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    Sleeps but won't wake-up!

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Bulay, Jan 2, 2009.

  1. Bulay

    Bulay Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,

    The title describes the problem.

    I have now set the "close lid" settings to the following:

    "Do nothing" when power connected.
    "Shut Down" when on battery.

    This is not what I want. I want it to Sleep when I close the lid while on battery power, or just sleep whenever I want it to.

    I Googled for solutions but there are so many different ones, and "Event Viewer" shows a few errors at the same time of "sleep" but to be honest I have no idea where to begin or what error to post.

    I'm "good" experience-wise with computers and can find my way around easily to fix problems, but I very very rarely ever had to go to Event Viewer, and it looks like this is where I have to go this time around.

    Help?

    Thanks in advance...

    Bulay
     
    Bulay, Jan 2, 2009
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  2. chidesd

    chidesd Notebook Evangelist

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    good subject in have the same problem in my M860tu
     
    chidesd, Jan 3, 2009
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  3. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    First, make sure your chipset drivers are up-to-date. My guess would be that there is some sort of issue with either USB or with other plug-n-play devices that doesn't permit the proper "wake" signal to be asserted.
     
    Shyster1, Jan 3, 2009
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    Audigy, Jan 3, 2009
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  5. Bulay

    Bulay Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks!

    Well I updated the chipset drivers, restarted, put to sleep, same thing.

    I believe I have the latest video driver, but will recheck.
     
    Bulay, Jan 4, 2009
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    Tarentum Notebook Deity

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    You guys have actually had notebooks where sleep functioned correctly (or correctly all the time)? I've had or used six laptops or so over the years and all of them had problems with this, either severely (hard crash) or occasionally (blue screens, etc). I just don't use this function ever as it scares me (corruption, etc), so I haven't actually tried it on my M860TU.
     
    Tarentum, Jan 4, 2009
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    just turn off sleep mode
     
    icon007, Jan 4, 2009
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    Hey Bulay,

    I had a similar issue. Going to sleep mode, doesn't wake up. All drivers up to date. Windows xp up to date also.

    After a few reinstall I found the issue, it was my firewall. I used to use kerio 2.1.5 (old, I know, but is/was a perfect firewall for me) and for some reason it broke the sleep mode. I did a fresh reinstall, and now my sleep mode is perfect.

    Try something: Do a fresh reinstall, without any drivers, and test the sleep mode. Add the chipset driver, then test it. If it works, add the video driver, then continue, until you find your issue.

    Good luck, sleep mode is worth an extra reinstall...
     
    Kuo, Jan 6, 2009
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