of Windows Vista KB938979
     
    bigspin, Aug 11, 2007
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    valpal95 Newbie

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    I had this problem, too, and I read the manual and it didn't help at all. However, through experimentation, I found out that to wake the Acer from sleep, you press Fn+F4 (that's also how you send it to sleep). It would have been helpful to read that in the manual.
     
    valpal95, Jan 27, 2008
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  6. anthony99

    anthony99 Notebook Consultant

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    yes i had this problem too

    i solved it by downloading a driver from laptopvideo2go

    think it was 163.xx not quite sure which but it did the trick
     
    anthony99, Jan 27, 2008
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  7. Patrick Y.

    Patrick Y. Go Newbs! NBR Reviewer

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    Most likely driver/vista problem. Try disabling readyboost and unplugging any external devices before going to sleep.
     
    Patrick Y., Jan 28, 2008
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  8. klas

    klas Notebook Deity

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    I had the same problem with sleep mode getting BSOD, I narrowed it down to issue with my VBox ATSC tuner and Nvidia drivers. If I didn't have ATSC tuner plugged in, it worked fine. I ended up selling and getting different ATSC tuner that had hardware decoder builtin and better drivers at that time.
     
    klas, Jan 28, 2008
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  9. rodman

    rodman Notebook Enthusiast

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    had the same problem...this is my solution:

    GO TO DEVICE MANAGER -> NETWORK ADAPTERS -> BROADCOM NETLINK.....(IF YOU HAVE A LAN INTERNET CONECTION) -> ADVANCED -> WAKE UP CAPABILITIES -> NONE ....AT POWER MANAGEMENT TAB I'VE CHECKED THE "ALOW THE COMPUTER TO TURN OFF THIS DEVICE TO SAVE POWER" OPTION...
    THIS MADE MY VISTA SLEEP WORKING ...NO PROBLEMS TILL NOW
     
    rodman, Jan 29, 2008
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