Comments on: Vista SP1 Sleep Mode Problem

By: marc

marc — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:58:21 +0000

ksar, thankyou sir, that fixed it for me… i thought this stuff was supposed to update automatically?

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:19:29 +0000

I have a similar problem with a Dell Vostro 420 running Vista Ultimate SP1. Vista sometimes (about 90% of the time) can sleep, hybrid sleep, or hibernate, and sometimes it can’t. The problem is aggravated when using Virtual PC 2007. The system sometimes even doesn’t boot properly (takes too long in a buggy boot, and retards the system clock).

I have tried everything (change power settings, update system BIOS, etc. ). I tried to update the ATI drivers but the updater package just crashed and ruined the ATI catalyst control center. I had to do a system restore (that worked fine, thank God).

The only things that can be trusted are shutdown and wake up.

Perhaps, as Andrea said, it’s better to just give up. Vista is a nice OS, but this kind of things are plain irritating.

By: Stephen Kim

Stephen Kim — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:35:24 +0000

if you have an hp comp. it is definite that updating the bios on it will work. that is the only reason that it will not go to sleep. the outdated bios. it might work for other comps but i know for a fact that all hp comps will sleep after a bios update.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:22:00 +0000

I did, terrific idea Alex ! I switched to “wireless power” in control panel under Blueteeth and now it sleeps all the time and what’s more, that stupid LED has stopped blinking too now.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:12:13 +0000

I resolved my problem! Try to change power supply.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:27:22 +0000

What you really need is a VM. Install any OS on it you happen to like at that moment, make a copy, use the copy and when it gets buggered up just delete it and make a new copy. Instead reinstalling your Windows PC every two weeks you simply throw it away the very moment it misbehaves, boot a fresh copy of the VM and your back in business within a minute and few mouseclicks. I’ve got three VM’s running on my laptop simultaniously with the laptop itself doing nothing else then hosting the VM’s, making backups of them, scanning the one running Windows for viruses and monitoring network traffic.

By: Henry

Henry — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:57:05 +0000

Sleep mode cannot be waked up on my Vista Ultimate after updating with sp1. I make two minor changes in power option according to suggestions previously posted. Go to “Control Panel” -> switch to classic view -> “Power Options”-> Balanced plan -> Change plan settings -> Change advanced power settings.
1. Go to Sleep -> Allow hybrid sleep -> Setting change on to Off
2. Go to Multimedia settings -> When sharing media -> Setting. change “Prevent idling to sleep” to “Allow the computer to sleep”
Now the sleep mode works perfectly on my Vista.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:45:38 +0000

Well people. After two long months of struggling to get SP1 on this machine working without problems a actually finally have got it running. The only way out of the trouble this SP1 thing got me in was to completely reinstall Windows and do SP1 straight over it. The only thing I got out of it is that the machine can now sleep AND it can hibernate, that’s all. So we got a SP1 from Microsoft to make Windows actually be able to hibernate !!!!! Wow, it can now do something XP could do years ago. Really people, SP1 isn’t worth the trouble believe me. If you don’t have a specific urgent reason to (try to) install it, then don’t. Probably it will turn off features you liked before instead of giving you new feateares. It simply isn’t worth the trouble. Antbody interested in getting the remote desktop server working on Vista home premium ?

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:28:27 +0000

Vu, if a computer awakenings from sleep “spontaniously” for no apparent reason it’s usually caused by a device awakening it. Go into device manager and check out the power savings settings of such devices, notably your network interface(s). There is a feature called “wake on LAN” (a usefull one actually, but not in a home situation) that you definitely want to switch off. Type compmgmt.msc at the search/run prompt to find device manager if you can’t find the thing in those horrible menu’s.

By: vu

vu — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:31:19 +0000

I have the same problem with the sleep mode on my XPS M1530. When I put it on sleep mode or close my lid, it restarts itself and forced me to lose my data that I was working on. There are no problem with software that I was running. It just the sleep mode thing. So mad right now. I need something to work right