Vista - Power Options and Sleep Mode Problems

Yes, resetting the BIOS settings will undo the overclocking.

Doing everything else will not though.

Brinks,

Thanks for the warning. I'm not ready to experiment with the clock speed at this time so I guess I'll have to leave the sleep mode alone untill perhaps Microsoft finds a solution to my delema. I've been meaning to learn how to overclock, but I just never got around to actually doing it.

Maybe hibernation mode is an option that I should consider. I can still restore this feature, given that it is no longer available on my system, right? Anyway, thanks man...I really appreciated your help.

Starduski,

Sure you can enable and give hibernation a try to see how it may work you if you like. If it doesn't, you can just disable it again.

I have a problem. When I try to put my computer to sleep, the computer power button will turn orange and when the monitor goes to sleep the computer will turn back on. I done the Power Management stuff in the Control Panel but nothing happens. I don't like shutting my computer all the way down because it takes too long to reboot. And the computer manual says that it is recommended to leave it to sleep and not Shut Down.

Please help me.

Hello Farrah, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Be sure to check each item in this tutorial to see if it may be able to help.

Hey!

I`m posting here because of a Sleep issue I`m having with my computer.

The problem is that when I tell the computer to enter Sleep Mode, it does not enter sleep mode. The monitor powers off, however the computer remains in exactly the same state.

The issue cannot be resolved with step 2 of the tutorial because I do not wish for my computer to automatically sleep after a certain amount of time; I only want it to enter sleep mode when I press the sleep button. This means that changing the settings so that the hard drive is set to turn off a minute earlier than the computer enters sleep mode essentially changes nothing because I need those settings set at `never`.

Hello Paul, and welcome to Vista Forums.

That would be fine to have STEP TWO set that way.

What is you BIOS settings set as in STEP THREE?

Have you checked all the other steps to see if one of them may be preventing your computer from going to sleep?

Hello, do you have SP2 installed? Also, do you have Avira Antivir installed? If you do, disabling Avira Antivir before you put your computer to sleep might solve the issue. Il did for me anyway. Don't forget to re-enable it after wake-up though.

This is exactly the same situation for me that has been a problem now for over a year with no resolution. I'm upgrading to Windows 7 soon and hope that will resolve this problem.

this tutorial solved my Dell laptop's sleep problem, but another problem recently occured, and I want to see if anyone have the same experience.

I just bought a HP multifunction USB printer M1319f, and the problem is when I press the power button to let the laptop sleep, the screen will go off...but the computer will never go into sleep...unless I unplug the USB cable. The hard drive stays busy after I press the sleep button, but as soon as I unplug the USB cable, the laptop goes into sleep mode.

help~