Sounds like the keyboard driver doesn't support the sleep function. Check
for an updated one from the manufacturer, and if none is available you may
need to disable sleep mode.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
"Hiawatha Bray" <watha@monitortan.com> wrote in message
news:4EEF1549-76D9-45FC-918D-731777BA78B9@microsoft.com...
> I'm running Vista Ultimate. It's set to the balanced power plan, which
> means that it puts the computer to sleep after one hour of inactivity.
> Just one little problem. It won't wake up. When I touch the mouse, I see
> the login screen, but I can't type anything in it. Eventually, a screen
> saver starts to run, But the computer will not resume what it was doing,
> and I'm locked out of it and must reboot. Anybody got any idea why this
> happens? It's certainly gotten me thinking that the sleep mode is utterly
> broken...