Sleep mode causing many problems

I've had issues with sleep mode for a long time and I should have come back to this forum sooner. Great place!

Here's what's wrong. Most of the problems stem from waking up from sleep mode.

My biggest issue is that the CPU fan runs at its minimum speed upon waking up and does not speed up no matter how hot the CPU gets.

Secondly some of my startup programs will be closed upon wake up (most importantly Throttlestop).

Also if I don't freshly restart my computer before playing Dota 2, the game oscillates between times when the frame rate is terrible and times when it is normal. I'm pretty sure sleep mode is to blame for that as well.

Also at times I get the following problems:
-can't adjust screen brightness (even via windows)
-can't scroll using touchpad
-sleep mode crashes the computer

The brightness and touchpad problems can sometimes be fixed without reboot by re-entering sleep and waking up.

I disabled the Firewire driver which was a fix described in another thread and I also flashed to 9C.23 but neither of these fixed any of the problems.

Thanks to those who read this! Hope you can help.

 

The frame rate issue is most likely the cpu slowing itself down to cool. Unfortunatley I don't have a P78 to mimic your issues. The only one I know of is the firewire legacy driver with windows 7.............

 

Shoot, I figured other people would also have some sleep problems. It makes sense what you said about the frame rate issue. I don't think I noticed the CPU fan problem back in the summer when I was playing Dota 2 which is why I didn't put the two and two together. I discovered that hibernate will reverse the CPU problem, so I will be using that as a temp solution. I plan to install Win 7 on a separate partition to see if a new install fixes things.

 

Today I learned what causes the problem to happen. Oddly enough it is installing the graphics driver. On a clean install of Windows 7, before I install the video driver, there is no backlight brightness control in Windows (likewise backlight doesn't change via keyboard) and on sleep mode wake up there is a "Resuming Windows..." screen that appears. Sleep mode takes longer to wake up from but does not result in the CPU fan control being messed up. After installing the graphics driver, sleep mode is back to normal with no "resuming Windows" screen and the problem is back. The version of the video driver doesn't seem to matter. I think that installing the video driver just triggers Windows to behave "normally", which for me causes problems. I think my hardware must be messed up.

Perhaps I can enable the "resuming Windows" version of sleep with the video driver installed.

Edit:
I think that actually what is happening is Windows is doing a hibernate and not a sleep.

 

Sleep will not result in a "Resuming Windows", hibernate does this. What happens is, without a proper video driver, sleep probably will not work properly as the hardware can not reinitialize. hibernate though save to file and shuts down, since you are doing a power up the display initializes properly.

 

Also, I had posted in a another thread, about updating the graphics driver fixed sleep problems for me.

 

@Tanware: Yeah I kinda figured out that it was really just hibernating after I posted the thread.

@TreeTops Ranch: I couldn't find your previous post; would it be possible for you to tell me what driver you are (or were) using? I've tried 4 different ones, including the one Gateway has on their website and the one that Win Update wanted me to install.

 

I installed driver 285.79 for Win 7 64. It has worked flawlessly for me. However, I don't game. I do a lot of video rendering with Vegas Movie studio 12 and multitasking with word and excel and accounting programs like Quickbooks.

I don't use hibernate, but I use sleep all the time. Before updating that GPU driver, I couldn't get out of sleep without rebooting.