Vista Wont resume From Sleep Mode

[Typhax64]

hi,

unfortunately my vista ultimate plays up alot when i resume from sleep.

the cpu always runs alot hotter, even thought it does not seem to be under any load, and the whloe systme is sluggish. to slove the problem i have to restart everytime.

and sometimes it doesnt sleep, it just restarts, but with the same problems as before.

my setup is an opteron 170 in a dfi lan party deluxe with 2gb of ocz. i can remeber which bios i have but its a modded one from dfi street (which has been great thus far)

as always, any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.


Thanks

 

[mayest]

Do you have an Nvidia graphics card? Their Vista drivers can cause the PC to not wake up from sleep mode. It is a known and unfixed problem.

 

[ricehero]

i kinda have the same issue..... when coming out of sleep mode my sound just decides not to work

 

[Puffnstuff]

I can't go to sleep at all:Q but I can hybernate just fine. I've found that it's worse with vista 64 than with 32 so I just either hybernate or shut down.

 

[Looney]

I have a 6800 Go Ultra in my laptop, and i have no problem with sleep or waking from it.

 

[Genx87]

My machine has an interesting issue with sleep. It powers down but keeps the fans on, then randomly come out of sleep. My wifes computer powers down and powers off without issue. Hit the KB and it comes back.

I really havent cared enough to look into it.

 

[Typhax64]

Hello,

Thanks for the reply. Yes i have a 7900 gtx, and the latest nvidia drivers.

Still have no idea whats goin on tho.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Typhax64
Hello, Thanks for the reply. Yes i have a 7900 gtx, and the latest nvidia drivers. Still have no idea whats goin on tho.

As posted "Do you have an Nvidia graphics card? Their Vista drivers can cause the PC to not wake up from sleep mode. It is a known and unfixed problem" Your probably stuck until nVidia fixes this in their drivers...

 

[aviwil]

I have a new PC with Vista Home Premium 32 , and Nvidia 8400GS . I have problems with Sleep/hybernate etc . Is there still a problem with Nvidia boards ?

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: Typhax64
hi,

unfortunately my vista ultimate plays up alot when i resume from sleep.

the cpu always runs alot hotter, even thought it does not seem to be under any load, and the whloe systme is sluggish. to slove the problem i have to restart everytime.

and sometimes it doesnt sleep, it just restarts, but with the same problems as before.

my setup is an opteron 170 in a dfi lan party deluxe with 2gb of ocz. i can remeber which bios i have but its a modded one from dfi street (which has been great thus far)

as always, any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.


Thanks

I have a HP laptop with Vista32 and an nVidia 7600Go graphics card. I can wake from sleep without issue or incident. I'm using a hacked .inf with the latest (or very recent - Jan 08 or so) nVidia drivers, not the dinosaur version from HP's web page.

 

[aviwil]

Dclive thanks - I also have an HP Laptop with Intel X3100 integrated graphics board and the Hybernate/sleep is no problem . Another question re your reply - I also am dissaponited with HP's "dinosaur"drivers as you put it - but I thought you have to use their drivers , as they do some 3rd party something or other ? I know Intel has new drivers for this board - can I install them safely ?

 

[dclive]

You can do anything you like - what happens after that is unpredictable.

Seriously, the vendors for laptop hardware are supposed to customize their drivers for their particular hardware, taking advantage of any special features or special hardware customizations they may have made. If you don't install their drivers, unpredictable things may happen. Then again (and 99.9% of the time) maybe they won't. The net result, though, is usually these special drivers are woefully out of date and never updated or infrequently updated once the laptop ships.

To get around this, basically you need to hack the INF that permits the generic driver to permit installing on this customized hardware.

 

[aviwil]

Dclive , I take it that hacking the INF file is something for experts ?

 

[dclive]

Basically it involves finding the hardware numbers (easily found in device manager in XPSP2 or newer) that are in the INF that does install, copying that section into the INF of the newer driver version that doesn't install, using that modified INF for the install.

You can learn it....