Vista Standby

[mrk112]

Earlier today I locked my computer and left it running. I think Vista put it in standby but I don't know if it worked properly. Here is what happened, I hope someone can tell me if it's correct or whether a problem occurred..

1. I locked my computer.

2. I got back to my computer, my monitor was in standby and the base unit appeared to be off except that the power light was flashing.

3. I pressed spacebar and the base unit turned on.

4. I waited for quite a while wondering what it was doing when the lights on the keyboard flashed and the computer appeared to be doing a reboot.

5. Monitor turned on as well and I saw the BIOS stuff coming up.

6. Got to my GRUB bootloader and selected 'Windows Vista'.

7. The monitor briefly displayed a message saying something like 'Resuming Windows'.

8. The monitor went blank and then I think it was trying to display something but it looked graphically corrupted, like lots of little vertical lines on the screen.

9. Windows came back up showing the locked screen.

When doing a standby I thought it was supposed to come back up straight into Windows not reboot..

Anyone?

[petroid]

If the computer is in standby for a certain period of time, it will switch to hibernate mode. Check your power options control panel!

[nautiqueskier]

Is this a laptop or desktop? (they have different default standby settings)

[franzon]

2. I got back to my computer, my monitor was in standby and the base unit appeared to be off except that the power light was flashing.

I have the same problem in both Vista and XP after I bought a new Nvidia Geforce graphics card for Aero: power light is flashing when the monitor goes in standby.

I suspect it's a NVidia driver bug.

Do you have a NVidia Geforce graphics card?

Edited January 29, 2007 by franzon

[heavensblade23]

I'm pretty sure that's an Nvidia problem. I have it too.

[Coolur]

I have also been trying to sort the standby/sleep mode in Vista without success.

Prior to installing Vista I could Hibernate the PC no problem.

After installing the Nvidia 100.54 driver for my 8800 GTX card I now have the option to put Vista into standby/sleep mode but all is not well... PC goes into standby and appears to come out of standby except the monitor screen stays blank.

I have an EVGA 680i system board with is set to S3 mode in the bios so by my reckoning all should be well especially as I have not had any probs putting this board to sleep in XP.

Lastly I have google searched the above problem and it seems all is not well with vista and power managment.

Any ideas or thoughts on this problem would be welcome for sure.

Regards

Coolur

[mrk112]

Thanks for the replies..

I have an nvidia card and I'm currently using the drivers provided by Microsoft..

After a bit of playing around disabling 'hybrid sleep' etc and testing it out I think it's all completely broken on my PC..

So is there any way to disable options for putting vista to sleep? I've changed the button on the start menu and I've told Vista to not go into sleep automatically, but can I disable it completely so that it's no longer an option? (So other users cannot put it to sleep by accident)

[ericnmu]

No way to fix it. I have the same problem, and I have every single power option set to full performance, and it still does that garbled text crap.

I'm hoping the next nvidia driver fixes it, or I'll be reformatting again.

[HistoricalNeowin]

You could change it in the bios not to go into S3 sleep? Would enabling "Repost Video on resume" fix your problems?

[matthewf01]

whenever I try to hibernate mine, when i boot the PC back up it starts as though its a fresh cold boot.

No progress or 'loading' bar, no resumed applications. Only 'Welcome Center'.

When I enabled S3 resume in my bios, the Sleep mode began to work properly, but it would never come OUT of sleep.

The PC powered back up fully again (fans, disks) but the monitor never switched on and the PC seemed to have locked (caps lock light doesnt change....).

What gives... should I expect that drivers will clear this up, or is this part of the gimmicky 'Certified for XP [...but we didn't say nothin' 'bout no Vista, man!]?

(hah not really a gimmick, but still. Incompatible with Sleep?]

ASRock 939DualSATA2 motherboard with NV GF6800GT.

[Brandon Live Veteran]

Well, the thing about the boot manager and such coming up is because your computer wasn't asleep, it was hibernating. You can disable hibernation and it won't do that.

The graphical corruption and such is a driver issue. Nvidia's drivers have had some real issues with that stuff - the best one that I've found for quick sleep / resume is the 97.46 driver. All the other ones (including 97.52) on my laptop will cause the driver to crash on resume, which doesn't actually crash Windows - but it makes the resume process hang for a while as Windows restarts the crashed driver. Usually that will be followed by a balloon tip telling me that nvlddmkm (nvidia kernel mode portion of the driver) crashed and was restarted.

The 100.x series drivers caused huge problems for my laptop, which actually seemed to cause it to overheat - so avoid those if you run on a laptop until Nvidia can fix that.

When I enabled S3 resume in my bios, the Sleep mode began to work properly, but it would never come OUT of sleep.

The PC powered back up fully again (fans, disks) but the monitor never switched on and the PC seemed to have locked (caps lock light doesnt change....).

That's probably the nvidia driver crashing as I described above - if you left it, it would probably come back on eventually, but maybe not. Which driver are you using? As I said, the 97.46 has been the most reliable for me regarding that stuff. I run the 100.54 at home though, but I don't let my desktop go to sleep (it just turns off the monitor and hard disks).

[matthewf01]

That's probably the nvidia driver crashing as I described above - if you left it, it would probably come back on eventually, but maybe not. Which driver are you using? As I said, the 97.46 has been the most reliable for me regarding that stuff. I run the 100.54 at home though, but I don't let my desktop go to sleep (it just turns off the monitor and hard disks).

Using the leaked 'edited ini' of 100.54.

I'd be glad to know that my only concern about motherboard incompatibilities (not supporting the sleep suspend properly) is only a drivers maturity issue. Whose though, I dont know.

But I havent installed myself any mfgr-specific drivers, so it must just be using what Windows has, which I feel is good because I'm more likely to get an update (like through windows update?) to fix such problems.

Dont know. Should I be hopeful this will soon work for me?

I cant hibernate!!! I use that ALOT.

[ericnmu]

So has anyone who had the garbled text problem fixed it?

[Ol!ver]

So has anyone who had the garbled text problem fixed it?

Anyone get anywhere with this? I've got an Nvidia card too and I can't get the machine to come out of standby. The option to enable hybrid sleep's gone missing too.

[derekivey]

I'm having this problem too with my NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT. I contacted BFG Tech's support (my card manufacturer), and they weren't much help. They basically said to upgrade my chipset drivers by going to Intel's website and searching for my chipset. That didn't fix it and I told them that and never got anymore replies back from them. Anyone know if there is a fix?

[jimbo11883]

I believe that the problem is with either Vista itself, or with nVidia's drivers... as my PC will attempt to go to sleep, the monitor will go into power saving mode, but the PC itself still keeps running and is stuck that way until I press the reset button on my PC.

For some reason, shutting down all of my apps before manually putting it to sleep fixes the problem... but what good is that?

I have disabled all power management and manually turn of my monitor and speakers when done for the day. I leave the PC running so that it's ready to go whenever I need it.

[HomerJ32]

If you have Vista and an nVidia card. get this!

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

It resolved my Sleep issue with my machine being unresponsive to a 'wake' command from the keyboard! FINALLY and yes, it was Vista in the end that needed to make a change as well. Hounded MS for weeks on this one with log files and dumps until they believed it and fixed it. (Of course there were about 60 of us developers in the office with the same problem, so we were able to deal with them at a fairly low level of debug to prove it!)

PS. Make sure you have the nVidia updates to Vista released 07/07/07. There were nine of them and MS will not say whether or not if any or all were required. We all put them on as nVidia tried to fix the problem, so we have not tested whether the MS fix will work without them. (And we won't be expending further resources on the issue.)

Hope this works for others. Pass it on to other forums that you have accessed regarding this issue to spread the joy to others that may benefit.