Sleep, Hibernation & Power Management

Yes, indeed the famous sleep problem that everyone seems to still have.

I have searched high and low for other users with the same problem as I do and did not get anywhere. I have a HP Pavillion M7750N for those who care to know with only one addition to it being a M-Audio Delta 44 sound card for Sound recording purposes.

My problem is that when the computer goes on sleep mode (S3) it hangs untill it finaly reboots and brings up an error in windows. In other words I can never have the computer in sleep mode or hibernation for that matter.

Since I did not find any information to help in this process I started to look deeper to the problem and I found a temporary solution. I followed Step 8 in the terrific instruction bellow:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/63567-power-options-sleep-mode-problems.html

Doing so I caught that HD Audio Control Panel (RtHDVCpl.exe) was preventing my PC to go into sleep mode.

Now I can go in sleep mode but I lost the ability to control my sound input/output that I kinda liked with Realtek. I tried to uninstall Realtek HD Audio Manager and install the latest version but with no better results.

Reason for this post is one for anyone to use in case disabling Realtek HD Audio Control Panel can do the trick to fix your problem. And second, to request help or comments to fix mine.

Sorry about the lenght of my storry. Great Forum by the way!

**For lack of better words I used the terms that I knew as I'm what they consider a French guy hehe**

Thanks for your input. Will look for a solution.

Is there an advantage/disadvantage to leaving my computer (desktop dell) on all the time.........the only time I turn it off is when I go on vacation. I just find it's convenient to just have it on when I use it.......several times a day. Thanks. Robert

rhouse said:

Is there an advantage/disadvantage to leaving my computer (desktop dell) on all the time.........the only time I turn it off is when I go on vacation. I just find it's convenient to just have it on when I use it.......several times a day. Thanks. Robert

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Actually you should shut down about once a week. Gives the computer a chance to correct any errors or corruption. This is right from the Radio show Host Kim Komando. She conducts a radio, computer call in show.