Re: Problem with sleep mode on laptop

I've had this problem on laptops and desktops. The only way I've found to
get out of it is to hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, which brings up the, hmmm... don't
quite know what to call it... the full screen window that allows you to
change users, lock computer, etc. Then I hit the red up arrow in the lower
right hand side of the screen and select Restart. Since the system is pretty
much hosed, it will either take a while to restart, i.e., a minute or two,
or it will fail and then I've gotta hit the power button on the PC.

Lang

"Jo" <jander41@wideopenwest.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone else have this problem with RC1 on a laptop? When I close the
> laptop, which puts it into sleep mode, I cannot recover when I raise the
> laptop lid. Nothing will bring it out of sleep and the screen stays
> black. I have to reboot by pushing the power button. (Toshiba A75-226, 1
> GB Ram, 3.1 GHZ Pent4 with Hypethreading. ATI Mobile Radeon 9000 IGP
> onboard video). I reported this as a bug in PreRC1. Do I need to report
> again?
>
> Thanks.

"Jo" <jander41@wideopenwest.com> wrote in message
news:6210A894-6F2F-4F53-9FBA-9338CE55DEC2@microsoft.com...

> Does anyone else have this problem with RC1 on a laptop? When I close the laptop, which puts
> it into sleep mode, I cannot recover when I raise the laptop lid. Nothing will bring it out
> of sleep and the screen stays black. I have to reboot by pushing the power button. (Toshiba
> A75-226, 1 GB Ram, 3.1 GHZ Pent4 with Hypethreading. ATI Mobile Radeon 9000 IGP onboard
> video). I reported this as a bug in PreRC1. Do I need to report again?
>
> Thanks.

Microsoft took a feature (sleep) that worked very well
on my laptop in WinXP and have totally hosed it. This funky
"hybrid" sleep/hibernation crap, well, it's crap.


-Michael

The screen you think of is called "Windows NT Security Screen", at least it
was called so in XP and 2000


"Lang Murphy" <lang_murphy@hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> I've had this problem on laptops and desktops. The only way I've found to
> get out of it is to hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, which brings up the, hmmm...
> don't quite know what to call it... the full screen window that allows you
> to change users, lock computer, etc. Then I hit the red up arrow in the
> lower right hand side of the screen and select Restart. Since the system
> is pretty much hosed, it will either take a while to restart, i.e., a
> minute or two, or it will fail and then I've gotta hit the power button on
> the PC.
>
> Lang
>
> "Jo" <jander41@wideopenwest.com> wrote in message
> news:6210A894-6F2F-4F53-9FBA-9338CE55DEC2@microsoft.com...

>> Does anyone else have this problem with RC1 on a laptop? When I close
>> the laptop, which puts it into sleep mode, I cannot recover when I raise
>> the laptop lid. Nothing will bring it out of sleep and the screen stays
>> black. I have to reboot by pushing the power button. (Toshiba A75-226, 1
>> GB Ram, 3.1 GHZ Pent4 with Hypethreading. ATI Mobile Radeon 9000 IGP
>> onboard video). I reported this as a bug in PreRC1. Do I need to report
>> again?
>>
>> Thanks.

>

"Jo" <jander41@wideopenwest.com> wrote in message
news:6210A894-6F2F-4F53-9FBA-9338CE55DEC2@microsoft.com...

> Does anyone else have this problem with RC1 on a laptop? When I close the
> laptop, which puts it into sleep mode, I cannot recover when I raise the
> laptop lid. Nothing will bring it out of sleep and the screen stays
> black. I have to reboot by pushing the power button. (Toshiba A75-226, 1
> GB Ram, 3.1 GHZ Pent4 with Hypethreading. ATI Mobile Radeon 9000 IGP
> onboard video). I reported this as a bug in PreRC1. Do I need to report
> again?

I recommend you turn sleep mode off.
Control panel -> system maintenance -> on the power options section choose
"change what the power buttons do", then in the bit for closing the lid
change it from sleep, to do nothing.