Vista - Goes into sleep mode even though I have "Put computer to sleep"=ne

I know there have been a lot of posts about people having problems comming
out of sleep mode. But I having a problem with mine going into sleep
mode(and of course comming back out). In power settings I have "put computer
to sleep" = never, but if I leave it sit over night it apears to go into
sleep mode and I can't recover it. I end up having to shutdown and reboot.

It MAY be a leap to assume it's going into sleep mode, or any other mode,
but what I'm seeing is that the fans are on, power light is one, but I move
the mouse, hit spacebar or anythign on the keyboard and nothing happens.

Maybe I'm way off base on my assumptions, but can anybod provide some
troublshooting ideas?

This is a clean install on a new system
64 X2 4600
2gb ram
6600gt 256 video
EIDE hard drive

Sleep mode in Vista is a combination of XP's Standby and Hibernate. The
fact that the fans and the power light are on suggests you are not in sleep
mode.

A wild guess would be a video driver issue, or some other video
card/controller related issue, in that, the default setting for Vista is to
turn the screen off after a certain amount of time and your computer is
having trouble turning the screen back on.

As a test, go into the power settings and change the default to "Never" and
then see what happens.

Like I said, a wild, unsubstantiated, uninformed guess.

"loopist" <loopist@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I know there have been a lot of posts about people having problems comming
> out of sleep mode. But I having a problem with mine going into sleep
> mode(and of course comming back out). In power settings I have "put
> computer
> to sleep" = never, but if I leave it sit over night it apears to go into
> sleep mode and I can't recover it. I end up having to shutdown and
> reboot.
>
> It MAY be a leap to assume it's going into sleep mode, or any other mode,
> but what I'm seeing is that the fans are on, power light is one, but I
> move
> the mouse, hit spacebar or anythign on the keyboard and nothing happens.
>
> Maybe I'm way off base on my assumptions, but can anybod provide some
> troublshooting ideas?
>
> This is a clean install on a new system
> 64 X2 4600
> 2gb ram
> 6600gt 256 video
> EIDE hard drive

Mark D. VandenBeg wrote:
>> Maybe I'm way off base on my assumptions, but can anybod provide some
>> troublshooting ideas?
>>
>> This is a clean install on a new system
>> 64 X2 4600
>> 2gb ram
>> 6600gt 256 video
>> EIDE hard drive
>
>

Mark's suggestion was pretty good but I see he didn't answer your last
question. I'd start with a large pot of coffee....:-)

What about the part that starts with "As a test...?"

"Bernie" <bernie@nospam.org> wrote in message
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>
>
> Mark's suggestion was pretty good but I see he didn't answer your last
> question. I'd start with a large pot of coffee....:-)

Mark D. VandenBeg wrote:
> What about the part that starts with "As a test...?"
>
>

Doesn't cut it. He wants to know what happens to his machine overnight.
So I'd suggest a large pot of coffee and a couple of matchsticks.

LOL

"Bernie" <bernie@nospam.org> wrote in message
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> Mark D. VandenBeg wrote:
>> What about the part that starts with "As a test...?"
>>
>
> Doesn't cut it. He wants to know what happens to his machine overnight. So
> I'd suggest a large pot of coffee and a couple of matchsticks.

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:17:01 -0700, loopist
<loopist@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I know there have been a lot of posts about people having problems comming
>out of sleep mode. But I having a problem with mine going into sleep
>mode(and of course comming back out). In power settings I have "put computer
>to sleep" = never, but if I leave it sit over night it apears to go into
>sleep mode and I can't recover it. I end up having to shutdown and reboot.
>
>It MAY be a leap to assume it's going into sleep mode, or any other mode,
>but what I'm seeing is that the fans are on, power light is one, but I move
>the mouse, hit spacebar or anythign on the keyboard and nothing happens.

Looks like the computer is crashing. In sleep mode the power goes off,
and the power light blinks.

>
>Maybe I'm way off base on my assumptions, but can anybod provide some
>troublshooting ideas?

Can you put the computer in sleep mode? And then come out of sleep
mode?

>
>This is a clean install on a new system
>64 X2 4600
>2gb ram
>6600gt 256 video
>EIDE hard drive

That indication is normal behavior. Pressing the front power button briefly
should wake it up just like a laptop coming out of hibernation.

"andy" <bogusaddress@bogusaddress.123> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:17:01 -0700, loopist
> <loopist@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>I know there have been a lot of posts about people having problems comming
>>out of sleep mode. But I having a problem with mine going into sleep
>>mode(and of course comming back out). In power settings I have "put
>>computer
>>to sleep" = never, but if I leave it sit over night it apears to go into
>>sleep mode and I can't recover it. I end up having to shutdown and
>>reboot.
>>
>>It MAY be a leap to assume it's going into sleep mode, or any other mode,
>>but what I'm seeing is that the fans are on, power light is one, but I
>>move
>>the mouse, hit spacebar or anythign on the keyboard and nothing happens.
>
> Looks like the computer is crashing. In sleep mode the power goes off,
> and the power light blinks.
>
>>
>>Maybe I'm way off base on my assumptions, but can anybod provide some
>>troublshooting ideas?
>
> Can you put the computer in sleep mode? And then come out of sleep
> mode?
>
>>
>>This is a clean install on a new system
>>64 X2 4600
>>2gb ram
>>6600gt 256 video
>>EIDE hard drive
>

Lots of folks don't realize this, but you have a LOT of options when it
comes to power saving on most systems.

There are also BIOS settings that may or may not turn on power saving ...

Make sure to tell windows to NOT turn off the video, hard drive, etc and
that will solve many problems.

Make sure that you don't have some type of hotkey or what-have-you set to
put the system into hibernate.

TURN OFF HIBERNATE SUPPORT, which is different than the "never" on the
"power schemes" tab. Go to the HIBERNATE tab and UNcheck "Enable Hibernate"
to turn it off.


"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
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> That indication is normal behavior. Pressing the front power button
> briefly should wake it up just like a laptop coming out of hibernation.
>
> "andy" <bogusaddress@bogusaddress.123> wrote in message
> news:tmm1e2t6erdkapei23t945jjmoe6443fea@4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:17:01 -0700, loopist
>> <loopist@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I know there have been a lot of posts about people having problems
>>>comming
>>>out of sleep mode. But I having a problem with mine going into sleep
>>>mode(and of course comming back out). In power settings I have "put
>>>computer
>>>to sleep" = never, but if I leave it sit over night it apears to go into
>>>sleep mode and I can't recover it. I end up having to shutdown and
>>>reboot.
>>>
>>>It MAY be a leap to assume it's going into sleep mode, or any other mode,
>>>but what I'm seeing is that the fans are on, power light is one, but I
>>>move
>>>the mouse, hit spacebar or anythign on the keyboard and nothing happens.
>>
>> Looks like the computer is crashing. In sleep mode the power goes off,
>> and the power light blinks.
>>
>>>
>>>Maybe I'm way off base on my assumptions, but can anybod provide some
>>>troublshooting ideas?
>>
>> Can you put the computer in sleep mode? And then come out of sleep
>> mode?
>>
>>>
>>>This is a clean install on a new system
>>>64 X2 4600
>>>2gb ram
>>>6600gt 256 video
>>>EIDE hard drive
>>
>
>

Lots of good ideas.

I don't know why I didn't try and manually put it into sleep or hibernate
mode. So I tried that first. Actually, it went in and back out of sleep
mode and hibernate without any problems. So then what? I figured it must be
a hardware problem with the video card. I was able to get a working driver
from Nvidea and that didn't work either. It would still go into this blank
state.

I did notice one other thing accidentally. I was at the point where I was
like the heck with Vista for now and put in my XP disk, and noticed that,
even though I couldn't see anything on the screen(monitor was on, but no
output comming from video card), auto run kicked. So my computer wasn't
asleap or in hibernate, I just wasn't getting any output to the monitor.
Weird...

I guess I could try using the onboard video from my motherboard and see what
happens, although that isn't much of a solution....I loaded up XP to see if I
had this same problem(which I didn't). So I know it's not a flat out
hardware issue, but proably either be Vista or a driver problem.

"Raven Mill" wrote:

> Lots of folks don't realize this, but you have a LOT of options when it
> comes to power saving on most systems.
>
> There are also BIOS settings that may or may not turn on power saving ...
>
> Make sure to tell windows to NOT turn off the video, hard drive, etc and
> that will solve many problems.
>
> Make sure that you don't have some type of hotkey or what-have-you set to
> put the system into hibernate.
>
> TURN OFF HIBERNATE SUPPORT, which is different than the "never" on the
> "power schemes" tab. Go to the HIBERNATE tab and UNcheck "Enable Hibernate"
> to turn it off.
>
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:%23UYuw2$vGHA.1284@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> > That indication is normal behavior. Pressing the front power button
> > briefly should wake it up just like a laptop coming out of hibernation.
> >
> > "andy" <bogusaddress@bogusaddress.123> wrote in message
> > news:tmm1e2t6erdkapei23t945jjmoe6443fea@4ax.com...
> >> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:17:01 -0700, loopist
> >> <loopist@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>I know there have been a lot of posts about people having problems
> >>>comming
> >>>out of sleep mode. But I having a problem with mine going into sleep
> >>>mode(and of course comming back out). In power settings I have "put
> >>>computer
> >>>to sleep" = never, but if I leave it sit over night it apears to go into
> >>>sleep mode and I can't recover it. I end up having to shutdown and
> >>>reboot.
> >>>
> >>>It MAY be a leap to assume it's going into sleep mode, or any other mode,
> >>>but what I'm seeing is that the fans are on, power light is one, but I
> >>>move
> >>>the mouse, hit spacebar or anythign on the keyboard and nothing happens.
> >>
> >> Looks like the computer is crashing. In sleep mode the power goes off,
> >> and the power light blinks.
> >>
> >>>
> >>>Maybe I'm way off base on my assumptions, but can anybod provide some
> >>>troublshooting ideas?
> >>
> >> Can you put the computer in sleep mode? And then come out of sleep
> >> mode?
> >>
> >>>
> >>>This is a clean install on a new system
> >>>64 X2 4600
> >>>2gb ram
> >>>6600gt 256 video
> >>>EIDE hard drive
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>