Sleeping system refuses to wake up

[AmberClad]

So here's the situation. I put the system to sleep (using either the Start Menu or by pushing the "Sleep" button on my Microsoft keyboard). All is well and good and the system powers down :moon:. Now when I hit the Sleep button again (or any button) or try waving the mouse around, it doesn't wake up. All I see are the indicator LEDs on the keyboard flashing once. I have to push the power button to bring it out of the sleep mode.

It's not really a big deal, but I guess I was under the impression from reading the ACPI specs a while ago that you could wake a computer out of the S3 state using keyboard/mouse input.

Does this not work with USB input devices?

 

[imported_FishTaco]

Vista 64 wakes from S3 hybrid sleep with my cheap HP multimedia usb keyboard. My Logitech mx510 mouse on usb can also wake up my system.

 

[AmberClad]

Thanks, for the info.

Gah, I should have known that this would turn out to be one of those obscure features buried in the BIOS. "USB KB Wake-UP from S3", and for whatever reason, it was disabled by default.

Also found a couple of other related options: "Wake-Up On LAN", which is pretty self-explanatory. And "Wake-Up by PCI card" -- I have no idea what this does. Both of those are enabled by default apparently.

Go figure...

 

[JackMDS]

Wake On LAN is a special Mode and has nithing to do with sleep mode, see here,

http://www.ezlan.net/WOL.html

Wake-UP by PCI, means out of sleep when there is action in a PCI card.

As an example, if you have LAN PCI any Network traffic would take the computer out of Sleep.