8510p crash on sleep

My 8510p has begun to exhibit some odd behavior. First off I'm getting occasional video resets and VPU Recover error messages. Once I crashed to an unrecoverable blank green screen and had to actually turn the unit off. Now, when I invoke the sleep mode I crash to a jittery blue screen (can't read the error messages, as the screen is all jittery and besides it's too quick) after which the computer reboots itself. Has anyone else seen these behaviors and have any idea what's causing them? Should I return the computer for replacement or send it for servicing? Thanks.

 

try updating your video drivers. Typically BSOD's or issues relating to sleep/hibernate are caused by drivers not properly working with it. I would suggest trying this first before thinking about hardware issues.

 

Actually the drivers have been updated to the latest version available through HP. I wonder if using the ones at Driver Heaven might help. I'll give that a try, although I'm not holding much hope at the moment. Thanks!

 

XP or Vista?

 

I'm running Win XP Pro SP2

 

It think I have the crash on sleep issue solved, at least. It may have been the ATI Tray Tools app. I uninstalled it and the sleep function appears to be working normally after I did.

 

Cool. To be honest all the problems people seem to have with the 8510p involve XP + the GPU. I think HP didn't work out all the kinks very well, or the HD 2600 just doesn't like XP.

I've been on Vista since August 31 with no issues :\

 

hmmph! Well, that's disheartening! lol! I went to a great deal of trouble to get a laptop with XP installed instead of Vista EXPRESSLY to avoid problems. Ahh, well, live and learn. Thanks for the insight though.

 

Trust me you'll be happier with XP. (not much happier though...)

I first had Vista installed and now I'm back to XP. Vista was a huge pain in the ass, especially UAC, since it kept asking me all time if I want to allow certain programs or change certain settings... very annoying and patronizing. A lot of my software wasn't working properly or not working at all, since it wasn't "Vista ready" yet. Also a lot of programs and especially games will run slower on Vista.

Vista may look pretty and some things did actually improve, but it's not worth the hassle. Maybe SP1 might bring some improvements.

Now I'm back to XP and after a painful installation (slipstreaming drivers... whose genius idea was that?!) everything works more or less... well except for the ATI driver. I don't have any crashes or BSOD but when returning from standby mode, the screen won't turn back on and I have to restart the whole system. I did upgrade the ATI driver but to no avail. I'll try the DriverHeaven tool later, maybe this will help.

Altogether this is a lot of hassle just to get a working OS. Why do I have to make a clean Windows installation in the first place - is it so hard to sell computer WITHOUT bloatware?! It's a supposed to be a business notebook for Christ's sake...

If it wasn't for the games and some software I need for work, I'd switch to Mac in no time.

(Sorry for the rant, but after wasting hours after hours of my precious free time on such tedious crap, I do get a little cranky...)

 

Oh I completely agree vpic! I wanted to go back to XP when I bought my 8510p--in fact I loaded XP the night I received it, after hours of painful work doing the SATA crap.

But back in September there was almost no support for the HD 2600, and I didn't want to use HP's (then) month old drivers. So I was forced back to Vista XP is great out of the box though, I still miss it every day.

It took me about 2 weeks to tweak/customize Vista to get it smooth, with (relatively) low resource usage, and no annoying crap (UAC etc ).

Vista is actually really great for disabling services and junk, it's very easy. BUT they have all this useless crap (like tablet services on a non tablet machine???) which just makes 0 sense and means you HAVE to tweak the OS to hell to make it usable.

So yeah, I really feel for you guys on XP, because it's the OS I prefer, but it seems Vista is more stable on the 8510p

 

Jeez, now the fingerprint reader drivers can't be installed for some reason...

Here's what I experienced with my 8510p so far:

- fan noise
- poorly built AC adapter
- touch-sensitive buttons unreliable
- faulty graphics driver
- generally bad drivers for XP

Never buying HP again

 

I've had the VPU Recover issues on my 8510p, and entered a support request with HP. They called me today to say there is a BIOS update available: tinyurl.com/3a94gj