Got Vista

[gallaghb]

I got Vista on Tuesday and all of the components for my new machine.

Everything is running fine, Vista is great except it wont hibernate!

I select hibernate and it powers down completely for about 3 secs before it powers up on its own without me doing a thing. Don't know if this is a known issue or not, and of course MS are offering no support for Vista yet as officially I don't think it as been released yet.

But I knew there would be problems until SP1, just wait 'til then I guess unless anyone knows of a reason why this could be happening?

There is also this new feature in Vista called 'Sleep' where the PC goes into a super-low power state a bit like Standby but less power consumption. I tried using this and as it goes into Sleep mode some of the fans in the PC start spinning as fast as possible, which obviously is gonna use more power let alone annoy the hell outta of you.

[MaxRat]

It may be because your board isnt set right in the power manage ment....should either be S1 or S3...

also if you have any options to "wake on" it will come out of hibernate...It's not a issue with the OS...

I have Vista build 6000 on my NF3 and it hibernates just fine... as long as I dont go over 6 hours...if I go 8 hours it refuses to come out...but it's not the OS it's the board itself not holding the info in the ram...

[Floppyman]

The fans probably spin up to dissipate as much heat as possible before the computer goes to sleep -- that's a good thing.

[gallaghb]

I have all wake on features disabled and the only 2 options I have is S3 or S1 so I stuck it on Auto. Can't find any info on this on Asus website. Board is a P5B btw.

[LittleGhoti]

Let it finish all its indexing chores for a few days, and try hibernate again.

[gallaghb]

I'll keep trying.

Also, I just tried sleep, and it worked, it went real quiet and the power LED was just flashing, but I couldn't resume it from sleep with mouse/keyboard/power button, so I set the keyboard as a wake on feature and then the tried to sleep again, and I get lots of fan noise and no flashing power button, which says to me that it didn't sleep at all just went into weird mode. I disabled the keyboard wake on feature, tried to sleep and it still doesen't work even though settings are the same as when sleep did work. Strange.

[mbiggs]

It had a long day at work and it wanted to sleep in.

[Panama Red]

Originally Posted by mbiggs It had a long day at work and it wanted to sleep in.

mbiggs, this isn't the first time you've been told to stop the nonsense posts. I deleted this orginally but I've now restored it so I can tell you quite publicly that your obvious post padding is going to stop - NOW. Consider this your second warning. You've been walking on thin ice again and we've had enough. Chasing around after you to delete this kind of drivel that contributes nothing to a thread is a nuisance for every moderator here. Knock it off.

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[mbiggs]

Sorry =|