Vista - Sleep doesn't work properly at all

I've got Vista x64 on a Toshiba P100 laptop and when it comes out of sleep
some devices don't work.

The Conexant HD audio doesn't play any sounds until after I re-boot,
although Vista seems to think the device is working fine.

The Intel PRO 100 NIC seems to lose it's IP address shortly after returning
from sleep and I can't see anything on the network until after I do a
"IPCONFIG /renew"

I've tried both the MS drivers and the manufacturers drivers for both the
NIC and sound and the same thing happens with both.

Is this sleep problem a general Vista issue, something to do with this
Toshiba laptop, or have I set something up wrong?

The "sleep" function would be very handy, but it's unusable for me at the
moment

Peter Lawton

This is true for many of the posters here. I think Sleep is a candidate for
SP1. There is one solution for the nic. This comes from MS: Open the
properties of the network card, Power Management, select 'Allow windows to
turn off to save power.' This works by allowing Windows to reconnect when
waking. I have not found a disappearing hardware solution yet. On a desktop
it's easy to just never use Sleep, but that's not feasible with a laptop. You
can try not substituting Hibernate for sleep--set all power options to
Sleep-Never, and then use Hibernation instead by settings the lid and power
button to Hibernate instead. This seems to remember all the hardware and
wakes the NIC and reconnects. Worth a try until SP1.

"Peter Lawton" wrote:

> I've got Vista x64 on a Toshiba P100 laptop and when it comes out of sleep
> some devices don't work.
>
> The Conexant HD audio doesn't play any sounds until after I re-boot,
> although Vista seems to think the device is working fine.
>
> The Intel PRO 100 NIC seems to lose it's IP address shortly after returning
> from sleep and I can't see anything on the network until after I do a
> "IPCONFIG /renew"
>
> I've tried both the MS drivers and the manufacturers drivers for both the
> NIC and sound and the same thing happens with both.
>
> Is this sleep problem a general Vista issue, something to do with this
> Toshiba laptop, or have I set something up wrong?
>
> The "sleep" function would be very handy, but it's unusable for me at the
> moment
>
> Peter Lawton
>

Thanks, I'll have to wait for SP1 before I use sleep then I think, pity as
it's so much faster than a cold boot or hibernation

I think I've found a patch for the network problem, but that's not going to
solve the sound missing issue.

For anyone else with the network breaking after sleep there's a patch here,
but as usual in their awkward non-customer friendly fashion you're going to
have to go through the pain of ringing up an MS representative in a
different continent, after the holiday period, write down a 20odd character
reference, get transferred to someone else, read out the damn reference etc
etc - Why can't they just let people download the patches to fix their damn
broken software without all the hassle ...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933872/en-us

Peter Lawton

"Mary" <Mary@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8C448769-BB87-4524-B2A3-5A67FD37F9C1@microsoft.com...
> This is true for many of the posters here. I think Sleep is a candidate
> for
> SP1. There is one solution for the nic. This comes from MS: Open the
> properties of the network card, Power Management, select 'Allow windows to
> turn off to save power.' This works by allowing Windows to reconnect when
> waking. I have not found a disappearing hardware solution yet. On a
> desktop
> it's easy to just never use Sleep, but that's not feasible with a laptop.
> You
> can try not substituting Hibernate for sleep--set all power options to
> Sleep-Never, and then use Hibernation instead by settings the lid and
> power
> button to Hibernate instead. This seems to remember all the hardware and
> wakes the NIC and reconnects. Worth a try until SP1.
>
> "Peter Lawton" wrote:
>
>> I've got Vista x64 on a Toshiba P100 laptop and when it comes out of
>> sleep
>> some devices don't work.
>>
>> The Conexant HD audio doesn't play any sounds until after I re-boot,
>> although Vista seems to think the device is working fine.
>>
>> The Intel PRO 100 NIC seems to lose it's IP address shortly after
>> returning
>> from sleep and I can't see anything on the network until after I do a
>> "IPCONFIG /renew"
>>
>> I've tried both the MS drivers and the manufacturers drivers for both the
>> NIC and sound and the same thing happens with both.
>>
>> Is this sleep problem a general Vista issue, something to do with this
>> Toshiba laptop, or have I set something up wrong?
>>
>> The "sleep" function would be very handy, but it's unusable for me at the
>> moment
>>
>> Peter Lawton
>>