Gateway LT31 and windows 7 and sleep mode

Hello all,

First i love my LT31 it does just about everything I ask it to do. I had a version of Win7 ultimate RC on it and never had a issue with sleep mode on it. I then wiped it clean and installed Win 7 Pro RCM. Now sleep mode only seems to work about 25% of the time. I have tried useing the sleep button to see it that works and it did 1 time then not the next. What happens is the screen will darken and Windows plays the going to sleep sound. But the machine will not awake. It will have the fan going and I can see the hard drive working but the screen stays dark. Also the power button will stay green the whole time. If it goes to sleep properly the power will change to red and then go out.

Anyone got any Ideas?

 

Do you have file sharing enabled by chance?

I've heard that can cause the sleep mode to stop working properly.

 

Thanks for the reply but nope File sharing is set to off.

 

Hi there,

Sorry to threadcrap: how long does your battery last and how loud is the fan? Is fan control supported?

thx.

 

I think it probably has to do with the wireless card drivers. It seemed to be the problem on my last laptop (acer ferrari 4005)

 

Hello all,

Unpilot or others, how did you solve your power management / sleep mode issue on your LT31? I am having a similar problem, the laptop won't go into sleep, just hangs with black screen and fan running. Running Win 7 ultimate 64-bit.

Thanks!

 

I can tell you I have an issue with sleep mode when using set FSB, also with reboot too but pure shutdown is fine..............

 

I'm also having the same problem with the LT31 and Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Is anyone using wireless HID devices? I hear this may be a major problem while sleeping. Thanks.

 

I discovered why my LT3101 wouldn't go to sleep under Windows 7 Pro x64: the video driver. I'm not sure that gateway ever intended people to actually run a 64-bit copy of 7 on these machines, because the driver just doesn't seem to support it. The best I've been able to do is get the machine to hibernate, and that's using the default generic SVGA driver that comes with Windows. It isn't sleep, and it isn't the best solution, but I don't play games on this guy. So far it hasn't been an issue, video plays back just fine in SD and I don't even have any real HD content to throw at it. I'm a little miffed that the X1270 is only allotted "legacy support" by AMD whilst the X1300 is current. I'll try a few more driver packages and report my findings, but so far all of the drivers I've tried off of AMD and Gateway's support sites ends in the same story: an LT31 that can't sleep or hibernate.