Sleep Mode - Doesn't work.

When I press "Sleep" it turns off

2 minutes later, it turns back on

I checked power options and everything..

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Tempest

Hi,

It happens because of interference from some process running in the
background. Open Task Manager and begin selectively disabling them from the
processes tab prior to attempting to sleep until it works. Prime suspects
are antimalware/antivirus applications, as their active scanning often does
not respond correctly to terminate signals.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Tempest" <> wrote in message
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> When I press "Sleep" it turns off.
>
> 2 minutes later, it turns back on.
>
> I checked power options and everything...
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> Tempest

Hello Tempest,

The usual suspects is the network card or BIOS "Wake on..." option
enabled, or the Multimedia settings in Power Options not set to allow
the computer to sleep.

Check through the options in this tutorial for theses items and others
to help see what may be waking up your computer.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/63...-problems.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Tempest;826179 Wrote:
> When I press "Sleep" it turns off.
>
> 2 minutes later, it turns back on.
>
> I checked power options and everything...


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I am another victim of this notorious Vista problem...See article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/927821

Whow knows when MS will fix it????
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Halexi


"Tempest" wrote:

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> When I press "Sleep" it turns off.
>
> 2 minutes later, it turns back on.
>
> I checked power options and everything...
>
>
> --
> Tempest
>

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Halexi


"Rick Rogers" wrote:
> It happens because of interference from some process running in the
> background.

Huh??? Doesn't hibernate powers off computer completely? how can a
background task do this if power is off?
>

It happens because the process doesn't allow the hibernate routine to
complete - in other words the terminate signal is ignored so hte process
never completes.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Halexi" <> wrote in message
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> Halexi
>
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> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>> It happens because of interference from some process running in the
>> background.
>
> Huh??? Doesn't hibernate powers off computer completely? how can a
> background task do this if power is off?
>>

It most likely won't be fixed. The problem is that some older interface
drivers do not support the process properly. Whether or not that driver is
updated is up to the device manufacturer, not Microsoft. Many manufacturers
are lax in updating drivers to be compliant with new operating system
specifications, as there is no real incentive (ie: money) to do so.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Halexi" <> wrote in message
news:76599C7C-27A7-41B3-AE63-...
>I am another victim of this notorious Vista problem...See article:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/927821
>
> Whow knows when MS will fix it????
> --
> Halexi
>
>
> "Tempest" wrote:
>
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>> When I press "Sleep" it turns off.
>>
>> 2 minutes later, it turns back on.
>>
>> I checked power options and everything...
>>
>>
>> --
>> Tempest
>>

"Halexi" <> wrote in message
news:76599C7C-27A7-41B3-AE63-...
> "Tempest" wrote:
>
>>
>> When I press "Sleep" it turns off.
>>
>> 2 minutes later, it turns back on.
>>
>> I checked power options and everything...
>>
>I am another victim of this notorious Vista problem...See article:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/927821
>
> Whow knows when MS will fix it????

From the description of the problem in the article, it doesn't look like
something MS can fix:

> This problem occurs when you use the following two devices:
> - A USB device that supports the wake from sleep functionality of a
> keyboard, mouse, or Media Center infrared (IR) receiver
> - A USB Universal Host Controller Interface (UHCI) host controller
> that does not support the wake from sleep functionality
> This problem occurs when this USB device is connected to the UHCI host
> controller.
> This problem occurs even when the system BIOS reports that the UHCI
> host controller supports the wake from sleep functionality.

....

> When the computer goes to sleep, USB devices turn off. The UHCI host
> controller interprets this event as if the USB devices are unplugged.
> Then, the UHCI host controller wakes up the computer.

So, if the UHCI host controller doesn't support wake from sleep, it's
not MS fault, is it?

Also, they post a workaround (set the USB device to not wake the
computer). Looks like they are doing what they can.

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