MacBook Pro 2008 (Penryn) problem with trackpad and stand-by in Windows

Hi,
I have the new MacBook Pro 2008 (Penryn), installed Windows XP and having 2 problems so far:
1) After the computer works for a while I can't go in to stand-by. It freezes in 'Preparing to stand-by' screen. I had some problems before with MacBook Pro 2007 model (2.4Ghz) and MacBook 2.0Ghz with stand-by. But than the USBs didn't work after coming out of stand-by. I found that the problem was with Bluetooth and disabling it or installing Widcomm drivers solved the problem.
2) When using the touchpad, every couple of minutes mouse pointer jumps to the furthermost left or right side of the screen.

This behavior is the same in BootCamp 2 and 2.1, also tried SP3 for XP, didn't help.
Any way to solve these problems? Do you have the same problems in Windows Vista, may be upgrade will solve this? Are there any other problems in Vista?

 

I've got zero problems running Vista Business 32-bit on my iMac.

 

I've no problem running visa business on my MBP 2008, but most of the time i run it using vmware fusion.

Anyway, most of the users here claims XP run better than Visa, so your problem might not get away by upgrading it though.

 

Yes, when I run Vista or XP in Parallels I have no glitches. Only when I run Windows with Boot Camp, so the problems are driver related. I read that some people install some different wireless card drivers for Broadcom wireless card, from Dell or HP for example, does it improve anything?

 

I just realized that my post about running Vista on my iMac is totally irrelevant, since your issue pertains to the MBP. One of the other guys in my group here at work is running Vista in Boot Camp on his MBP; I'll follow up with him and see if he's having any issues.

 

Lol, I was just thinking when I saw your first post how random that comment was. I was like "Eh? What? How does that help the OP". Haha.

 

Yeah, too early in the morning and hadn't had my coffee yet!!

 

I could not get my 802.11n card working in XP under bootcamp before the update. Now the NIC is fine but I too cannot standyby. Not exacly what you describe though, more like it makes it into standby if I force it then "wakes up" almost immadiately. If I allow the screensaver/powersaver to put it into standby it just never happens at all.

Everything is fine under Vista (Business-32) in VMWare, and XP Pro in VMWare, but in native mode XP wont sleep now.

Standby worked great until the Bootcamp update too. I thought about rolling it back but would rather have WiFi and no sleep than sleep and no WiFi.

 

I tried that to get my (2-week old MBP Pernyn) 802.11n card to work but it did not help at all. The newest BootCamp update fixed the NIC (see above post) but now I too am having the sleep problem in native mode XP-Pro.

 

Though, anyone here have trouble running games in bootcamp? (be it XP or Vista)

 

None, albeit slightly lower framerates than one would expect given the hardware. I think it is due to the many services required to be running perpetually. On a typical PC gaming-rig I'd strip it down to 18 or less.

 

I should probably add (since it was the original topic of this thread) that I do not have any trouble with standby functionality with XP-Pro and bootcamp. I have to remember to unplug all USB devices before entering standby though, since the disconnect wakes it up. I DID have some issues with hibernation and since standby works so well have pretty much stopped using hibernation altogether, frees up 4GB that way too.

I have read elsewhere that there are all kinds of trouble if you hibernate or standby with your bootcamp partition and then run the bootcamp install via VMWare. I stopped that ractise altogether even though it was convenient. Are you doing that?