John Hanley

"Rock" <Rock@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> "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]

I have looked for BIOS updates, and HP customer service looked also, but the
BIOS that shipped with the machine is the latest version. I also looked for
driver updates, and (as far as I can tell) all mine are up to date. My
machine was delivered new to me on May 25th.