Toshiba Laptop, Vista, and Sleep

[Burrens78]

So I have a toshiba satellite A135-S4467 which came with Vista Home Premium. The sleep, and hibernation seetings worked with the factory configuration.

Forward about 7 months, and my windows media player refuses to play .mpg files. I decide to format my hard drive, and reinstall a fresh copy of the OS. I did not want all of the crud software Toshiba preinstalls on their systems, so instead of using the restore DVD from them, I used the Vista DVD that came with the PC. I got everything to work now, except the sleep and hibernation functions.

Like I said, these functions used to work before, but they don't seem to work now. Prior to the reformat, when I set the laptop to sleep, it would power down and the power button on the laptop would start flashing an orange color (from the standard solid blue color when it is on) indicating the computer is asleep.

Does anybody know what driver controls the sleep functions on the laptop? I would really hate to have to use the Toshiba restore DVD.

Thanks in advance.

 

[NewMaxx]

I have a similar model laptop and I manually removed most of Toshiba's stuff without any problems in this regard, although I did update several of the drivers by going to Toshiba's site. The options for how to set what the laptop does when the lid is closed, the power button is pressed, etc., can be found under Power Options in the Control Panel. You need to further click "change plan settings" and then "change advanced power settings" in order to access the relevant options. If you have already tried that, I would suggest grabbing Toshiba's software/hardware updater programs from their site, as these will detect what you need.