Updated GPU Driver - Can't get out of Sleep

I updated to 180.42 to fix the glitch I had in Far Cry. That worked. All my games work. Everything seems stable, until I close my laptop lid to go to sleep mode. That's fine, except when I open it. The computer turns on (I don't hear the fan, however), the DVD drive opens, the lights are on, but the monitor is off.

Any ideas? Should I revert back to the old GPU driver?

 

Posted this a while ago and it's happening again. It just comes and goes.

 

Hey Sepharite,

I've been using that driver for a while, and have the same problem. I just use hibernate instead, I find it works better anyway.

If you absolutely can't live with it, just try other drivers until you find a stable one. You could revert back to the old driver/an "official" nVidia driver, but I've done this and FC2 doesn't run nearly as well (good game, no?).

I also have a question for everyone: occasionally (maybe once every couple weeks), my entire screen will freeze, with everything looking extremely distorted. It basically looks like every 1/8" of screen, vertically, has been sheared from the previous layer above it. The entire computer freezes at this point. Windows tells me it's some sort of problem between Firefox, my printer driver (HP Deskjet 4160), and the graphics driver. Has anyone else had this happen, and how can I fix it?

 

How do you hibernate? I think I deleted that function D=

 

seems that those drivers are troublesome. I was using the GTA4 drivers and having the same thing.

 

So I just downgraded back to the Dell Drivers. And now my games aren't playable anymore. I suppose I should clean the driver completely and reinstall. Bugger.

 

Driver 179.48 gives good performance. It's the current official release on the nvidia site.