Sleep Problem

[Mjcanton]

Every time I try and sleep my laptop, the screen goes black like it normally would, and then comes back in the log in screen a few seconds later. It worked fine before the update, so I'm guessing it had something to do with that?

I might just uninstall the updates... It's not the first time I have had an update do more harm than good.

UPDATE:

I found that it has something to do with when the mouse is plugged into the USB port. I used to have a bluetooth mouse and that was fine but i got rid of it because i was tired of changing batteries. Other things in the USB port do not wake up my computer.

Any ideas?

 

[Etihtsarom]

Yeah. The updates probably had some changes to the network card or USB drivers. Check to make sure the network cards can't wake the computer by doing "devicemanager">network card properties> powermanagement>untick the whatchamacallit thingy thing.

 

[Mjcanton]

yeah i know it's not that i made sure it is unclicked. It is because of the mouse. It's lame that the update would mess with that... it's quite annoying actually. is anyone else having similar issues

 

[Etihtsarom]

How about disabling USB devices from waking the system as well. And also do that in the power configs.

 

[Mjcanton]

how do you do that?

 

[Brink]

Hello Mjcanton,

The STEP SIX and STEP FIVE sections in the turorial below can show you how to for that device.

Power Options and Sleep Mode Problems - Vista Forums

Hope this helps,
Shawn