My Vista re-install worked too. TEMPORARILY. Maybe one of the updates messed
it up. I wouldn't know which one to check for.
"George" wrote:
> I ran the MS System File Check utility (SFC.exe). It found corrupted
> system files which it couldn't repair. Unfortunately there wasn't and
> old enought Restore Point for System Restore to fix the problem. I
> had to use the HP System Recovery feature to reinstall Vista. This
> fixed the problem.
>
> If I had a Vista Home Basic SP1 disk, I would have tried a repair
> reinstall.
>
> George
>
> On Jun 8, 4:08 pm, Vicki_g <Vic...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > I have the same exact problem. The computer powers down for sleep, but when
> > it's time to wake up, the hard drive comes back, but not the monitor. I
> > restored Vista and that worked for a while, but then the problem reoccurred.
> > It will sometimes power down in the middle of whatever I'm doing and go to
> > sleep. I've asked on here four times but have not gotten a response yet.
> > Hopefully, someone will come up with some options for us.
> >
> >
> >
> > "George" wrote:
> > > I help a small non-profit private school by providing them with free
> > > PC support. One of their computers no longer will resume from sleep
> > > (S3). It used to work fine.
> >
> > > When the sleep command is given, the computer appears to enter a sleep
> > > state. The power light changes from green to yellow and the fans
> > > stop. When the power button is pressed to wake the computer, it
> > > appears to try to wake up. The power light turns green and the fans
> > > start up. However, monitor doesn’t respond and remains in standby.
> >
> > > Killing the power to force a resume from hibernation doesn’t work
> > > either. The windows resume screens appears and then goes blank.
> > > After a while the computer reboots.
> >
> > > A check of the System Event Log show that the computer last
> > > successfully resumed from sleep on 4/30. The first resume failure was
> > > on 5/5. Between those dates no changes were made except for some
> > > Windows Updates to the Office 2007 help files (Access (KB963663),
> > > Excel (KB963678), Powerpoint (KB963669) and Word (KB963665).
> >
> > > The computer is a Compaq Presario SR5110NX with Vista Home Basic, an
> > > AMD Athlon 64 3800+ CPU, an Nvidia integrate graphics chipset and 2GB
> > > RAM.
> >
> > > Does anyone have any suggestions about what may have caused this
> > > problem and how to trouble shoot it?
> >
> > > Something I noticed in the System Event Log back when sleep and resume
> > > worked was the following pairs of events:
> >
> > > Information Kernel-Power ID: 42 The system is entering sleep.
> > > Information Power-Troubleshooter ID: 1 The system has resumed from
> > > sleep.
> >
> > > These events don’t appear in the log after the problem stated to
> > > occur. Instead the following events appear:
> >
> > > Error EventLog ID:6008 The previous system shutdown at (time & date)
> > > was unexpected.
> >
> > > The fact that I no longer get a Kernel-Power 42 (The system is
> > > entering sleep) log event suggests that the computer is not entering
> > > the S3 state correctly. I’m assuming that Vista writes the ‘Kernel-
> > > Power 42’ event when it transitions to the S3 state. Is this
> > > correct? If my assumption is correct it follows that this is a
> > > ‘Sleep’ problem and not a ‘Resume’ problem. Does his make sense?- Hide quoted text -
> >
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