Getting Vista 32 to sleep, don't use the mouse!

[johnpombrio]

Do not use your mouse to get Vista to go to sleep. It won't sleep and the machine hangs. MS know about this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930091
here how to get Vista to sleep:
IN the BIOS enable ACPI and S3 only.
IN the Vista power options in the control panel:
choose balanced plan and change plan settings
Turn off display 20 min
Put the computer to sleep 45 minutes
Under advanced power settings:
require password on waking? your choice
sleep-sleep after -45 minutes
allow hybrid sleep -No (takes forever to go to sleep)
hibernate after-never
power buttons and lid
power button action-sleep

Apply. Ok

Now the machine will sleep after 45 minutes and if you want to put the computer to sleep, just push the power button! Using the mouse and the start menu-sleep will hang the computer.

If your computer wakes up all the time when it is not supposed to, turn off wake the machine on LAN, Mouse, and Keyboard in the device manager.

 

[bsobel]

Im not sure if this was corrected in SP1 or not (Stash?) but this only affected certain types of usb mice AFAIK so its not a universal issue (my V64 rig doesnt exhibit the behaviour with a MS mouse for example)

 

[badnewcastle]

I have not had any problems putting my system to sleep with Vista x64.

 

[johnpombrio]

Didn't have a problem when I was using my G5 Logitech mouse but do now with my G9 mouse. Milege may vary with what equipment you are using! Good rule of thumb tho is to use the power button to sleep the machine..

 

[nerp]

I like to have my machine hibernate fully after a few hours. I feel, why not just power off completley? I'm tempted to buy one of those "smart strip" devices which kills power to three accessory devices when it senses your main PC power is cut. Perfect place to plug in my klipsch 2.1s which have an annoying power switch on the sub that's hard to reach and my LaserJet 1018.

I've got my BIOS set to wake up on hotkey "any key" so if Sophie needs to print and my box is off, she just walks over, taps space, the machine leaps out of hibernation and the printer begins churning out the document. Sometimes she streams videos that are in shared folders on the machine and if the machine is sleeping or hibernated and she'll tap space to get her stuff going.

 

[YankeesWin]

I've been having a problem getting my machine to wake up using my usb mouse, and I'm actually downloading sp1 now so hopefully this fixes the problem. If anyone else had this problem and was able to fix it let me know.

 

[johnpombrio]

Originally posted by: YankeesWin
I've been having a problem getting my machine to wake up using my usb mouse, and I'm actually downloading sp1 now so hopefully this fixes the problem. If anyone else had this problem and was able to fix it let me know.

to get the USB mouse to wake the machine up, you need to go into the device manager, select your mouse, right click to get to properties, and under the power management tab, click on the box to say use this device to wake up the computer.