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    strange sleep issue with vista...

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by taycee24, Sep 30, 2007.

  1. taycee24

    taycee24 Newbie

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    Hi everyone. I recently upgraded my e1405 from XP MCE to Vista Ultimate and now am facing a strange problem with the sleep function, which I couldn't seem to find another post or site discussing about it...

    Whenever I put the laptop to sleep, sometimes it will sleep without any problems. And other times, the screen will simply turn off, but the laptop itself, the fans, wifi/BT lights, and hard drive just stay on.

    I didn't discover this until the other day, I had closed my lid during class (expecting it to go to sleep as usual) and when I took my computer out from my backpack in the library, it was still running and hot, but the screen was off. And there is no way for me to wake up the system without holding down the power button to turn it off and then turn it on again.

    I made sure that under my power settings, closing the lid/power buttons are set my laptop to sleep and that didn't seem to help much. The laptop itself would occasionally stay on with the screen off.

    I've updated the graphics (GMA 950? or something integrated) and bios from Dell's website and that didn't seem to change much either.

    The laptop's running a T2300 with 2GB of ram. I never had this issue before while running XP which was the original OS when Dell shipped it to me. Any input would greatly be appreciated. Thanks.
     
    taycee24, Sep 30, 2007
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  2. frazell

    frazell Notebook Deity

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    I've had this issue a few times on my i1520 with Vista U. 64 and I think it is some hardware causing it... I used to get this same issue on my i5160 on XP SP2 randomly as well :(

    Try turning off your WiFi and BT and see if that helps. As maybe those drivers are preventing the sleep mode...
     
    frazell, Sep 30, 2007
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  3. CreX

    CreX Notebook Consultant

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    Have seen this issue a couple of times my self with the newer 174.xx driver I'm using atm.

    I only use sleep mode for the "temperature sleep fix" for 8600. What I do to get the computer in sleep mode is to simply close all program, including MSN etc. And I also unplug any external storage device. Also try unplug other external USB devices or even the network cable. Then it works flawless to put the lappie in sleep.

    For what I've noticed is, that the computer MUST idle to be able to execute Sleep Mode.
     
    CreX, Feb 29, 2008
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