Sleep much slower than XP, wakes up if USB device unplugged

Hi there, I recently got vista installed and I am not gonna lie... I
like it a lot, the new user interface is great and all, but it has a
tonne of problems, which I am trying to fix one by one... An annoyance
I have is with Sleep or Hibernate function. There were quite a few
posts about people having problems with using this function, but none
fitted mine. When I put it to sleep in XP it takes 2-5 seconds. If I
do it on Vista, it takes anywhere up to 2 minutes. I know it is taking
up considerably more RAM, etc... but 2 minutes is an outrage. Also,
when it wakes up it may take as much again.

That's not the worst of it though. If I have any USB device (e.g.
mouse, ext. hard drive) and I unplug it while Vista is sleeping, it
wakes up. This never happened in XP and is a real drag. I am using an
IBM R60 notebook. 1 Gb RAM, Centrino Duo T2500, ATI X1400 on-board.

Does anyone have any hints as to what may be the problem and if
there's a fix for it?

Thanks in advance.

The default Sleep mode in Vista is different than in XP. You'll sometimes
see it refferenced as "Hybrid Sleep". The biggest difference is that it
writes out the contents of RAM to a file before going to sleep just like
Hibernate does. The time required to do this accounts for some portion of
what you are seeing. This sleep mode allows it to convert to a full
hibernation when the battery gets low, avoiding those "Resume Failure" type
messages when you run out of battery power after you have put your laptop
into Sleep mode.

With 1GB RAM, my 3yr old Celeron takes probably 30 seconds to enter Hybrid
sleep. I suspect the rest of the time you are seeing is from either services
that are slow to shut down, or drivers that don't cleanly unload. Try
finding newer ones for your laptop itself and any other attached
peripherals, especially networking related.

"DigitalBlade" <> wrote in message
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> Hi there, I recently got vista installed and I am not gonna lie... I
> like it a lot, the new user interface is great and all, but it has a
> tonne of problems, which I am trying to fix one by one... An annoyance
> I have is with Sleep or Hibernate function. There were quite a few
> posts about people having problems with using this function, but none
> fitted mine. When I put it to sleep in XP it takes 2-5 seconds. If I
> do it on Vista, it takes anywhere up to 2 minutes. I know it is taking
> up considerably more RAM, etc... but 2 minutes is an outrage. Also,
> when it wakes up it may take as much again.

I ran the diagnostics tool and indeed there seems to be some issue
with my intel wireless driver, even though it's designed for Vista.

What about the other issue? (Waking up if USB unplugged)
I understand there's an option somewhere where you define what events
trigger a wake-up. Is anyone familiar with that?

Thanks for your reply LaRoux.