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    Does anyone else's Inspiron 1520 and Vista not like sleep and hibernate as much as mine?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by mosquitogang201, Oct 31, 2007.

  1. mosquitogang201

    mosquitogang201 Notebook Enthusiast

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    90% of the time when I try to resume from sleep or hibernate the computer locks up and I have to hard reboot it. It is starting to get annoying b/c I just lost half of a paper because of it. Is this typical? I've installed all the updates from Dell.
     
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    im having the exact same problem. right now i just have hibernate and sleep disabled, would definitely like a fix for this.
     
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    just tried 163.67 and sleep and hibernation work fine. gonna do some benchmarks and see if i'm getting same scores as 165.01
     
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    These always tend to be a driver issue.
     
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    I'm using 163.44.
    According to task manager, haven't done a single shut down in 216 hours. Most of the time I hibernate.
     
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    just tried out 163.67...runs bioshock perfectly...3dmark06 score was actually higher then 165.01...the only thing i cant do is overclock with ntune, but i can sleep/hibernate without any black screen lock ups.

    are you able to overclock with ntune in 163.44 daniel?
     
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    I don't have the nerve to try, even though it should be safe..
    The ntune control panel does let me select the 'Custom Clock Frequency' option, and the controls are activated.
     
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    ya everything is activated for me aswell, except when i click apply after tuning it auto reverts it back to default.

    i just tryed 165.01 driver on a clean install of vista on a 1520 and the sleep/hibernation does not work. so stay away from 165.01 if you like your hibernation/sleep. 165.01 does allow overclocking though =/

    which to choose, which to choose...
     
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    I tried it(dragged the bar to 480MHz, and was gonna blame you if anything bad happened :p), but it didn't allow overclocking.
    So no, 163.44 won't allow overclocking.

    Personally, I would go with the one that lets you sleep/hibernate, unless you have a game that isn't running smooth.
     
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    Thanks it was definitely a driver issue. I was using the 165.01 and overclocking to try to get some decent framerates out of the Crysis demo.
     
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    Hibernate works, but sleep has never worked for me at all no matter what drivers I have tried.
     
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    finally found the perfect driver...169.04

    3dmark06
    Straight from Dell: 3123
    Clean Install: 3383
    163.67: 3405
    169.04 3551

    169.04
    Overclocking with Ntune works fine. Sleep/Hibernation work fine. Bioshock runs perfect at DX10 max settings. Gonna try Crysis later and see how that runs. Hope this helps.
     
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