Studio 15 standby issue

I am having a problem with putting my machine into standby/sleep.

1. The FN+F1 button to put the pc into standby does not work. The FN+F3 to access the battery meter also does not work but the FN+F10 to eject a disc does work

2. When I close the lid my computer often does not go into standby, rather the screen turns off and then it just stays at that point(by often I mean it works correctly maybe 3 out of 10 times). When I reopen the lid it returns me to the sign in screen. When my PC was new it did not do this but I have not changed anything except installing Firefox and Microsoft office

pressing the power button does work to put the computer into sleep mode if that is what it is assigned to do under power options.

any ideas?

 

ye olde reformat

 

Try here:

http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/572024-vista-won-t-stay-asleep.html

 

ok in my searching I found this:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3020678&SiteID=1

I am going to see how that works however that still does not solve my FN+F1 and FN+F3 issue

 

Try starting the Dell Quickset program.

 

Having the same problem here...any solutions? Starting Quickset does nothing..

 

Quickset manages the function keys special functions, so you may want to uninstall and then reinstall. Something may have gotten corrupted.