Vista 32 bit x86 RTM and laptop

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When I close the lid of my laptop and open it later, the display does not
come on. I try pushing the various buttons on the laptop, but nothing works.
I have to do a hard power off and then reboot.

Help please.

Thanks in advance.
 
Todd Hudson said:
When I close the lid of my laptop and open it later, the display does not
come on. I try pushing the various buttons on the laptop, but nothing
works. I have to do a hard power off and then reboot.
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Do you have an nVidia graphics card?

I had to install the old Windows XP drivers to get sleep working properly on
mine. Hopefully nVidia will have it resolved soon.

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Todd Hudson said:
When I close the lid of my laptop and open it later, the display does not come on. I try
pushing the various buttons on the laptop, but nothing works. I have to do a hard power off
and then reboot.

Help please.

Thanks in advance.
Click to expand...

Try pushing your power button once, don't hold it down.

I had this problem with early betas, pushing the power button
briefly, caused the computer to come back to life.


-Michael
 
When I close the lid of my laptop and open it later, the display does
not come on. I try pushing the various buttons on the laptop, but
nothing works. I have to do a hard power off and then reboot.

Help please.

Thanks in advance.
Click to expand...


Same problem here, Sony Vaio FS-295XP, RTM Ultimate.

Power Management is definately the weak point of Vista, it's stull buggy
as hell, on my laptop and desktop.
 
I had about the same problem with my ASUS notebook, both at XP and VISTA.
The resume from sleep function does not work very well each time.

When it was not working, after you press the power button, I could only hear the sound of the system fan, and nothing happened.
I had to press the power button and hold it there for a few second to shut down the annoying system fan....

Then I found an article which describe a similar scenario.
It said some of the device driver will cause the system to go to sleep mode only "halfly".
Therein, you are not in a complete sleep mode, so you will not resume from that correct point.

What I did is, I disconnect the wireless LAN or switch off the wireless function everytime before I initiate the sleep command.
Now, my notebook goes to sleep and resuem without a problem.

You can try some of these thinkings.

Timu
 
It is an nVidia graphics card.

I edited the sleep where do nothign is what it is supposed to do if the lid
is closed.

Michael

I had about the same problem with my ASUS notebook, both at XP and VISTA.
The resume from sleep function does not work very well each time.

When it was not working, after you press the power button, I could only hear
the sound of the system fan, and nothing happened.
I had to press the power button and hold it there for a few second to shut
down the annoying system fan....

Then I found an article which describe a similar scenario.
It said some of the device driver will cause the system to go to sleep mode
only "halfly".
Therein, you are not in a complete sleep mode, so you will not resume from
that correct point.

What I did is, I disconnect the wireless LAN or switch off the wireless
function everytime before I initiate the sleep command.
Now, my notebook goes to sleep and resuem without a problem.

You can try some of these thinkings.

Timu
 
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