I have an ati card and vista home premium with all updates but i get bsod after resuming sleep mode and doing *something* (that maybe either opening a application or signing in to messenger)

How much longer must we put up with this problem?
It’s been an ongoing issue since Vista was released (foisted) on the public. Having just installed an out of the box new HP desktop, it fails miserably to recover after a power saving shut-down from the screen saver mode. IT BSOD’s !!!

I know there may be a fix from the many posted, but WHY? after all this time, is it still happening?

Shame on both M$ & HP for allowing this to continue for almost 2 years.

Why should users who don’t have a clue, have to deal with this problem. Please, don’t tell me I need to check/install the latest drivers, BIOS or M$ patches. I’ve already done that (it shouldn’t have been necessary with the latest HP! from a large retail chain) & it still BSOD’s!

VISTA is another Windowz ME! compared to XP.

..Keith
A weary PC tech!

Well, I would consider myself a guru of sorts when it comes to building and understanding how to fix usually every problem I have run into with pc’s I have had. This has always been on an xp machine, which I still do not have any problems with. Purchased an acer the other day, has xp, sleep/hibernate mode/vista, all suck. I will try the bios s3 to s1 trick, but imo vista has nothing to offer that xp didnt already do in a better way.
My problem: sleep/hibernate whatever it is, will not work when I try to resume. Will usually make it back to the login screen, but the cursor and everything else just freezes, with no hd/cpu activity or anything, and am forced to shut down via power button (which is really really stupid). Looking for hotfix…found nothing.

It dounds to me like you have a BIOS setting which is putting your machine to sleep. I have seen similar issues on a variety of systems, and if it still sleeps after disabling hibernation and standby, it is most likely that the BIOS is taking over and forcing the issue. There may be some compatibility issue which keeps Vista from reacting properly, so you may need to disable sleep in the BIOS, as well.

Contrary to suggestions that most “Professionals” or serious computer users do not shutdown, I don;t think that can be generalized. Each person has a personal preference based on software requirements, laziness, or a host of other quirks which guide thair choice of power usage.

Personally, I try to balance my power bill with what is going on. I typically shut down when not in use, and only run for long periods when doing system maintenenace (updates, defrag, etc) or when batch processing large video or audio files which needs to run uninterrupted. But that’s just me.

One concern I have which keeps me rebooting periodically is to make sure it WILL reboot. This is true of PCs at home, as well as production servers I am responsible for which might run for weeks at a time, and then not come up when restarted, because someone changed something without proper documentation.

But I digress — Check your BIOS settigs for sleep functions…

I was told by my friendly HP dealer that this problem is very common and that I would just have to live with it until MS comes out with a fix, but that in the meantime I could log in as the administrator and turn off hibernation. I did that but the problem persists with no noticeable change whatever.

Any suggestions. I can’t sit by the computer and type something every few minutes to keep it from going into hibernation and I can’t afford to be without my computer overnight every time it does hibernate.

I was told by my friendly HP dealer that this problem is very common and that I would just have to live with it until MS comes out with a fix, but that in the meantime I could log in as the administrator and turn off hibernation. I did that but the problem persists with no noticeable change whatever.

Any suggestions. I can’t sit by the computer and type something every few minutes to keep it from going into hibernation and I can’t afford to be without my computer overnight every time it does hibernate.

If I try to hibernate manually, again, my laptoop lookslike it’s going to hibernate, then it reboots instead.

I do have the hiberfil.sys file; I’ve tried powercfg -h off & -on again, no luck.

The only thing I can think of doing is deleting that file, then trying to recreate it.

All in all, quite odd!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949537/en-us

“When you try to put a Windows Vista-based computer into hibernation (S4), and the computer has multiple USB devices connected to it, the computer stops responding”

unclear from the text, but it seems this happens when you try to use a Bluetooth device. I experienced this problem yesterday.

The other hotfixes helped a tiny bit, but then I encountered another problem in which I’m apparently SOL.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305689/en-us
“Laptop Computer Reaches 100 Percent CPU Usage After You Remove It from the Docking Station”
it happens to me in sleep mode too, not just hibernate.