System freezes when resuming from sleep or hibernation. There is no

BSOD and no entries in the logs. The easier case is hibernation, where

a Vista screen shows up saying "Resuming", but nothing happens. There

is no logon screen or desktop shown. When resetting the system and

again attempting to resume from the saved state it works. Only the

first attempt of resume fails.

 

For sleep the situation is more complicated: it properly resumes from

sleep, but ca. 2 seconds after the desktop appears everything freezes.

Upon reset the system won't boot completely (screen remains black when

logon screen should appear) resetting it a second time then proceeeds

with normal startup.

 

Given that I just built a completely new system because my old

graphics card failed to resume from sleep under Vista, I am wondering

hibernation is completely broken and I will have to wait for SP1. Any

suggestions ?

 

Vista Business 32-bit

Asus P5N-E SLI (650i nforce) board

Core2 E6420

2GB RAM

GeForce 8800GTS

This is a known problem on some systems and affects Sleep and Hibernation.

Check the MS Knowledge Base for a possible Hotfix. You also should check

with System/Motherboard maker for info or a Bios update.

 

<grubertm@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> System freezes when resuming from sleep or hibernation. There is no

> BSOD and no entries in the logs. The easier case is hibernation, where

> a Vista screen shows up saying "Resuming", but nothing happens. There

> is no logon screen or desktop shown. When resetting the system and

> again attempting to resume from the saved state it works. Only the

> first attempt of resume fails.

>

> For sleep the situation is more complicated: it properly resumes from

> sleep, but ca. 2 seconds after the desktop appears everything freezes.

> Upon reset the system won't boot completely (screen remains black when

> logon screen should appear) resetting it a second time then proceeeds

> with normal startup.

>

> Given that I just built a completely new system because my old

> graphics card failed to resume from sleep under Vista, I am wondering

> hibernation is completely broken and I will have to wait for SP1. Any

> suggestions ?

>

> Vista Business 32-bit

> Asus P5N-E SLI (650i nforce) board

> Core2 E6420

> 2GB RAM

> GeForce 8800GTS

>

<grubertm@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:1183799327.920161.212000@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

> System freezes when resuming from sleep or hibernation. There is no

> BSOD and no entries in the logs. The easier case is hibernation, where

> a Vista screen shows up saying "Resuming", but nothing happens. There

> is no logon screen or desktop shown. When resetting the system and

> again attempting to resume from the saved state it works. Only the

> first attempt of resume fails.

>

> For sleep the situation is more complicated: it properly resumes from

> sleep, but ca. 2 seconds after the desktop appears everything freezes.

> Upon reset the system won't boot completely (screen remains black when

> logon screen should appear) resetting it a second time then proceeeds

> with normal startup.

>

> Given that I just built a completely new system because my old

> graphics card failed to resume from sleep under Vista, I am wondering

> hibernation is completely broken and I will have to wait for SP1. Any

> suggestions ?

>

> Vista Business 32-bit

> Asus P5N-E SLI (650i nforce) board

> Core2 E6420

> 2GB RAM

> GeForce 8800GTS

>

I had problems with Vista sleep functions on my desktop HP Pavilion. I had

tried all sorts of combinations of sleep/power settings with no luck. Sleep

had been working until about three weeks after I bought the machine. I

narrowed the problem to actions I had taken on a specific date, where I had

tried to install an old scanner which did not install properly. I

uninstalled everything, but there was an artifact from a driver left over in

the msconfig Startup Items list the incompletely removed driver was

interfering with my sleep functions. Although there was no apparent direct

connection between the artifact and sleep, sleep began working after I

removed the artifact from msconfig. So, perhaps a place for you to start is

to ask whether sleep has *ever* worked on your computer? You can learn

about your sleep history in Event Viewer/Windows Logs/System. Within this

display, you can search for events with the Find command, and look for

events that have the words Power or Sleep. This may help you pin down when

or if your system has had events associated with sleep. I am sorry that

this description is a little vague, but that is all I can tell you based on

my experience. Hope it helps!