Asus ensemble wont recover after standby problem

My Asus V6J screen will not come back on after closing and then reopening the lid.

Here is what I have found out so far about this issue that has effected the W3J for sure and possibly is a problem that could be encountered on other Asus ensemble notebooks

So far there have been a few solutions
1. Update bios
2. Reinstall using the factory provide restore cd to the whole disk instead of using 2 partitions.
3. In power options in control panel uncheck the checkbox that says prompt for password on resume.

Also:

make sure you have the wireless console installed. i belive asus left that out. You can find it here http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/W3J/W_Console_XP_060426.zip
I do not belive this util is installed. Its suposed to help the standby function recover. Other then that it controlls the wifi and bluetooth as i recall on previous models but may interfere with some of the function keys.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...D2-09E1-4511-AF14-03F357180135&displaylang=en
try that yes i know its hibernate. Try it it anyways...


he only other thing i can think of is update your intel wifi drivers. This is a 3945 abg card. Drivers can be found here ---> http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Detail_Desc.aspx?&DwnldID=9720&ProductID=2259
If this dont work i can only tell you to call asus. I am pretty sure they know by now.

Have you tried updating the wireless drivers? Either from intel or from asus? I hear this issue on the v6j has been solved by those....

Not too sure. You may want to remove the current driver and intall the intel driver or the asus driver.

Now to get to standby's, I just close the laptop and it goes to standby (or hibernate, not sure). When I open it, I just hit enter and it loads back up to the user login screen with all saved data behind that username. I have no problems whatsoever.

Ye thats standby
Its very possible the vga driver is preventing it from going to standby. To the original poster. Can you try omegas and see if that solves your issues?

New bios for w3j is available. Got word back that it solves the stanby issue

 

that is all that I have found about this issue so far and not sure which to try first or what has been found to ulimately fix the problem on the V6j in particular.

This thread should be sticked and the definitive solution for each model (if different) should be posted.

I don't want to try ten different things if there is one main thing that fixes it. I guess I will try to call Asus but surprised there is no info on this in these forums.

It sucks that there is no way to get it out of standby and get the screen to come back on after opening back up the lid without shutting down the laptop (hold power button for 4 seconds) and turning back on in which you lose everything you had on the screen.

 

In power options in control panel uncheck the checkbox that says prompt for password on resume.

solved the problem for me.

I guess if you dont have a password set and since the check box is checked by default the laptop doesnt' know what to do as its prompting for a password that doesnt' exist or has never been set so the screen just stays blank.

though i seem to remember when i closed the lid the light didn't blink as it does when you put in standby or when i close the lid now so maybe something else was happening and it wasn't even going into standby.

either way option 3
In power options in control panel uncheck the checkbox that says prompt for password on resume.

is the easiest to do and luckily it works. now i can close lid and it goes in standby and then open lid and hit any key to resume.

 

Wow what a thorough research Quatre! Way to go! So you just bought a V6J?

 

um yeah, not long ago. yeah i found it amazing that a pretty majjor problem like this that effected several models supposedly wasn't mentioned much on these forums. and where it was scattered and in definite.

seems there was a simple fix for me and the other stuff are just more complex fixes or if the first thing doenst work.

 

There were actually several threads about this and other problems that affected the W3j, do a search and you will find them.

 

i did but didn't find any. on another site found stuff about w3j but was concerned it wouldnt be the exact same problem or solution for v6j

here is the new problem. now it seems when i boot up the laptop. it doenst' go to the login screen to choose which user to logon. this may be more of a problem still

now i just switched users to my wifes log in and uncheck prompt for password and tested to make sure closing lid puts in hybernate and it did but then when i switched back to my login name and closed the lid it blanked up again. i can tell when it will becomes if it properly goes into standby mode the led blinks.

i dont know if the option recheck itself or what but looks like i may have to do some of themore complex fixes. unchecking that option is just a quick fix but seems to mess up how you boot up/logon and we wont be able to set a password for coming back from standby

 

Well, you did turn off the option for it to go to that screen. Also, this points out a symantic error. We call this check box a "fix", but it is a work around, not a fix.

 

started up back, looked in powesettings and was still unchecked. closing lid properly puts it in stanby and can get out. oh well, guess it was just a fluke

 

It happens occasionally on my A8jm. I just close and open the lid again and the screen turns back on.

 

ive turned off everything but the standy option (ie hibernation, hard disk off, video off) ...but thats not exactly a fix...its a bad workaround

 

I don't think this is specific to ensemble, or even Asus. Unfortunately I have dealt with this problem much longer than I would like to admit. I had a XPS M170 with the same problem. It acted as if it was not really even going all the way into standby, screen black but no lights would indicate that it was in standby (much easier with the XPS to tell with all those light, that should turn off in standby). I dealt with Dell for 6 months! Reformatted, tried forum fixes, Dell replaced two batteries (the issue on the Dell was ONLY on battery power, have you tried that?), replaced the LCD screen, the GPU and the mother board, no success. At that point I got far past fed up and made them send me a new one. They wanted to send me a refurbished one... NO I said! But that model isn't made anymore they said... I don't care, send me a NEW M1710 I said. After much arguing back and forth, I now have a brand new M1710 with specs pretty much maxed out sitting in a box (know anyone who wants one? LOL, I'm on an Asus now)

Then I got my new W3J, it was doing something similar, imagine my dismay after dealing with Dell for that long and then going to a new company, Glunk! I almost swallowed my own tongue. But then I figured this out... on my W3J, it was not going into standby, the scene was simply turning off and not coming back on. I suspect this is what is happening to you "shlemielo", it has to do with the Power4Gear, uninstall that and it will probably be fine, it fixed my problem. To check if that is truly your problem, next time it happens simply press Fn+F8 twice to turn the monitor back on, another way is to put it into standby and then wake it back up and it works (hence the working after you close your lid then open it).

Quatre, I wish I could help you, I never did find out what was wrong with my Dell, as for everyone else make sure that "standby" is really the problem, the light should blink slowly or it isn't in standby. Quatre, maybe it is still an issue with the Power4Gear, it's certainly easy enough to uninstall and find out.

Oh, one other thing, you said you turned it on and logged in with your wife's profile and it was fine, then changed to yours and it locked up again... my Dell would never do it the first time it was turned on, sometimes it would work on the second try putting it into standby, but after that it would almost always freeze on me. So try it a few times on her profile before you confirm that is really happening only on one profile.

Sorry for being long winded, goodluck with the problem Quatre, I feel for you