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I've had the same problem with mine once or twice...and yes I do know you press the power button. It just doesn't wake up and you have to reboot. Any ideas? General issue w/ the computer or could it be vista?
It did work when I got the lappy original, so I presume maybe it's some conflict with a driver upgrade or a program I installed.
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And yes I too tried to press the power button ~.~
I had the same problem when I had my 1520. Once I formatted and did a clean install of Vista, getting out of sleep mode would be a real issue. The machine was on, I could hear system sounds, but the screen wouldn't turn back on.
As soon as I experienced the problem I was ready to look for a fix online. That's actually when I found notebookreview.com and came across the thread where everyone talked about the high pitched noise emanating from the motherboard. I think it may be a driver issue, there has to be a solution though. I'm surprised nobody else seems to have experienced this though, as a great deal of people like to perform clean installs once they receive their laptops.
O ic, what is the purpose of doing these clean installs? I was planning on doing it just to get rid of bloatware but if it causes issues with sleep mode, I think i could just use ccleaner and get rid of programs I don't want
I like to get rid of the bloatware and also get rid of the numerous partitions Dell makes on the hard drive. I don't use Media Direct and don't really care about their restore hard drive, I figured, once or twice a year, I like to perform a clean install to keep things running smoothly. I may keep that restore partition a little longer and try to get rid of the bloatware manually though. I do no want any issues with the screen!
I What is Media Direct? what would bloatware even consist of in a dell? sorry, I haven't bought a computer in a long long time so I have no idea what you guys see preinstalled.
Media Direct lets you play DVD's and CD's without booting to Windows.
Bloatware is unwanted stuff like demo versions of software that you didn't ask for. For example, when I ordered a 1520 I got a 30-day demo of McAfee antivirus, which I didn't want, and Roxio Basic, which I didn't want.
I seem to be having the same problem with my 1520. It does not want to wake up from sleep mode right out of the box... I thought that I didnt know HOW to wake it up though... I hope it will be fixed.
I have read that some Nvidia video card drivers have trouble allowing sleep mode.
I have tried several different Nvidia drivers from laptopvideo2go in my 1720 with the Nvidia 8600 card. Some of these drivers work with sleep mode, and some don't let you "wake" the computer up.
To complicate matters, some of the drivers allow better tweaking of the high-end graphics performance of my graphics card. The only thing I can suggest is to download a handful of them and cycle through them until you find one that meets your particular need.
i had this problem with my 1420. it was a direct result of using the video drivers from laptopvideo2go.com. upon switching back to the Dell provided video driver on support.dell.com, all the sleep issues i had went away and the laptop woke up properly.
I think my nvidia drivers are screwing up sleep for me as well. I like the 162.18 drivers for the performance did increase a healthy margin, but they might cause this sleep issue. I hate nvidia.
i dont know what else it could be besides a video problem. cause it is evident the system turns on and there is activity, it's just you cant see a damn thing. this leads me to believe it is a problem with the video adapter, specifically nVidia. from what i have read, nVidia is the only one that suffers from this problem, those with ATI cards have no problems at all with screen flickers or resuming from sleep.
i honestly dont remember which one's i used cause i had tried this like the 2nd day i had my laptop. what i may do when i get home, is load up the ones you are using to see what happens again with the sleep mode.
I'd try changing the drivers first. We have at least two people here (brianj and myself) who have had the problem go away after changing drivers.
Try updating the drivers your wife's Acer, and tell us if it goes away. If it doesn't, well, at least you've optimized you can optimize your graphics performance. =)
I face the same problem with 6400. I think this issue is with vista, I read somewhere that microsoft will be releasing patch for this issue with service pack 1 for vista.
It might be the driver, I had updated to 165. whatever on laptovideo2go.com when it began happening now that I think of it.
I'll try to rollback when I get home and see if that works.
It's quite annoying.
For me, the answer to both questions has been YES. It's the drivers having trouble with Vista's sleep mode.
I have tried about six different NVidia drivers (from laptopvideo2go). Some work with sleep mode, and some don't.
To complicate matters, some allow overclocking, and some don't. Some perform well, and some don't.
Just keep trying in the 150's and 160's (picking the Vista 32-bit versions, and using the included INF files) until you find one that satisfies your particular needs. You might try 158.36 first.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
