Hibernation and Standby Trouble

This is really starting to annoy me, so I will see if anyone knows anything about the problem or what I can do. I think the pattern to this problem is the use of external devices. When I am at my desk I have two USB hubs connected to my desk. I have everything from USB disks to keyboards, scanners, TV Tuners, and a printer. If I restart my computer and never connect to these devices, I can use standby and hibernation without trouble. If I have connected these devices after a restart, power modes don’t work properly. Sometimes neither standby or hibernation will work. Sometimes only hibernation will not work. Sometimes if I put the computer into hibernation it will go to the “preparing for hibernation” screen then just return to the desktop. Sometimes if I put the computer in standby the computer will be in standby but then just turn back on with no device changes that should wake it up. This is problematic because of both battery power and the fact that it will turn on in my back and get extremely hot. Is this a problem with the windows patch that was causing trouble with USB devices and power saving features? Is there a way to monitor why it is doing this. Thanks.

 

I applied the microsoft patch and it seems to have helped, but the computer is just randomly turning on. I can't think of anything that has changed to cause this. I am about ready to format and start over, but I don't have much time to do this. Any thoughts on why the computer would just randomly turn on from any power state (off, hibernate, standby)?

 

Just a hunch.. one of your USB devices is waking the PC somehow, maybe signalling activity. Have you tried them one by one and try figure out which one is doing it?

Again, just a hunch...

 

A similar issue existed with the z71v where the laptop would randomly turn on. Turned out to be a setting in the nic properties that allowed the laptop to turn on at will.....WHo knows. First time i hear of this on the w3j

 

dont know about your laptop .but i had standby problems and a bios update fixed it .but i say i dont know about your laptop just a long shot

 

the op has an entirely different issue though. His laptop powers itself on after hibernate

 

how does the bios update work? it just downloads to an unrecongized file for me.

 

jacen: You have to use something like Winflash from Windows/DOS or EZFlash from within BIOS, point it to the file you downloaded to update.

 

Sounds like a BIOS flash is the way to go. Your sig says you use Ubuntu - does the same thing happen there?

~ Brett

 

I hadn't been in Ubuntu for a while, but Windows (along with most every electrical device I own) melted down last night. I am in Ubuntu now, and so far it has been fine, but so far it isn't a sufficient test.