"Bradley" <bradley.a.thomas@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:O359EFR%23HHA.1208@xxxxxx
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> Hi,
>
> I am running Windows Vista Home Premium on a slightly older machine with
> 2.66ghz Pentium 4 and 2gb ram and can not get Vista to sleep. If I select
> sleep from the power options on start menu, or press the sleep button on
> my keyboard the machine will power down as if entering sleep mode, but it
> will then very quickly restart, however the desktop won't load. The screen
> stays blank and the only option left is to press the reset button located
> on the tower.
>
> However when I hit the reset button the machine does not simply reset
> every time. On occassions it will, but on other occasions it will resume
> Windows from the sleep state earlier requested. But the desktop will still
> not load. My monitor stays totall blank.
>
> I have tried the obvious potential solutions including disabling the
> ability of my mouse and keyboard to resume the computer from sleep mode,
> in the anticipation that I would simply use the power button. I have also
> disabled the ability of the ethernet port to wake the computer from sleep
> mode when I thought it possible that my ADSL connection was waking the
> machine. I have also updated my graphics port drivers too.
>
> Could this be a hardware issue or does it sound like something which is
> related to Windows, and if so does anyone know if MS is planning to issue
> any patch or any fix in a future Service Pack for Vista?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bradley
Have you checked to see if there is an updated BIOS available for your
motherboard? It's entirely possible that your PC's motherboard/BIOS doesn't
fully support all Vista features.