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pmills
I have a Vista Ultimate machine that will not reliably sleep or wake up.
Through web searches, I have learned that these problems are often related
to hardware driver issues. I have two pieces of hardware that are often
mentioned in reference to Vista sleep problems - an NVidia 8800 GTX and an
X-fi sound card. I have tried the most current drivers available from the
hardware manufacturers, as well as some beta drivers, and attempted various
fixes as recommended by many of the troubleshooting tips I have found on the
web.
All this has been to no avail.
When I try to sleep the computer, it usually turns off the monitor and hangs
with the fans still running. On rare occasions, it will go ahead and shut
down, but waking the computer to a usable state is then not possible because
the monitor stays powered down upon waking. Any attempt to sleep or wake
the computer eventually results in my having to hold the power switch down
and force a restart.
My question: Is there a reliable method (reviewing events, logs, etc.) to
pin down more precisely which problem or problems I'm having with
sleep/wake? I have a second hard drive with a bootable copy of Windows XP
Pro which I used previously on this machine, and it sleeps and wakes
instantly and reliably with all of the same hardware.
Thanks for any information anyone would be willing to provide about how I
can troubleshoot this problem.
Through web searches, I have learned that these problems are often related
to hardware driver issues. I have two pieces of hardware that are often
mentioned in reference to Vista sleep problems - an NVidia 8800 GTX and an
X-fi sound card. I have tried the most current drivers available from the
hardware manufacturers, as well as some beta drivers, and attempted various
fixes as recommended by many of the troubleshooting tips I have found on the
web.
All this has been to no avail.
When I try to sleep the computer, it usually turns off the monitor and hangs
with the fans still running. On rare occasions, it will go ahead and shut
down, but waking the computer to a usable state is then not possible because
the monitor stays powered down upon waking. Any attempt to sleep or wake
the computer eventually results in my having to hold the power switch down
and force a restart.
My question: Is there a reliable method (reviewing events, logs, etc.) to
pin down more precisely which problem or problems I'm having with
sleep/wake? I have a second hard drive with a bootable copy of Windows XP
Pro which I used previously on this machine, and it sleeps and wakes
instantly and reliably with all of the same hardware.
Thanks for any information anyone would be willing to provide about how I
can troubleshoot this problem.