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Old 01-20-2007   #3 (permalink)
John Barnes


 
 

Re: Vista won't wake properly

If you run powercfg -a from the command prompt you may get helpful
information. If not powercfg /? will give you a litany of items which may
help.

"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...



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