Sometimes screen blanks out after waking up from sleep

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Jay Moore

Hi.

I have an Acer Aspire 5100 that came installed with Vista Home Premium. I
upgraded to SP1 and, after upgrading to 4 gigs of ram i learned because Acer
messed up video addressing, i can only get 2.96gb when i'm using 64mb of ram
for video...increasing the amount makes the amount of ram to windows drop
exponetally (at 256mb i've only got 2 gigs..it's wasting almost half the
ram)...but that's not my issue..i'll never get it resolved becuase Acer is
none-too-interested in actually doing anything to fix it and telling me it's
"my problem". Oh well.

I do have a strange issue. When I take my laptop out I generally put it to
sleep...I don't like hibernate..it's never worked for me in the past and
sleep is just so much faster and convient. The sleep mode has worked
surprisingly well for me, but i'm notcing a strange oddity. Every once in a
while after bringing the laptop out of sleep mode...the screen will come
on...but then it'll flicker out. If i can manage to click on the password
prompt before it turns off and enter my password, the screen will come back
on after the session logs in...however most of the time I have to put it
back to sleep and wake it back up.

this really isn't a major major problem..i know nothing is going to work
flawlessly all the time. I'm just wondering if anyone else has seen this
behavior and if they fixed it, what they did to do so. I can live with it,
but it'd be nice to see it gone too, ya know?

Other than that...and the time the kernel-driver framework driver died...I'm
quite impressed with Vista..it's turning out to be a rather usable OS.
 
Jay Moore said:
Hi.

I have an Acer Aspire 5100 that came installed with Vista Home Premium. I
upgraded to SP1 and, after upgrading to 4 gigs of ram i learned because
Acer messed up video addressing, i can only get 2.96gb when i'm using 64mb
of ram for video...increasing the amount makes the amount of ram to
windows drop exponetally (at 256mb i've only got 2 gigs..it's wasting
almost half the ram)...but that's not my issue..i'll never get it resolved
becuase Acer is none-too-interested in actually doing anything to fix it
and telling me it's "my problem". Oh well.

I do have a strange issue. When I take my laptop out I generally put it to
sleep...I don't like hibernate..it's never worked for me in the past and
sleep is just so much faster and convient. The sleep mode has worked
surprisingly well for me, but i'm notcing a strange oddity. Every once in
a while after bringing the laptop out of sleep mode...the screen will come
on...but then it'll flicker out. If i can manage to click on the password
prompt before it turns off and enter my password, the screen will come
back on after the session logs in...however most of the time I have to put
it back to sleep and wake it back up.

this really isn't a major major problem..i know nothing is going to work
flawlessly all the time. I'm just wondering if anyone else has seen this
behavior and if they fixed it, what they did to do so. I can live with it,
but it'd be nice to see it gone too, ya know?

Other than that...and the time the kernel-driver framework driver
died...I'm quite impressed with Vista..it's turning out to be a rather
usable OS.
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When you want to use your PC. Turn On power.
Use Computer.
When finished. Power Down Computer.

Problem Solved.
 
I bet your mother must of been really proud when you graduated from the
"special" school.
 
Jay Moore said:
I bet your mother must of been really proud when you graduated from the
"special" school.
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Yes she did. When I got my computer science degree, she bought me a car for
graduation. Thanks for asking.
 
Aww...did she buy you the Hummer PowerWheels for your birthday.

seriously, GTFU. some people actually want help.
 
Jay Moore said:
Aww...did she buy you the Hummer PowerWheels for your birthday.

seriously, GTFU. some people actually want help.
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Hmmm. you provided lots of HELP with your post. What a ****ing moron.
Wern't you told the other day to use a killfile? What about your self
control? What? Don't have self control? Better see a psychiatrist.
Hurry.....
 
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