My Laptop messes up when resuming from sleep or hibernation

I'm having an issue with my Lenovo X230i Laptop. It seems when I first turn the thing on, it works just fine and dandy. I'm sorta on the go a lot, so I like to set my Laptop to sleep or hibernation mode so I can quickly restart it back up on the fly. However, for some reason whenever I resume from either mode, things often seem to fail on my Laptop, almost at random. For example...


- The little graphic that pops up whenever I increase or decrease the volume (or the brightness of the screen, etc.) will no longer show up upon resuming from sleep/hibernation. This one always happens.

- My USB Bluetooth dongle works great, but will fail to stay connected to anything upon resuming from sleep/hibernation (it will detect a bluetooth device and connect to them, but only for a few seconds). This one always seems to happen, too (which is becoming really inconvenient for some of the work I do on my Laptop).

- Built-in Webcam works great until, well... (This one seems to happen randomly)

- My Laptop's built-in touscreen, digital pen, and auto-screen rotation will also fail (also seems to happen randomly).

- Wifi takes nearly a minute or two to connect to my router after resuming from sleep/hibernation (it can find things nearby just fine, but won't do anything until a certain amount of time has passed). This does this every time, too, though Ethernet works just fine regardless.

- Some USB devices will simply fail to register when resuming, like my USB Keyboard or USB Headphones. Strangely, they'll receive power just fine, but my computer will do nothing with them.

- A capture device of mine will work great when I first start the computer up, but will completely fail upon resuming from sleep/hibernaton.


I don't know if this is a hardware or software issue, to tell you the truth. I'm almost positive it didn't do these things when I first got this laptop. I've actually been experiencing these problems for about half a year now, and I didn't mind it so much as first but now it seems to be getting worse (at times, anyway). I guess I could solve these issues by just simply shutting down my computer every time I use it, but I'm just curious if there really is a solution to any of these issues?

Could something I had installed be causing this? Could Windows just be goofing up? I had to install it myself when I got this Laptop, so could a format + fresh installation of Windows 7 help? Is there a less-drastic solution than that, hopefully? Any help will be appreciated.


Let me know if there's any extra bits of info I can provide that might help.

Apologies for the delayed response. I did run some tests on my computer as-per your advice, but nothing seemed to show up.

However, I think I might have solved the problem though... hopefully, anyway. I'm thinking it was "Lenovo Power Management" that was causing the issues... I have no idea why or how, but when I removed it, things seemed to start working as intended. The Wifi now connects instantly whenever I resume from Sleep/Hibernation, and even the bluetooth functions correctly and connects to my devices (regardless if I tried using it before or after sleep/hibernation). Sadly, removing Power Management did get rid of the on-screen indicator that let's you know when you've increased/decreased the volume or screen brightness, but if it means fixing all my other issues, then I can live with it.

(Webcam turned out to be a whole different issue, however... but thankfully, I was able to get that resolved, too.)

In any case, thanks for the help, ICIT2LOL.

I had a similar issue with another program. Here is what you have to do.

1) Go into the start menu, search for task scheduler, and open it.

2) In the upper left click on task scheduler library.

3) Right click on each task and select properties, then click the settings tab in the new window.

4) Uncheck "Stop the task if it runs longer than 3 days" and click OK.

Problem solved.