Question about Vista Sleep Mode

Today I put the computer into the sleep mode, and it would not come out of
the sleep mode. I rebooted a couple of times, and hit the reset on my
monitor, and then it finally did boot up in normal mode. Did I do something
wrong? I thought it would simply come out of the sleep mode when hitting the
mouse or enter like a screensaver. How the heck do you get it out of the
sleep mode? I wonder if it's a computer problem, or if it's me. :-)

--
Cheri

"Rich." <> wrote in message
news:. ..
> It's not you, it's the way the computer is setup. When a computer goes
> into sleep mode it shuts down the power to the USB ports. Now if both your
> mouse and keyboard are USB ones, they both will lose power. This of course
> renders them useless at bringing your computer out of sleep mode.
>
> There are two ways around this problem. The first requires a jumper on the
> motherboard to be moved. This jumper controls whether the (+5V) USB power
> is turned off or left on during sleep mode. By default most MBs have this
> jumper set to turn off the +5v power. The second method is to use a USB to
> PS/2 adapter on either the mouse or the keyboard so that it can be plugged
> into the computer's PS/2 port. The device will work the same, except that
> the PS/2 port does not lose power during sleep mode. Because of this,
> whichever device you plug into it will be able to bring the computer out
> of sleep mode.

Thank you for this information, but in my case...I was doing it wrong. It
does not respond to mouse movement, or the enter key, but you just have to
press the button on the front of the puter to bring it out of the sleep
mode.

Cheri

Can you or anybody tell me how to reach a place to set the jumper
controls. When my computer goes into sleep mode, I have no mouse nor
keyboard.

Thanks,
Don

Rich. wrote:
> It's not you, it's the way the computer is setup. When a computer goes
> into sleep mode it shuts down the power to the USB ports. Now if both
> your mouse and keyboard are USB ones, they both will lose power. This of
> course renders them useless at bringing your computer out of sleep mode.
>
> There are two ways around this problem. The first requires a jumper on
> the motherboard to be moved. This jumper controls whether the (+5V) USB
> power is turned off or left on during sleep mode. By default most MBs
> have this jumper set to turn off the +5v power. The second method is to
> use a USB to PS/2 adapter on either the mouse or the keyboard so that it
> can be plugged into the computer's PS/2 port. The device will work the
> same, except that the PS/2 port does not lose power during sleep mode.
> Because of this, whichever device you plug into it will be able to bring
> the computer out of sleep mode.
>
>
> "Cheri" <gserviceatinreachdotcom> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Today I put the computer into the sleep mode, and it would not come
>> out of the sleep mode. I rebooted a couple of times, and hit the reset
>> on my monitor, and then it finally did boot up in normal mode. Did I
>> do something wrong? I thought it would simply come out of the sleep
>> mode when hitting the mouse or enter like a screensaver. How the heck
>> do you get it out of the sleep mode? I wonder if it's a computer
>> problem, or if it's me. :-)
>>
>> --
>> Cheri
>

Can the jumper controls be set in the system BIOS?


Rich. wrote:
> It's not you, it's the way the computer is setup. When a computer goes
> into sleep mode it shuts down the power to the USB ports. Now if both
> your mouse and keyboard are USB ones, they both will lose power. This of
> course renders them useless at bringing your computer out of sleep mode.
>
> There are two ways around this problem. The first requires a jumper on
> the motherboard to be moved. This jumper controls whether the (+5V) USB
> power is turned off or left on during sleep mode. By default most MBs
> have this jumper set to turn off the +5v power. The second method is to
> use a USB to PS/2 adapter on either the mouse or the keyboard so that it
> can be plugged into the computer's PS/2 port. The device will work the
> same, except that the PS/2 port does not lose power during sleep mode.
> Because of this, whichever device you plug into it will be able to bring
> the computer out of sleep mode.
>
>
> "Cheri" <gserviceatinreachdotcom> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Today I put the computer into the sleep mode, and it would not come
>> out of the sleep mode. I rebooted a couple of times, and hit the reset
>> on my monitor, and then it finally did boot up in normal mode. Did I
>> do something wrong? I thought it would simply come out of the sleep
>> mode when hitting the mouse or enter like a screensaver. How the heck
>> do you get it out of the sleep mode? I wonder if it's a computer
>> problem, or if it's me. :-)
>>
>> --
>> Cheri
>

Never mind. My mouse and keyboard are not connected via USB port.

Don wrote:
> Can the jumper controls be set in the system BIOS?
>
>
> Rich. wrote:
>> It's not you, it's the way the computer is setup. When a computer goes
>> into sleep mode it shuts down the power to the USB ports. Now if both
>> your mouse and keyboard are USB ones, they both will lose power. This
>> of course renders them useless at bringing your computer out of sleep
>> mode.
>>
>> There are two ways around this problem. The first requires a jumper on
>> the motherboard to be moved. This jumper controls whether the (+5V)
>> USB power is turned off or left on during sleep mode. By default most
>> MBs have this jumper set to turn off the +5v power. The second method
>> is to use a USB to PS/2 adapter on either the mouse or the keyboard so
>> that it can be plugged into the computer's PS/2 port. The device will
>> work the same, except that the PS/2 port does not lose power during
>> sleep mode. Because of this, whichever device you plug into it will be
>> able to bring the computer out of sleep mode.
>>
>>
>> "Cheri" <gserviceatinreachdotcom> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Today I put the computer into the sleep mode, and it would not come
>>> out of the sleep mode. I rebooted a couple of times, and hit the
>>> reset on my monitor, and then it finally did boot up in normal mode.
>>> Did I do something wrong? I thought it would simply come out of the
>>> sleep mode when hitting the mouse or enter like a screensaver. How
>>> the heck do you get it out of the sleep mode? I wonder if it's a
>>> computer problem, or if it's me. :-)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheri
>>