Waking up my PC

When my PC (Vista home premium up to date) goes to sleep, I can wake it
up by:

1) Hitting the space bar or moving the mouse
2) If this doesn't work, pushing the power button lightly wakes it up

BUT

3) sometimes none of these things work, and I have to completely shut it
down and restart it.

The time it was asleep is roughly the same (overnight) in each case.

Any idea?


Daniel

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Daniel Royer
University of Geneva

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I had Vista sleep problems, but it is now resolved. What helped me
investigate the problem was realizing that, at one time, my system sleep
functioned normally, and then stopped working. I was able to pin down the
time period when it stopped working by reviewing the Event Viewer/Windows
Logs/System. Times when the system goes to sleep are signalled by an entry
that looks like: "Information 7/10/2007 10:29:24 AM Kernel-Power"; times
when the system resumes from sleep show this entry: "Information 7/10/2007
1:19:35 PM Power-Troubleshooter".
My logs go back to when I bought the computer in May, so I could verify when
the problem started. Perhaps an initial question for you is: has your
computer always had this problem or did it work ok at one time? Take a look
through your Event Viewer and see if it has ever worked, then see if you can
pin down when it may have changed.

In my case, I had inadvertently tried to install a piece of non-Vista-ready
software, which left artifacts that caused my sleep problems. After I
cleared that up, sleep became functional again. Hope this helps.

"Daniel Royer" <> wrote in message
news:...
> When my PC (Vista home premium up to date) goes to sleep, I can wake it up
> by:
>
> 1) Hitting the space bar or moving the mouse
> 2) If this doesn't work, pushing the power button lightly wakes it up
>
> BUT
>
> 3) sometimes none of these things work, and I have to completely shut it
> down and restart it.
>
> The time it was asleep is roughly the same (overnight) in each case.
>
> Any idea?
>
>
> Daniel
>
> --
> ________________________________
>
> Daniel Royer
> University of Geneva
>
> ________________________________

Many people have problems with vista resuming from sleep and/or hibernation.
Hopefully this is one of the things fixed in SP1.
there are a couple hotfixes available, http://itsvista.com/hotfixes/ but
none of them resolved my issues with waking (I'm having the exact same
issues you described).


"Daniel Royer" <> wrote in message
news:...
> When my PC (Vista home premium up to date) goes to sleep, I can wake it up
> by:
>
> 1) Hitting the space bar or moving the mouse
> 2) If this doesn't work, pushing the power button lightly wakes it up
>
> BUT
>
> 3) sometimes none of these things work, and I have to completely shut it
> down and restart it.
>
> The time it was asleep is roughly the same (overnight) in each case.
>
> Any idea?
>
>
> Daniel
>
> --
> ________________________________
>
> Daniel Royer
> University of Geneva
>
> ________________________________

* John Hanley wrote, On 27/09/2007 17:49:
> I had Vista sleep problems, but it is now resolved. What helped me
> investigate the problem was realizing that, at one time, my system sleep
> functioned normally, and then stopped working. I was able to pin down the
> time period when it stopped working by reviewing the Event Viewer/Windows
> Logs/System. Times when the system goes to sleep are signalled by an entry
> that looks like: "Information 7/10/2007 10:29:24 AM Kernel-Power"; times
> when the system resumes from sleep show this entry: "Information 7/10/2007
> 1:19:35 PM Power-Troubleshooter".
> My logs go back to when I bought the computer in May, so I could verify
> when
> the problem started. Perhaps an initial question for you is: has your
> computer always had this problem or did it work ok at one time? Take a
> look
> through your Event Viewer and see if it has ever worked, then see if you
> can
> pin down when it may have changed.
>
> In my case, I had inadvertently tried to install a piece of non-Vista-ready
> software, which left artifacts that caused my sleep problems. After I
> cleared that up, sleep became functional again. Hope this helps.
>
> "Daniel Royer" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> When my PC (Vista home premium up to date) goes to sleep, I can wake
>> it up
>> by:
>>
>> 1) Hitting the space bar or moving the mouse
>> 2) If this doesn't work, pushing the power button lightly wakes it up
>>
>> BUT
>>
>> 3) sometimes none of these things work, and I have to completely shut it
>> down and restart it.
>>
>> The time it was asleep is roughly the same (overnight) in each case.
>>
>> Any idea?
>>
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> --
>> ________________________________
>>
>> Daniel Royer
>> University of Geneva
>>
>> ________________________________
>
Thanks. I'll see if I can spot anything suspicious.

Daniel

* KDE wrote, On 27/09/2007 18:18:
> Many people have problems with vista resuming from sleep and/or hibernation.
> Hopefully this is one of the things fixed in SP1.
> there are a couple hotfixes available, http://itsvista.com/hotfixes/ but
> none of them resolved my issues with waking (I'm having the exact same
> issues you described).
>
>
> "Daniel Royer" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> When my PC (Vista home premium up to date) goes to sleep, I can wake it up
>> by:
>>
>> 1) Hitting the space bar or moving the mouse
>> 2) If this doesn't work, pushing the power button lightly wakes it up
>>
>> BUT
>>
>> 3) sometimes none of these things work, and I have to completely shut it
>> down and restart it.
>>
>> The time it was asleep is roughly the same (overnight) in each case.
>>
>> Any idea?
>>
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> --
>> ________________________________
>>
>> Daniel Royer
>> University of Geneva
>>
>> ________________________________
>
>
Guess we'll have to wait for SP1!!

Daniel

I heard ms released most of the updates that will be packaged in sp1, and
possibly all the critical ones.
"Daniel Royer" <> wrote in message
news:%...
>* KDE wrote, On 27/09/2007 18:18:
>> Many people have problems with vista resuming from sleep and/or
>> hibernation. Hopefully this is one of the things fixed in SP1.
>> there are a couple hotfixes available, http://itsvista.com/hotfixes/ but
>> none of them resolved my issues with waking (I'm having the exact same
>> issues you described).
>>
>>
>> "Daniel Royer" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> When my PC (Vista home premium up to date) goes to sleep, I can wake it
>>> up by:
>>>
>>> 1) Hitting the space bar or moving the mouse
>>> 2) If this doesn't work, pushing the power button lightly wakes it up
>>>
>>> BUT
>>>
>>> 3) sometimes none of these things work, and I have to completely shut it
>>> down and restart it.
>>>
>>> The time it was asleep is roughly the same (overnight) in each case.
>>>
>>> Any idea?
>>>
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>> --
>>> ________________________________
>>>
>>> Daniel Royer
>>> University of Geneva
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>
>>
> Guess we'll have to wait for SP1!!
>
> Daniel