Vista insomnia

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I scanned the forum and didn't see a problem quite like mine. My laptop
will sleep fine when I tell it to. It stays asleep and wakes fine. The
problem is that it doesn't always enter sleep mode automatically as I
specified in the power settings. Any ideas? Thank you!
 
gpzbc said:
I scanned the forum and didn't see a problem quite like mine. My laptop
will sleep fine when I tell it to. It stays asleep and wakes fine. The
problem is that it doesn't always enter sleep mode automatically as I
specified in the power settings. Any ideas? Thank you!
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Wireless USB mouse?
 
nope, no usb devices. And I went through and checked all of the settings in
the device manager to make sure that nothing besides the keyboard can wake it
up.
 
Well I have made progress in figuring this out. I closed the sidebar and
set the power saving settings to happen sooner. My screen saver comes on
okay. But at ten minutes when the monitor is supposed to shut off, it
flickers back to my desktop screen and starts the process over. So it never
makes it to the point of sleep. Any ideas on how to fix this??
 
update!

I have figured out that it will shut off the monitor and sleep as long as it
is not doing it from the screen saver. If I set the power saver options to
happen before the screen saver, it works. I can disable the screen saver for
now, but any ideas?

Please Help! Thank you.
 
gpzbc said:
update!

I have figured out that it will shut off the monitor and sleep as long as
it
is not doing it from the screen saver. If I set the power saver options
to
happen before the screen saver, it works. I can disable the screen saver
for
now, but any ideas?

Please Help! Thank you.
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Try it with a different screensaver.
 
I have tried it with the Windows logo and also the Aurora and neither of them
allowed the computer to sleep or turn off the monitor. I haven't tried any
other ones. Perhaps I will. I just assumed that if one or two didn't work
then none would work.
 
gpzbc said:
I have tried it with the Windows logo and also the Aurora and neither of
them
allowed the computer to sleep or turn off the monitor. I haven't tried
any
other ones. Perhaps I will. I just assumed that if one or two didn't
work
then none would work.
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I suggested it because some folks were having the problem only with the
Photo screensaver, but many are having it with all screensavers as
apparently are you. Some people recommend trying a different video driver,
but this doesn't seem to be a consistent fix. If you Google "screensaver
sleep" and limit the search to Microsoft vista groups you will see all the
threads.
 
I guess I will just have to wait for a fix. In the meantime, I am probably
saving more power by not enabling the screen saver and having it go directly
to sleep or to turn off the monitor.
 
I also have similar Vista sleep problems.
Example:

A) After pressing the ‘half moon’ keyboard sleep button:
a) The monitor screen blanked out, then came back on in five seconds; no
power down.
b) Tower power button stayed blue.
B) Pressing the sleep button a 2nd time blanked the screen and powered down
the hard drive, but not the fans; tower power button turned amber
C) Neither space bar nor mouse awakens system at that point
D) To recover had to turn off the computer at the tower power button and
restart.
E) After getting the normal HP boot screen, got the black Windows Error
Screen "Windows did not shut down successfully"
which counted down and segued to the log in screen.
F) Same effect if invoking sleep from Start ‘Power’ button.

This behavior is repeatable; the first invocation of Sleep causes the screen
to go off and on, and things work normally. A 2nd sleep invocation freezes
the system in a kind suspended animation. At times in my experimenting, I
got the blue screen: "Stop: 0x00008086", but that has not been repeatable.

Things I have tried to circumvent the problem:
- unchecked "Allow this device to wake the computer" for my Network Adapter
Power Management (no help)
-verified that my Nvidia graphics card has its latest driver

It also appears that if the system is put to sleep by the power option, it
will also not reawaken from the keyboard or mouse; requires total power
shutdown and restart.

Have looked around for other solutions as you did, and found numerous
references to sleep and power option problems, but no good solutions yet.
For the time being, I am leaving the system running.

HP Pavilion d4890y desktop.....Intel Core 2 Duo processor E6420 (2.13GHz)
.....2GB DDR2-667MHz dual channel SDRAM (2x1024).....250GB 7200 rpm SATA 3
GB/s hard drive.....256MB NVIDIA GeForce 7500LE graphics card.....HP w2207
22-inch Widescreen Flat-Panel Monitor.....Power supply 350 watts.....OEM
Vista Home Premium.....Norton Internet Security 2007.....Standard wired
keyboard and mouse
 
I think I have finally resolved my Vista sleep problem. My solution path
was:

-my HP Pavilion Vista system did sleep properly between May 25th (when I
bought it) and June 13th; after that it began either not going to sleep or
not waking from sleep.

-on June 13th I had attempted to install software to run my HP Scanjet 3970
from a CD in drive E: I thought I had verified that the hardware and
software would run on Vista, but evidently I was wrong; the scanner software
appeared to partially install, but not completely; I subsequently
uninstalled the programs.

-I realized later that one artifact of the abortive installation remained, a
reference to a program called zzzhpsetup.exe

-I found zzzhpsetup in the list of msconfig Startup tab items. After I
unchecked it, and did a reboot, the sleep function started to work ok.

-zzzhpsetup did not show up in a full system search. Its msconfig Startup
Command column showed E:\Setup.exe and referenced
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run in the registry; however, there is
no recognizable item for zzzhpsetup in RegEdit. Google searches reveal
almost nothing about such a program, although it seems to show up in
peoples' HJT logs. I will just leave this item unchecked in the msconfig
startup list. I would like to remove it from the listing altogether, but
have not found a way to do this (since it does not show up in the registry).

-At this point, I have returned most of my Power Save options to the default
values and the machine is sleep and waking normally. Obviously I don't have
a cause and effect conclusion that zzzhpsetup was the source of the sleep
problem, but on circumstantial evidence, it seems likely.

Thoughts from anyone would be welcomed.
 
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