Vaio TZ - Closing Lid is different from Power Button?

Hello, I have a question about my Vaio TZ150. I want my power button to do the same thing as closing the lid: putting the computer to sleep. However, they seem to do different things.

When I close the lid, the laptop turns off really quickly (about 3 seconds), and the power button light turns the green color off and flashes amber every 5 seconds, approximately. When I open the lid and press a key, the laptop goes straight to the user log-in window in about 3 seconds.

However, when I just press the power button while the laptop is running, it takes a much longer time for the laptop to turn off (about 10-15 seconds). Once it is off, the power button light does not flash amber. There is no color at all, as if the laptop was totally shut down. When I press the power button again, the laptop turns back on, but shows a screen that says 'Resuming Windows', and after about 7 seconds, the user log-in window is shown.

How can I make it so the power button functions exactly the way closing the lid does? I've already done the obvious - checked the power options. I went to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Power Options. I selected "Choose what the power button does", and set everything to sleep. I selected "Choose what closing the lid does", and set everything to sleep.

So why do they seem different?

Note: I am using Windows Vista Business.

 

Vista allows you to decide what will happen with each action. Goto the power options area and look under the advanced tab. There it will allow you to change the behavior of the lid, power button etc. I dont remember if you can make each action behave completely different from the set power scheme though.

Sorry, just noticed that I did not answer your question. I remember something about the timeing of a shut down or standby is controled by a registry number that counts down when the button is pressed to give Vista enough time to do its thing. You can change the number. Maybe the lid and button are set differently. I think I read it on one of the Vista optimization posts.

Also, you may have to shut the laptop completely down and then re-start it for the power changes to take effect. Try that...

 

Yes you can do that. What it is currently doing is hibernating. It saves everything in memory to the hard drive and then shuts down completely. Hibernation is safe for putting in cases etc, while sleep mode is not.

It sounds like you did it right, but remember that you need to change that for both on battery power and on AC power. Also, it will only change for the current power plan, so if you did all that for "Power Saver", you will need to re-do it if you want to use "Balanced".

Greg

 

SpeedyMods, THANK YOU. You're absolutely right. The power button was set to hibernate, even though it shows up in the 'Choose what the power button does' tab as 'sleep'. I have no idea why Microsoft did that, because it makes things very confusing.

I had to open up the advanced settings window, where it shows all of the settings in a list. I went down to the 'Power Buttons and Lid', then 'power button action', and it shows the power button set to hibernate, just as you said.

Actually, the way you explained the hibernate option makes me NOT want to change the power button function to 'sleep'. I think I will just keep the power button function on hibernate, then. At least I understand how this works now. Thanks a lot for the info.

 

No problem, glad I could help. Hibernate can be very convienient.

What I setup is when plugged in, lid close does nothing, but on battery goes to sleep, my start menu power button is shut down (like it should be IMO, I bet most computer iliterate people don't know how to turn their PC's off anymore) and my power button is hibernate.

Greg

 

How come you set your lid-closing to do nothing when plugged in, if I may ask? I'm just curious.

 

At the TZ hibernate is also Fn+F12 right?

 

I do the same thing because if you have the TZ connected to a either a docking station (or bluetooth keyboard/mouse) and route the video to a larger LCD when at a desk, then why leave the lid open? When unplugged however, mine goes to hibernate. Personal preference I guess.

 

Correct. Fn+F12 is hibernate.