my newish xp laptop is fine when it comes to this, but i (and others i've talked to) have an issue with vista; when it "wakes" up, it's more like it's hitting snooze a few times. it flickers and freezes up usually three times before it finally settles the hell down. just an fyi for anyone that thinks it's just their computer (i.e. how i thought my display drivers were crapping out.)

OrangeAlert

Tip: use the usbbiosx registry tweak

nbarsley

This article is much better:
[www.exoid.com]

I think the most important tweak is the usbbiosx registry tweak.

nbarsley

Tip: never ever think you're being clever by taking the battery out when your laptop refuses to wake up from hibernation, even if it doesn't respond to the power button. It'll work alright, but it'll also break your laptop.

I learnt the hard way: I now have a battery life of roughly 3 minutes.

Loco

@Masaya: I think the laptop is silver, so it probably is an MBP. The table underneath looks a reflecting black.

On another note, I spoke to a person whose brother writes power code for Apple. According to her, it is quite boring and very difficult; no one joins the company wanting to work on it. I imagine the same is true at MS. MS has the extra complication that their code runs on many hardware platforms...probably one reason why Apple does not license OSX to other manufacturers.

nettoyeur

I know this isn't a trouble shooting blog but...

I have a HP laptop and whenever I try to change my power properties or my my sleep notifications they always change back without my doing anything.

Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this?

Ev

@orinos, urbanride:

there are no black macbook pros. but the macbook has the indent thing to open (magnetically). this is rather curious. maybe its a macbook pro in a dark room? or a painted one...

Masaya

@urbanride: Bootcamp?

Papa Midnight

Except for a short stint with a HP laptop a couple of years ago, I've used Dell laptops my entire modern computing life, and every single one of them has had issues with Windows hibernate/standby and docking/undocking. Even when I follow the book by the letter, it's a 50-50 proposition to get my laptop out of the dock without requiring a total reboot.

I'm going to try these tips to see if they help.

savvy999

Hope this helps someone--I didn't see it listed as one of the solutions on that article.

Starting sometime this summer, Vista on my laptop suddenly stopped successfully entering Sleep mode for me. I'd hit sleep, screen would dim, and then it would return me to just the locked computer screen. It wasn't until I was fiddling around with power options the other day that I discovered Vista has an option under Power Options-->Change Plan Settings-->Multimedia Settings where you can prevent the computer from going to sleep if it is sharing media. Changed the option to "Allow the computer to sleep" and it's worked perfectly since.

(Turned out setting up the media sharing to my xbox 360 was to blame for that default setting... great for a desktop i suppose, but terrible when i want to take my laptop to class!)

Shmoo

As a Linux user I'm always surprised that Windows users have such problems with power management. I say that not because Linux power management support is perfect (it isn't) but because I would think these things would work better in Windows than they do in Linux. Certainly it seems to me that some Linux users assume that when power management is broke in Linux, it is Linux's fault.

That said, my 2-year-old Dell Latitude laptop didn't have any problems suspending in Windows, and it works fine in Linux too.

massysett

@orinos73: macbook pro running xp?

urbanride

Ummm...isn't that a photo of a MacBook Pro?

orinos73

On two laptops that I have, I've found by turning of networking (with the switch on the side of the laptops) PRIOR to putting it into Standby, makes all the difference. I just wake it back up again and turn networking back on. It is MUCH faster than a cold start.

Spuddude

Not related to XP, my MacBookPro was waking up in my backback unexpectedly. Turns out the case has flexed a bit in the two years I've had the thing and the sensor (A magnet) that tells if the case is closed was pulled back just enough that the machine would spontaneously wake up if pressure was applied in the correct area.

The following command makes it so the machine won't wake up when the lid is opened. You have to hit the spacebar to bring the computer out of sleep:

sudo pmset lidwake 0

Hooray for hidden preferences!

ScottTFrazer

SCOTTTFRAZER - That's amazing. I just -- like an hour ago -- spent a couple hours on the phone with AppleCare, describing that exact problem, and they were completely stumped. Thanks!

crookedgrin