Vista Sleep Issues

Ive had a recent issue with vista not beeing able to enter any form of sleep mode. Ive managed to fix the problem & was due to some screw up with my x-fi sound card. This is mainly here for my reference incase i ever run into it again, but ive heard of loads of issues with x-fi & vista sleeping.

PROBLEM: I tell vista to sleep, screen goes blank, but pc doesnt actually turn off, fans keep spinning etc.

FIX: Download latest x-fi drivers from creative site, DRIVERS ONLY!!Then go into power options & disable hybrid sleep! Uninstall every last piece of creative software via add/remove programs, DO NOT RESTART just select no i dont want to restart every time. Go into device manager & find your x-fi card, right click & choose uninstall. Find any other pci device (not pci-e) in device manager(network cards, physics cards etc) right click each one & select disable for all of them. NOW SHUT DOWN YOUR PC!

Unplug power cords etc & remove the side panel. Remove your x-fi first then the rest of your pci cards (not pci-e). Give your pc a minute or so, then put your x-fi back in the same pci slot, followed by the rest of your pci devices in their previous slots.

Boot up, go into bios, find the PCI PnP section & enable Plug & Play O/S, save changes & exit.

Install the latest x-fi drivers from the creative website you downloaded earlier. Reboot when needed.

Once loaded up, test to see if your pc sleeps. If it does, disable all the startup s**t in msconfig, restart, then test sleep. If it works, install other creative utilities you need/had installed.

I had this happening to me again but for a totally random reason that seemed to be fixed by turning off "Bios EHCI Hand off" in my bios.

Afterwards id get a random problem where playing any game after sleeping my pc (standard or hybrid) where the game would freeze after 3-7 minutes of play.

I managed to fix it but not sure what i did. Some of the things i changed seem to go against what i put above but what the hell.

1 - Disable Creative Audio Service in services.msc

2 - Go into your bios & disable plug & play O/S & Allocate IRQ to PCI VGA

3 - Enable ACPI 2.0 Support

4 - Run disk checker

5 - Download latest beta graphics drivers from nvidia & uninstall the old ones, restart & if vista installs your graphics card again, uninstall via Device Manager.

5 - Install the drivers for your graphics card.

Like i said, some of this stuff will contradict the other stuff, but seeing as this is such a crazy problem im not surprised.

Again, more issues where it would hang on entering sleep. Vista gets arsed when you set your ide/sata device pio mode as anything other than auto.

Putting vista to sleep is so delicate, id be better off with some tranquiliser!

sigh, xbox 360 controller for windows wont let it sleep either.....

Fix - Turn legecy USB Support to Auto.

Right i think i may be onto something,

I kept getting this problem randomly 1 out of 6 times i tried to standby. I did a fresh install after messing up my xfi drivers & found that it didnt have any problem going into sleep/hibernation. Then i install asus pcprobe which starts to cause it again. What happens is pcprobe causes the atk update from windows update to install even if you tell it not to, it also installs acpi center (aacenter.exe)

acpi has something to do with power so i decided to restore my pc backup & not install pcprobe & so far it has not happend.

You should be able to set your UDMA mode in the BIOS and on the IDE controller. You don't need them for SATA. ACPI should be enabled before you install your OS.

i enabled ahci dont know if theres anything to do with acpi in my bios.

lol whatever i try to fix this issue it always comes back. & its always indirectly related to my x-fi card. After performing scan disk on my pc again it wouldnt sleep so i uninstall the drivers & it sleeps fine, even after reinstalling the drivers. But straight after i perform a scan again & it does it again. Well ive decided to look around for other sound cards now. Vista has been out for over a year & the xfi drivers still cause crazy issues.

all these sleep problems are/where related to a totally botched motherboard. Sent it away for replacement (got exactly same type of board back) & it sleeps flawlessly everytime. We had about 5 metres of mains supply explode about a year ago, which totalled my psu. after which my mb was displaying weird symptoms of not booting after cleaning some of the fans, not booting when i enabled q fan & the bios becoming really slow at responding. vista not sleeping must have been another issue caused by this.