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Problems with sleep
I initally had sleep problems as well, however I've partially solved them.
After talking with my PC support desk they suggested I update my network drivers. The network can wake a PC out of the sleep mode if any type of communications is preceived. Doing this got me from always locking up upon wakeup to working correctly most of the time. The other thing I've found out is that it will wake up if it goes into a power save sleep from a logged in user ID. I have 4 user ID's defined and sometimes I will log out of my ID and leave it in the state waiting for a user to login. If it goes into a power save sleep from this state it still locks up. I have to shut down and reboot. When it comes up it indicates it is "resuming windows" instead of a full power up sequence. "west" wrote: "Christopher Robin" wrote: I'm going to revive this thread because I'm having sleep issues myself. My problem is that if I placee my system to sleep via the start menu, everything works normally. The system sleeps, and later I'm able to wake it up. If I set the power options to place the system to sleep after so many minutes of inactivity, however, I'm unable to wake it up. I'm not at my machine at the moment, so I'm not able to check anything, but I'm looking for different ideas of what may be causing this. Thanks, Chris Same here, it's driving me nuts. I can't use sleep because it wakes up immediately and also breaks the internet connection. I'm running the 64 bit version (Premium) I've downloaded all the available hotfixes, latest device drivers and latest motherboard bios. I have my mouse set to not wake the system. After I try the sleep function it wakes immediately, but if I try it again, the system just won't wake up and I have to reset it. Extremely frustrating. |
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Problems with sleep
My problem is with the connection being broken after returning from
hibernation. My private network is using NAT, so the network configuration on the computer is stored in the alternate configuration, this way I can still use DHCP in other wireless networks. But when the computer returns from hibernation its trying to connect via DHCP for like 10 minutes before it decides to us the Alternate Configuration. This was never a problem with WinXP, and I'm sure there are more people out there using NAT and DHCP. If DHCP is not available isn't it suppose to attempt to use the Alternate Configuration much quicker than the response that I am getting? if anyone shed some light on this, or at least test it themselves, I would appreciate it. "compTMan" wrote: I initally had sleep problems as well, however I've partially solved them. After talking with my PC support desk they suggested I update my network drivers. The network can wake a PC out of the sleep mode if any type of communications is preceived. Doing this got me from always locking up upon wakeup to working correctly most of the time. The other thing I've found out is that it will wake up if it goes into a power save sleep from a logged in user ID. I have 4 user ID's defined and sometimes I will log out of my ID and leave it in the state waiting for a user to login. If it goes into a power save sleep from this state it still locks up. I have to shut down and reboot. When it comes up it indicates it is "resuming windows" instead of a full power up sequence. "west" wrote: "Christopher Robin" wrote: I'm going to revive this thread because I'm having sleep issues myself. My problem is that if I placee my system to sleep via the start menu, everything works normally. The system sleeps, and later I'm able to wake it up. If I set the power options to place the system to sleep after so many minutes of inactivity, however, I'm unable to wake it up. I'm not at my machine at the moment, so I'm not able to check anything, but I'm looking for different ideas of what may be causing this. Thanks, Chris Same here, it's driving me nuts. I can't use sleep because it wakes up immediately and also breaks the internet connection. I'm running the 64 bit version (Premium) I've downloaded all the available hotfixes, latest device drivers and latest motherboard bios. I have my mouse set to not wake the system. After I try the sleep function it wakes immediately, but if I try it again, the system just won't wake up and I have to reset it. Extremely frustrating. |
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Problems with sleep
My problem is that when my computer goes into sleep mode, once it is wakened,
I have to restart the computer in order to reconnect to the internet. If I don't the network says "identifying NETGEAR (my home network)" and under Access: it says Local only instead of Local and Internet. I tried doing the power options thing, but my computer was already set to the option suggested. I also tried the command prompt thing, but I have no idea what it means or what I should do about it. It is incredibly inconvenient to restart the whole system in order to regain internet connectivity with my network. The only thing I can think of is resetting the sleep options so that either it doesn't sleep or to set the timer to a much higher time. That's ok if it's plugged in, but if I'm using the battery that option will eventually kill the battery life. Please help... "BuzzLightyear" wrote: To make Windows go to sleep mode correctly I have to disable the option to wake up the system with the keyboard, otherwise it goes to sleep mode but suddenly restarts. Also, after restoring from sleep mode, network connectivity doesn't work and using Network diagnosis I have to restore LAN settings |
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Problems with sleep
Is http://support.microsoft.com/default...b/933872/en-us your
problem? In addition, be sure you have the latest firmware for your router and driver for your network card. On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:01:01 -0700, jhackp3b8 wrote: My problem is that when my computer goes into sleep mode, once it is wakened, I have to restart the computer in order to reconnect to the internet. If I don't the network says "identifying NETGEAR (my home network)" and under Access: it says Local only instead of Local and Internet. I tried doing the power options thing, but my computer was already set to the option suggested. I also tried the command prompt thing, but I have no idea what it means or what I should do about it. It is incredibly inconvenient to restart the whole system in order to regain internet connectivity with my network. The only thing I can think of is resetting the sleep options so that either it doesn't sleep or to set the timer to a much higher time. That's ok if it's plugged in, but if I'm using the battery that option will eventually kill the battery life. Please help... "BuzzLightyear" wrote: To make Windows go to sleep mode correctly I have to disable the option to wake up the system with the keyboard, otherwise it goes to sleep mode but suddenly restarts. Also, after restoring from sleep mode, network connectivity doesn't work and using Network diagnosis I have to restore LAN settings -- Barb Bowman MS Windows-MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ |
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Problems with sleep
also, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941649 which seems to be
fixing lots of misc. problems. On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:01:01 -0700, jhackp3b8 wrote: My problem is that when my computer goes into sleep mode, once it is wakened, I have to restart the computer in order to reconnect to the internet. If I don't the network says "identifying NETGEAR (my home network)" and under Access: it says Local only instead of Local and Internet. I tried doing the power options thing, but my computer was already set to the option suggested. I also tried the command prompt thing, but I have no idea what it means or what I should do about it. It is incredibly inconvenient to restart the whole system in order to regain internet connectivity with my network. The only thing I can think of is resetting the sleep options so that either it doesn't sleep or to set the timer to a much higher time. That's ok if it's plugged in, but if I'm using the battery that option will eventually kill the battery life. Please help... "BuzzLightyear" wrote: To make Windows go to sleep mode correctly I have to disable the option to wake up the system with the keyboard, otherwise it goes to sleep mode but suddenly restarts. Also, after restoring from sleep mode, network connectivity doesn't work and using Network diagnosis I have to restore LAN settings -- Barb Bowman MS Windows-MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ |
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Problems with sleep
Stanor - I have a worse problem with the sleep mode. The computer puts itself
into sleep mode if I don't touch it for about 30 seconds, and then it is almost impossible to get it to come out of sleep mode whatever I do. Even booting up the computer again doesn't always solve the problem. Any suggestions from anyone would be appreciated. "Barb Bowman" wrote: also, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941649 which seems to be fixing lots of misc. problems. On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:01:01 -0700, jhackp3b8 wrote: My problem is that when my computer goes into sleep mode, once it is wakened, I have to restart the computer in order to reconnect to the internet. If I don't the network says "identifying NETGEAR (my home network)" and under Access: it says Local only instead of Local and Internet. I tried doing the power options thing, but my computer was already set to the option suggested. I also tried the command prompt thing, but I have no idea what it means or what I should do about it. It is incredibly inconvenient to restart the whole system in order to regain internet connectivity with my network. The only thing I can think of is resetting the sleep options so that either it doesn't sleep or to set the timer to a much higher time. That's ok if it's plugged in, but if I'm using the battery that option will eventually kill the battery life. Please help... "BuzzLightyear" wrote: To make Windows go to sleep mode correctly I have to disable the option to wake up the system with the keyboard, otherwise it goes to sleep mode but suddenly restarts. Also, after restoring from sleep mode, network connectivity doesn't work and using Network diagnosis I have to restore LAN settings -- Barb Bowman MS Windows-MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ |
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Problems with sleep
what do you mean "booting up the computer again doesn't always solve
the problem"? what exactly happens? what do you see? what errors are in the event log? what kind of computer? what video card and do you have the latest drivers for it? do you have all the updates from Windows Update? On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 12:13:03 -0800, Stanor wrote: Stanor - I have a worse problem with the sleep mode. The computer puts itself into sleep mode if I don't touch it for about 30 seconds, and then it is almost impossible to get it to come out of sleep mode whatever I do. Even booting up the computer again doesn't always solve the problem. Any suggestions from anyone would be appreciated. "Barb Bowman" wrote: also, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941649 which seems to be fixing lots of misc. problems. On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:01:01 -0700, jhackp3b8 wrote: My problem is that when my computer goes into sleep mode, once it is wakened, I have to restart the computer in order to reconnect to the internet. If I don't the network says "identifying NETGEAR (my home network)" and under Access: it says Local only instead of Local and Internet. I tried doing the power options thing, but my computer was already set to the option suggested. I also tried the command prompt thing, but I have no idea what it means or what I should do about it. It is incredibly inconvenient to restart the whole system in order to regain internet connectivity with my network. The only thing I can think of is resetting the sleep options so that either it doesn't sleep or to set the timer to a much higher time. That's ok if it's plugged in, but if I'm using the battery that option will eventually kill the battery life. Please help... "BuzzLightyear" wrote: To make Windows go to sleep mode correctly I have to disable the option to wake up the system with the keyboard, otherwise it goes to sleep mode but suddenly restarts. Also, after restoring from sleep mode, network connectivity doesn't work and using Network diagnosis I have to restore LAN settings -- Barb Bowman MS Windows-MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ -- Barb Bowman MS Windows-MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ |
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Problems with sleep
What happens when I boot up the computer again it automatically goes into
sleep mode while it is booting up. I just then have a blank screen. My computer is a Dell ACPI x86-based PC with the Vista Home Premium with an Inspiron 530 hard drive. As far as I know I have all the updates from Windows Update - this is a brand new computer, about 3 months old "Barb Bowman" wrote: what do you mean "booting up the computer again doesn't always solve the problem"? what exactly happens? what do you see? what errors are in the event log? what kind of computer? what video card and do you have the latest drivers for it? do you have all the updates from Windows Update? On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 12:13:03 -0800, Stanor wrote: Stanor - I have a worse problem with the sleep mode. The computer puts itself into sleep mode if I don't touch it for about 30 seconds, and then it is almost impossible to get it to come out of sleep mode whatever I do. Even booting up the computer again doesn't always solve the problem. Any suggestions from anyone would be appreciated. "Barb Bowman" wrote: also, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941649 which seems to be fixing lots of misc. problems. On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:01:01 -0700, jhackp3b8 wrote: My problem is that when my computer goes into sleep mode, once it is wakened, I have to restart the computer in order to reconnect to the internet. If I don't the network says "identifying NETGEAR (my home network)" and under Access: it says Local only instead of Local and Internet. I tried doing the power options thing, but my computer was already set to the option suggested. I also tried the command prompt thing, but I have no idea what it means or what I should do about it. It is incredibly inconvenient to restart the whole system in order to regain internet connectivity with my network. The only thing I can think of is resetting the sleep options so that either it doesn't sleep or to set the timer to a much higher time. That's ok if it's plugged in, but if I'm using the battery that option will eventually kill the battery life. Please help... "BuzzLightyear" wrote: To make Windows go to sleep mode correctly I have to disable the option to wake up the system with the keyboard, otherwise it goes to sleep mode but suddenly restarts. Also, after restoring from sleep mode, network connectivity doesn't work and using Network diagnosis I have to restore LAN settings -- Barb Bowman MS Windows-MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ -- Barb Bowman MS Windows-MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ |
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Problems with sleep
If the machine is giving up during boot up, it is most likely a driver
problem. It is time to do a system restore with that disk you made when you first got it or was supplied with it. As the previous poster advised, it is probably a video driver that was installed as an update. If you can get the machine to boot, do a system restore to a restore point before that update. If it won't start windows, you'll probably have to do a Windows restore for the disks above. Good luck. "Stanor" wrote in message ... What happens when I boot up the computer again it automatically goes into sleep mode while it is booting up. I just then have a blank screen. My computer is a Dell ACPI x86-based PC with the Vista Home Premium with an Inspiron 530 hard drive. As far as I know I have all the updates from Windows Update - this is a brand new computer, about 3 months old "Barb Bowman" wrote: what do you mean "booting up the computer again doesn't always solve the problem"? what exactly happens? what do you see? what errors are in the event log? what kind of computer? what video card and do you have the latest drivers for it? do you have all the updates from Windows Update? On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 12:13:03 -0800, Stanor wrote: Stanor - I have a worse problem with the sleep mode. The computer puts itself into sleep mode if I don't touch it for about 30 seconds, and then it is almost impossible to get it to come out of sleep mode whatever I do. Even booting up the computer again doesn't always solve the problem. Any suggestions from anyone would be appreciated. "Barb Bowman" wrote: also, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941649 which seems to be fixing lots of misc. problems. On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:01:01 -0700, jhackp3b8 wrote: My problem is that when my computer goes into sleep mode, once it is wakened, I have to restart the computer in order to reconnect to the internet. If I don't the network says "identifying NETGEAR (my home network)" and under Access: it says Local only instead of Local and Internet. I tried doing the power options thing, but my computer was already set to the option suggested. I also tried the command prompt thing, but I have no idea what it means or what I should do about it. It is incredibly inconvenient to restart the whole system in order to regain internet connectivity with my network. The only thing I can think of is resetting the sleep options so that either it doesn't sleep or to set the timer to a much higher time. That's ok if it's plugged in, but if I'm using the battery that option will eventually kill the battery life. Please help... "BuzzLightyear" wrote: To make Windows go to sleep mode correctly I have to disable the option to wake up the system with the keyboard, otherwise it goes to sleep mode but suddenly restarts. Also, after restoring from sleep mode, network connectivity doesn't work and using Network diagnosis I have to restore LAN settings -- Barb Bowman MS Windows-MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ -- Barb Bowman MS Windows-MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ |
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Problems with sleep
Dean-Dean, I had to do some searching. My Vista windows must be set up a bit
differently. My system finally goes to sleep mode whereas previously onlt the monitor shut down. Thank you! "dean-dean" wrote: You might want to check out this setting. Go to Control Panel\Power Options, and under your chosen Plan, on the right-side of the window, choose "Change plan settings". On the new Edit Plan Settings window, click on "Change advanced power settings". A new dialog will pop up. Expand the "Multimedia settings" entry, and then expand the "When sharing media" entry. Change it to "Allow the computer to sleep" (Apply, OK). "BuzzLightyear" wrote in message ... To make Windows go to sleep mode correctly I have to disable the option to wake up the system with the keyboard, otherwise it goes to sleep mode but suddenly restarts. Also, after restoring from sleep mode, network connectivity doesn't work and using Network diagnosis I have to restore LAN settings |
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