really weird thing just happened

[cyrusm]

ok so last night, i wanted to leave my computer on sleep (i use vista ultimate). i tried doing that and for some reason it just wouldnt work. like the monitor shut off, and i could hear the disk etc but nothing showed. so i did a power off (by holding down the off button for a few seconds).

this morning i tried to turn on my computer and it wouldnt let me. so i did the power off in the back (wher the psu is) and then it worked fine.
then, windows came up saying it was coming out of sleep! WTF?
is sleep just really buggy or something and i should avoid it?

 

[genci88]

Yeah, sleep is supposed to be buggy for some people with vanilla Vista installs.

The updates in this thread are supposed to fix the sleep and hibernation issues:

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2081678&enterthread=y

 

[corkyg]

My advice is not to use "Sleep" at all. It has been buggy for a long time. Somethings just never wake up. At night I simply turn off my monitor physically as well as other peripherals. I leave the CPU running - nothing asleep. I have all that automatic junk disabled. Never a problem.

 

[nerp]

I dunno, I haven't had any issues with sleep and hibernate on any of my machines (nforce4, nforce2, intel laptops) since XP. Having my machines sleep after an hour and then hibernate after two has saved me a ton of electricty. I'm trying to conserve power all around my house; keeping the PC from running constantly for no reason seems terribly wasteful.

One option is to simply power down fully when you're not using the machine.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I disable sleep features, and then in Power Management Properties, I set it to "Turn Display Off" after 15-20 minutes.

 

[AllGamer]

aye... i'll recomend the same as the guy above.

In my entire IT career, i've only found just a handful of Laptops that worked properly with the sleep / hibernate, all the rest of the 99% of Desktop and Laptops never worked, it caused more problem, panic, and confusion, than it is worth

so by default we just kill it during our company deployments.

it's easier to tell people to save your work, and turn off the PC, or leave it on in standby, than have them lose their work, then the damn hibernate fails to come back