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Laptop extremely slow to wake up from sleep mode, 5+ minutes to wake
Hi,
I am new here. Hoping someone can help me out with this issue. I work in IT so am not a complete computer bonehead and am at my wits end with this.
My laptop is about 4 years old, it's a toshiba. For whatever reason, it started taking 5+ minutes to wake up from sleeping. If it sleeps for an hour, it's OK.. but if you leave it sleep all night and try to wake it up in the morning, it's quite cranky. After the 5+ minute wake up, it performs as normal. It was running Windows 7 Home 32 bit.
Troubleshooting steps that I have taken are as follows.
Reinstalled windows. Issue was resolved! but after about 2-3 weeks, issue came back. I thought maybe it was some type of windows update, so I reinstalled windows again and paid closer attention to the updates. Issue presented itself again after 2-3 weeks, and there were no updates immediately done prior to it starting.
I started to think maybe it was something related to my hard drive, so i performed laptop surgery and swapped out my original hard drive with a solid slate drive, and installed windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit (this laptop can support 64 bit so I figured why not upgrade.).
issue again was resolved for a few weeks, and now it's back to taking 5+ minutes to wake up again.
If you're turning the laptop on from scratch, it takes 10-15 seconds tops. if you're restarting, it's 10-15 seconds tops (man, I love SSD...)... if you're waking itup within the hour, its 1-2 seconds. But anything longer then that, 5+ minutes.
It barely has any software installed.. all I use this laptop for is the internet and office type stuff.
I've checked event viewer to see if it's having driver issues or this or that and haven't been able to pinpoint this.
One of my coworkers suggested defragging the registry, but that hasn't sped it up either.
Any thoughts? My current work around is just to always power down the laptop.