Do all motherboards support vista sleep feature

[rowdyjoe1]

I have a nvida biostar nforce tf560 motherboard and everytime i switch to sleep the led lights on my case are still on.. so im wondering if my motherboard even supports the sleep feature... please answer... THANKS




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Rowdyjoe1

 

[legoman666]

if your computer goes to sleep (IE, everything is powered down) wouldn't that answer your own question?

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: rowdyjoe1
I have a nvida biostar nforce tf560 motherboard and everytime i switch to sleep the led lights on my case are still on.. so im wondering if my motherboard even supports the sleep feature... please answer... THANKS
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Rowdyjoe1

Do the fans turn off when you sleep? What happens when you resume? (specifically - goes right to desktop, resumes from hibernate, reboots entirely etc)

Cant help you without more info.

 

[Nothinman]

Vista's sleep is just standard ACPI sleep, but there's a lot of broken firmware and drivers out there so whether it works or not is very hit or miss.

 

[TheCripple]

I helped rowdyjoe1 build his system this past weekend. What he is asking about is the ACPI S3 sleep state that shuts down the whole system except the ram. My system with Vista64 sleeps in the S3 state where XP did not (Asus nforce4 sli deluxe, 3800+ s939, etc.). Rowdyoe1's system using Vista32 does not, at least not out of the box. Changing the bios option to S3 sleep state only rather than "S1 or S3" results in a hung machine when we try to sleep from vista's start menu. It hangs in what appears to be the S1 state.

His system specs are:
Biostar TF560 A2+ ( http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3051 )
X2 4000+ 2.1ghz stock (brisbane)
2x1GB OCZ DDR2-6400 Platinum Rev2
500GB Samsung SpinPoint-T
OCZ StealthXStream 600SXS
EVGA GeForce 7800GT

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: TheCripple
I helped rowdyjoe1 build his system this past weekend. What he is asking about is the ACPI S3 sleep state that shuts down the whole system except the ram. My system with Vista64 sleeps in the S3 state where XP did not (Asus nforce4 sli deluxe, 3800+ s939, etc.). Rowdyoe1's system using Vista32 does not, at least not out of the box. Changing the bios option to S3 sleep state only rather than "S1 or S3" results in a hung machine when we try to sleep from vista's start menu. It hangs in what appears to be the S1 state.

His system specs are:
Biostar TF560 A2+ ( http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3051 )
X2 4000+ 2.1ghz stock (brisbane)
2x1GB OCZ DDR2-6400 Platinum Rev2
500GB Samsung SpinPoint-T
OCZ StealthXStream 600SXS
EVGA GeForce 7800GT

The only things that have caused my sleep with Vista not to work are creative sound cards and OCs, so I dunno what else it could be, although on the other hand, Ive had issue with suspend in general for years, from win 98 through today. Its incredibly hard to track down the problem, but it has nothing to do with motherboard support.