AcePilot88 Posted December 29, 2007 Posted December 29, 2007 For about 8 months, my Vista has slept whenever I've told it to. I have a laptop, and the screen turns off while the power button slowly fades in and out. In the past few days, it has started just turning the screen off while keeping the power light on, and all I have to do to wake it up is move the mouse. Before I had to press the power button to wake it up. Any ideas? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makaveli Posted December 29, 2007 Posted December 29, 2007 Mine does the exact same thing. I think it's normal. For me, sometimes I have to push to power button and sometimes I just have to move the mouse. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcePilot88 Posted December 29, 2007 Posted December 29, 2007 For 8 months mine did it the way I like though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makaveli Posted December 29, 2007 Posted December 29, 2007 That's weird how that happened...I mean, nothing negative is occurring from this, right? Like, this is just something that you've noticed? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowfactor Posted December 29, 2007 Posted December 29, 2007 sounds like something got changed under the power options. The state that it was currently under for the last u8 months was called Hibernation and the state that it's currently in is called Stand-by... Hibernation uses a lot less power than stand-by Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
road-runner Posted December 29, 2007 Posted December 29, 2007 Probably a windows vista update.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcePilot88 Posted December 29, 2007 Posted December 29, 2007 (edited) I thought stand-by and hibernation from xp were combined to get sleep for vista edit: I just tried it again, and it works now... It seems to randomly change. Edited December 29, 2007 by AcePilot88 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makaveli Posted December 29, 2007 Posted December 29, 2007 It seems to randomly change. +1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cchalogamer Posted December 29, 2007 Posted December 29, 2007 From my experience Vista by default does standby then moves to sleep mode after a period of time...though you could easily change the settings under power options to force it to do exactly as you wish. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcePilot88 Posted December 29, 2007 Posted December 29, 2007 Well, I did some experimenting, and when it's plugged in, it does the thing where all I have to do is move the mouse. When it's unplugged, it does the kind of sleep I want it to. Does anyone know a setting that does this? I've looked throughout power options, and I can't find it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cchalogamer Posted December 30, 2007 Posted December 30, 2007 It should have multiple power profiles that offer a large listing of options and things related to power and how it shoudl react plugged in vs on battery. Don't have my Acer in here with me atm so i cant just look at it and see exactly where the settings are, but it's under the control panel and I think the actually battery/power tray icon somewhere. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcePilot88 Posted January 1, 2008 Posted January 1, 2008 Yeah, I found that, and I have it set to Sleep whenever I press the power button, whether it's plugged in or not. But it still doesn't work right. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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