Vista - Power Options and Sleep Mode Problems

Hey Brink,

When I first assembled this computer, it wouldn't go to sleep, but changing one of the USB jumper settings on the motherboard fixed that. Now the problem is when it wakes from sleep. Basically if I wake the computer with the keyboard, the mouse doesn't wake up unless i unplug it and plug it back in. Same thing happens if I wake the computer with the mouse, I have to unplug and replug the keyboard. Not a big problem, just an annoying one. Any help would be much appreciated.

Hello Rossner, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Double check to see if the Legacy USB setting in the BIOS is set as enabled. Also, you might check to see if you have the latest driver version installed for the mouse from the manufacturer's link below. If you do, then you might uninstall and reinstall them in case they had gotten corrupted.

Cyber Snipa™ :: Downloads :: Drivers & Manuals

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Just read most of the forum (at work ahem) but will try the steps when i get home - my problem starts the same as everyone else but when i go to shut my pc down to reboot it actually goes directly back into sleep mode with out even booting. Hmmm... The only way i have got it to turn back on was to pull the lith batt out of the MB. Does this make any sense? I didnt have these problems till my pc auto installed the sp1 pack.

Hello Narcopletic PC,

If the tutorial cannot help, then the SP1 may have messed up during install corrupting your Vista installation and you may need to reinstall Vista. If you do reinstall, install the SP1 before doing any other Windows Update using the stand-alone installer instead.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

ty for the info - one thing i found is that my pc clock was not linked to the server clock - this was in part to the auto daylight savings time - i was not getting any of my updates - i unclicked the auto DLST and relinked to the windows server clock and updated a few drivers i seemed to be missing - i wonder if this was due to the fact that we changed the day we set our clocks back now? - not sure but it did help - almost wiped HD and started over - glad i waited - this site is very helpful - thanks to all who post - i use my pc for gaming so just tuned up power performance and shut off all the sleep modes and just turn it off when im done - who needs brakes when all ur trying to do is go fast lol

You're welcome Narcopletic PC. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted.

I never heard of that affecting sleep mode before, but since it worked, it must have been part of the problem. Thank you for posting back your results.

Shawn

Hi,

I am pretty much in trouble.... though your tutorial is by far the most complete on the web, it did not help... my computer won't go to sleep and though I try to setup hibernate, it immediately dissapears from the options. Even more weird is the output of powercfg:

>powercfg lastwake
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 0

and powercfg -devicequery wake_armed is completely empty...

i would appreciate any help!

thanks a lot

-- dimitris

Hello Dimitris, and welcome to Vista Forums.

That just means that no device has waken up the computer.

Have you already checked to make sure Hibernation is enabled still?

If you try Sleep instead of Hibernate, how does it work then?

Shawn

Hi Shawn

thanks for the reply. Yes, I have tried that, but no luck.... it is completely strange, just as if a transparent device to the system wakes it up. I tried to see what can do in safe mode and when I tried to enable hibernation from there, it said that there is a legacy device VgaSave that prevents hibernation, and I couldn't set any powersave properties to this device (at least from the command prompt). However, in normal mode, I do not get this message, but I do not get hibernation or sleep either... sigh...

... and this is what I get in the event log:

The system has resumed from sleep.

Sleep Time: 8/11/2008 5:25:57 μμ
Wake Time: 8/11/2008 5:27:12 μμ

Wake Source: Unknown

Dimitris,

What results do you get with Step 5?