Rock

"John Hanley" <jphanley@ix.netcom.com> wrote

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> I am one of those with the similar Vista sleep problem. In my disk
> cleanup menu the choice for "Hibernation File Cleaner" is and has been
> unchecked since I got the computer a month ago. As far as I know, I have
> never run Disk Cleanup, so I don't think this is the source of my problem.
> At this point, I have tried most of the possible choices in Power Options,
> Device Manager Power Management settings, etc., but the sleep dysfunction
> remains. The HP help people want me to do a system Recovery, but I am
> reluctant to do that. I do now think there was a time (for the first
> couple of weeks) that the system would go to sleep and wake correctly, but
> am still trying to figure out what might have changed to cause sleep to no
> longer work properly. For a time it would not go into sleep (woke right
> back up); at this time, it will go into sleep (when I invoke a sleep
> button), but bringing it out of sleep gives the BSOD.
>
> At this point, I have the following arrangement of power related items:
> • Power Saver, with ‘Put the computer to sleep: Never (to avoid it going
> into BSOD on its own)
> o Sleep after: Never
> o Allow hybrid sleep: Off
> o Hibernate after: Never
> o Minimum processor state: 5%
> o Maximum processor state: 50%
> o Multimedia/When sharing media: Allow the computer to sleep
> • Device Manager
> o Network adapter, Power Management:
>  Unchecked “Allow the computer to turn off this device…”
>  Unchecked “Allow this device to wake the computer”
> o Universal Serial Bus controllers:
>  USB Root Hub(s), Power Management:
> • Unchecked “Allow this device to wake the computer”
> • Unchecked “Allow the computer to turn off this device…”
> o Fax Modem:
> • Unchecked “Allow this device to wake the computer”
> • Unchecked “Allow the computer to turn off this device…”
> o Mice and Keyboard are allowed to wake the computer. (I tried it with
> these unchecked, but did not help)
>
> Am happy to dialogue with anyone who can help!

Have you looked to see if there is a BIOS update? Are all the drivers the
latest Vista compatible drivers?

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]