Windows 7 freezes when left alone

Hello,

I am running windows 7 (7100x64) off a relatively new HP laptop and whenever I leave my computer alone for a while it goes to sleep and freezes. I then turned off sleep function on the hp settings and if I leave the thing alone for a while it still freezes without going into sleep mode. However the problem does not occur when i close the laptop and then open it up later - then it kicks back into life like normal.

I made the switch with a clean install from vista and I didn't have these problems on that system. Does anyone know if this is a common problem with an easy-ish solution? i am no computer expert and would appreciate some advice on what I should do - should I re-install windows and is it possible to do that without losing my settings / files?

also attached is now my system info so you can see exactly what i am running and maybe help make a more accurate suggestion

details of the problem are that the computer totally freezes, it is black cause the screen turned off - this goes back to showing the desktop but then everything freezes, no mouse no nothing ( ctrl alt delete either)

Sorry to interject....
Just adding my bit, im interested where this thread goes, as i have exactly the same issue, except i have a AMD/Nvidia based desktop system....
Feel free to ask for more info, or tell me to go make a new thread..Thanks :)

Maybe this will help.

Goto Start -> enter power plan -> select from the menu-> choose a powerplan

Select High Performance

Goto Start-> enter choose , and select choose when to turn off display

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Hope this works for you!

zx81

yes I was already doing that power plan thing as I had thought the problem was with the sleep function - it does help but it doesn't exactly solve the problem. if I wanted to live with an operating system that doesn't do what i wanted I would have stuck with Vista

Try this setting out and see if anything changes.

i seem to have cured it by updating the Nvidia Geforce drivers to the lastest beta version...
I was tempted to do so by the promise of 'Over 200 bugfixes'

So far so good...i am under the impression it had troubles when bringing the monitor out of standby..

Have you made any progress with this? I have essentially the same issue.

I have done all the things recomended:

installed latest nvidia driver
turned off sleep for hard disk (is this risky by the way?)
Turned off sleep when open

and the results:

It does not freeze permanently now, it will look like a normal freeze and then i leave it alone for like a minute and the whole thing comes back to life - earlier this would be done and I would lose sound but now sound comes back to...it ain't great but nor is it as bad as before