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Standby/hibernate problem
Standby/hibernate causes my computer - most of the time, but not always - to restart at the boot screen with an error message warning of an unexpected shut down.
This problem only occurred after I upgraded Vista to the RC, not while I was using the W7 beta daily from a separate partition.
I have unsuccessfully been trying to isolate the cause or conditions for this error. All drivers, incl NVIDIA video drivers, are up to date. I have disabled hybrid sleep, the windows media server preventing sleep, the automatic hibernation and standby settings and anything else I could tweak. I am back to the most basic configuration I could set up. I have also tried enabling and disabling the Sony hibernation service (whatever that does in Win 7)
To reproduce this error:
Fresh start, no applications loaded. Wait 10 mins for all services to start up.
Standby: Screen blanks, disk activity for 20 secs, sleep mode. Wake up is instant.
Wait 10 mins and standby again: Screen blanks again, disk activity continues without coming to an end. No reaction to keybaord, mouse or display being lowered. Hard reset is necessary. (Sometimes, after a lengthy inerval the computer powers off at some time, and reports error on boot)
Sony Vaio notebook VGN-FZ280E.
Any advice on troubleshooting this issue would be appreciated.