Vista won't return from sleep


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I recently reformatted my hard drive and installed Vista on the main partition and Windows 7 on another smaller partition. Ever since, whenever I'm in Vista (which is 99% of the time) and it goes to sleep and I try to wake it up, it seems to wake up and there is CPU activity but the screen remains blank and it seems to freeze after I try hitting some keys and then I have to do a hard shutdown. Not sure if it has anything to do with 7 because I installed both on the same day. I am up to date on my windows updates. Also, I'm running on an HP dv6000t laptop and have never encountered this problem before (I have reformatted many times).

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If you have an NVIDIA card, I've had the same problem. The 18x Series GeForce Driver Releases seem to give some set-ups this problem.

It can usually be fixed by installed the 179.28 notebook drivers Link

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something i really need to know.

what is the difference between the 185.20 version and the 181.22 version of th nvidia drivers. the 181.22 was released after the 185.20 one. i dont get whats the difference i never know which one to download

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  • 3 weeks later...

I do use sleep, and it's most likely not the drivers since they worked perfectly fine before I had to reformat. I've heard of fixes Microsoft released, but I'm not clear on the details..

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