vista bug?

VIAN

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Vista goes to sleep (Hybrid) after 30 minutes. But every time I arrive at my desktop after a few hours, it looks like it was rebooted and just went to sleep mode at the password screen. Then I enter the password and all the taskbar icons have to load up as if the computer was restarted.

Any of this familiar to you?
 

bwatson283

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make sure in your power options, that when you close the lid it goes to sleep not restart.

Or

if that is not it, you got some driver problems.

 

VIAN

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I remember, when I initially installed Vista, the sleep mode worked fine.

Something weird did happen to me that has to do with drivers. I don't remember whether I booted or woke it up from sleep mode, but all of a sudden my sound didn't work and the device manager says my Audigy 2 ZS drivers were uninstalled. But it was still installed under Programs and Features. So, looking to reinstall it, I uninstalled OpenAL. When I rebooted, the sound worked fine and device manager said they were installed so I ignored it. Open AL though is no longer displayed in Programs and Features.
 

Puffnstuff

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I also now have a problem after the last couple of updates. If I place my machine in sleep mode the next time I try to shut it down it will hang. It didn't do this in the beginning but does after the last updates.
 

Frintin

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Vista "Sleep" features are the devil!

Microsoft knows they got problems there and are working on it apparently.

When my Vista computer goes to sleep I have had nvidia 7900GT screen scramble problems on wake and network connection not present on wake, and integrated sound (Sigmatel chipset)channels not present on wake, and and and...