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Ready Boost Messes with Hybrid Sleep

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DaveBC

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I notice that sleep works fine when I disable ready boost and pull out the thumb drive.

When it is enabled it only goes off for a few minutes then back on again. And won't wake up properly forcing a reset.

I have several tasks scheduled during the nights. All start up and shut down fine, without ready boost enabled. And the system wakes up without a hitch.

Any thoughts?😕

Edit: High Definition Audio, in the system devices control panel. The power management tabe had the "allow this device to wake the computer" option enabled. I disabled it and it works now.
 
It doesn't tell you why it woke up? Does it do the same thing if you've just got a normal file open on the USB drive?
 
Originally posted by: DaveBC
I notice that sleep works fine when I disable ready boost and pull out the thumb drive.

When it is enabled it only goes off for a few minutes then back on again. And won't wake up properly forcing a reset.

I have several tasks scheduled during the nights. All start up and shut down fine, without ready boost enabled. And the system wakes up without a hitch.

Any thoughts?😕
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You star!

Mine does the same, now my only problem is vista not recognizing my usb devices when it comes out of sleep.

Its a bit of a ah heck cos both my mouse and keyboard are usb 🙁
 
Originally posted by: NewMaxx
I think that was fixed in the USB rollup, WelshBloke...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936003

Specifically, 928631 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928631/) A USB device may no longer work correctly after Windows Vista resumes from sleep or from hibernation.

You normally have to go through Microsoft support to get this, but you can also find it here:
x86: http://thehotfixshare.net/boar...dex.php?showtopic=3611
x64: http://thehotfixshare.net/boar...dex.php?showtopic=3610
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Thank you very, very much for that. :thumbsup:
 
No problem, let me know how it goes. I'm still looking into the OP's problem, although it is a known issue that ReadyBoost can cause sluggishness when coming out of sleep mode (which will be fixed).
 
Originally posted by: NewMaxx
No problem, let me know how it goes. I'm still looking into the OP's problem, although it is a known issue that ReadyBoost can cause sluggishness when coming out of sleep mode (which will be fixed).
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Sleep with and without readyboost seems to work now, but my wireless conection is totally borked after it comes out of sleep mode.
It seems to connect but as an 'unidentified network' and the only thing that will fix it is a reboot.

Cheers and sorry to the OP for the thread jack
 
Originally posted by: WelshBloke
Originally posted by: NewMaxx
No problem, let me know how it goes. I'm still looking into the OP's problem, although it is a known issue that ReadyBoost can cause sluggishness when coming out of sleep mode (which will be fixed).
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Sleep with and without readyboost seems to work now, but my wireless conection is totally borked after it comes out of sleep mode.
It seems to connect but as an 'unidentified network' and the only thing that will fix it is a reboot.

Cheers and sorry to the OP for the thread jack
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Well, perhaps that rollup will help him, too. Also, the rollup lists a number of individual fixes that make it up...you can download just the ones you need (from the site I linked), and maybe avoid ones that break your wireless (if applicable) or give you problems.

I do have another idea for your wireless issue, though. Go to the Control Panel, Network and Sharing Center, then click on "Manage network connections" in the left pane. Right-click the wireless connection and hit Properties. Click Configure, then the Power Management tab. Uncheck "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" and apply.
 
Thanks for the replys,

symptoms are similar but not quite the same. I don't have any issues with network or USB. They all work fine when Vista resumes. That is... When Vista resumes without ready boost.

When ready boost is enabled, my problem is:

1. PC sleeps for only a minute or two.
2. Never quite wakes up completely, freezes with black screen.
3. Reset, when used, begins to boot, then offers choices:
a. Resume windows. Which when selected goes back to the black screen freeze.
b. New boot, which works fine, until next time to sleep.

OS is patched to current via windows update. I suppose ready boost is not really necessary. I have 4 gigs of system memory and I just play games mostly. It is a feature I wanted to explore maybe less disk thrashing on game like STALKER.

Thanks,

DaveBC😎

 
Well, I just want to state that some or all of the fixes in that rollup aren't on Windows Update, if you didn't take a peek at them.

Also a temporary solution might be making a .bat file or two to disable/enable ReadyBoost when you're leaving the computer. I believe that ReadyBoost currently reinitializes after resuming from sleep (again, that performance issue will be fixed down the road), so you won't be losing much by doing it that way.

If you want to do this, simply open notepad and type:

net stop readyboost
@cls

...to stop ReadyBoost...

net start readyboost
@cls

...to start it again.

The files need to be saved with the .bat extension and need to be run as administrator.
 
Originally posted by: NewMaxx
Well, I just want to state that some or all of the fixes in that rollup aren't on Windows Update, if you didn't take a peek at them.

Also a temporary solution might be making a .bat file or two to disable/enable ReadyBoost when you're leaving the computer. I believe that ReadyBoost currently reinitializes after resuming from sleep (again, that performance issue will be fixed down the road), so you won't be losing much by doing it that way.

If you want to do this, simply open notepad and type:

net stop readyboost
@cls

...to stop ReadyBoost...

net start readyboost
@cls

...to start it again.

The files need to be saved with the .bat extension and need to be run as administrator.
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Thanks NewMaxx,

I have read over the hot fix and installed it. I will give it a go.

Also, I noticed you can disable ready boost by right clicking on the drive in the "my computer" folder and selecting disable on the ready boost tab.

Not Alot of replys to this question must not be that wide spread of problem.

 
Yeah, you can disable it that way, too...just offering alternatives. Yeah, haven't seen your problem too often, usually people complain about slowness from ReadyBoost after coming out of sleep rather than a total failure.
 
Originally posted by: DaveBC
Originally posted by: NewMaxx
Well, I just want to state that some or all of the fixes in that rollup aren't on Windows Update, if you didn't take a peek at them.

Also a temporary solution might be making a .bat file or two to disable/enable ReadyBoost when you're leaving the computer. I believe that ReadyBoost currently reinitializes after resuming from sleep (again, that performance issue will be fixed down the road), so you won't be losing much by doing it that way.

If you want to do this, simply open notepad and type:

net stop readyboost
@cls

...to stop ReadyBoost...

net start readyboost
@cls

...to start it again.

The files need to be saved with the .bat extension and need to be run as administrator.
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Thanks NewMaxx,

I have read over the hot fix and installed it. I will give it a go.

Also, I noticed you can disable ready boost by right clicking on the drive in the "my computer" folder and selecting disable on the ready boost tab.

Not Alot of replys to this question must not be that wide spread of problem.
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Darn! No Worky. Put it to sleep last nite, it was running when i woke up.

I suppose I should get used to shutting down.

I was really hoping to use the feature to run tasks during the night, Virus Scan, Defrag, Widnows Defender and the like. Each are configured to run on different nights.

I have tasks configured to "run with highest privledge" and and "wake the computer for tasks" enabled. And the sleep settings are set to 15 minutes on the monitor and 20 minutes on hybrid sleep.

Any thing else I might have overlooked?

Dave😕

 
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