sleep mode revival: claims improper shutdown

[rh71]

Vista64 SP2 on my desktop, I want to put it to sleep every night for a quick resume in the morning. I would've used hibernate like on my XP laptop but Vista doesn't have one in the shutdown options.

Anyway, on my vista desktop, when I wake it up via keyboard mashing, it comes back with the black BIOS screen that says it was improperly shutdown and if I want to boot up in safe mode or start windows normally. I start it normally and after regular bootup screens, after windows loads, it shows me solutions and a cause was a blue screen. I saw no such thing when it was going to sleep.

Why is this happening? My XP laptop is sleeping (it calls it standby with a moon icon) without issue - I hit the function key and it wakes up immediately back to a useable screen. Hibernate also works on the laptop though bootup takes longer of course.

 

[Nothinman]

What was the cause it listed? Most likely some driver in Vista isn't liking the sleeping.

 

[Chunkee]

This seems to be very common....my vista box does same thing..but not all the time...i have switched to an ATI card, and so far I have had no shutdowns during sleep...?

It is very frustrating. My abit would post with showing no windows installation, but i figured it out...it switched the order of the hard drives....why, i have no fugging clue..

 

[rh71]

well I tried sleep again after disabling immediate reboot upon BSOD so I can see any errors, but at no point did I see a BSOD take place. It powered down within seconds after doing Sleep, then this morning I hit the mouse button and it woke, but there was no video feed and the keyboard wasn't responsive (numlock didn't work, etc.). I had to power down via power button (hold 5 secs). I'm at a loss.