Just had a very serious bug

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I was just typing a reply to a message in here when the screen went blank
and went into some kind of sleep mode. I could not get windows back with no
matter what key presses I tried.
I had to do a raw shutdown.
Laptop was running on battery and had about 20 minutes left.
Any ideas before I bung in a bug report?
 
I was just typing a reply to a message in here when the screen went
blank and went into some kind of sleep mode. I could not get windows
back with no matter what key presses I tried.
I had to do a raw shutdown.
Laptop was running on battery and had about 20 minutes left.
Any ideas before I bung in a bug report?
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I get the same, happens all the time on my Sony Vaio, with NVidia Geforce
GO6200. Sent the usual bug reports, go the usual emails for feedback about
the bug, and as usual, the links were always blocked, as I am MSDN, not
Connect tester.

Am not bothering raising any more bug reports, it's a waste of time. Even
serious issues like lockups, no sound, graphics driver crashes get closed
without getting fixed, and all I hear back, is how good the Connect
testers are... Screw them.
 
Mark Gillespie said:
I get the same, happens all the time on my Sony Vaio, with NVidia Geforce
GO6200. Sent the usual bug reports, go the usual emails for feedback about
the bug, and as usual, the links were always blocked, as I am MSDN, not
Connect tester.

Am not bothering raising any more bug reports, it's a waste of time. Even
serious issues like lockups, no sound, graphics driver crashes get closed
without getting fixed, and all I hear back, is how good the Connect
testers are... Screw them.
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Does it happen when you use battery or power or both?
 
On my Toshiba, I also have some problems with sleep mode. If I shut the lid
to induce sleep, the computer must be shutdown in order to get back control.
It will not wake up and the screen remains black. Regular sleep mode using
the Vista control will usually come back ok. I've sometimes lost sound after
sleep mode, but I think the latest AC97 drivers (from Realtek, not MS) are
better in this respect. I can't install the Toshiba's own power drivers
because they are incompatible, which may be why the lid closure causes the
computer to crash.
 
Jo said:
On my Toshiba, I also have some problems with sleep mode. If I shut the
lid
to induce sleep, the computer must be shutdown in order to get back
control.
It will not wake up and the screen remains black. Regular sleep mode
using
the Vista control will usually come back ok. I've sometimes lost sound
after
sleep mode, but I think the latest AC97 drivers (from Realtek, not MS) are
better in this respect. I can't install the Toshiba's own power drivers
because they are incompatible, which may be why the lid closure causes the
computer to crash.
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You can disable sleep mode when closing the lid, my problem was it went into
sleep mode while I was using it. LOL
You can disable the sleep by going to control panel -> system maintenance ->
on the power options section choose
"change what the power buttons do", then in the bit for closing the lid
change it from sleep, to do nothing.
 
Thanks, but I don't really want the laptop to stay on when I close the lid.
I'd really like the ability to have it go to sleep when I shut it. Maybe
Toshiba will come up with something that will work with Vista. In XP they
had their own driver that they insisted you use rather than Windows power
controls.
 
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