Vista not waking up after defragmentation overnight

[Guest Rob]

Have a dual-boot setup (XP 32 bit and Vista 64bit) running for near a year.

 

One major problem has arised twice so otherwise I will from now on try to

avoid sleeping mode (or hybernation ??...).

 

In Vista, there is no way apparently I can wake up the system from sleep

mode : mouse, keys (at least I haven't found which or which esoteric

combination...)

 

Last time I had this problem, I had to physically shut the PC, att he risk

of doing something bad to my boot sector (if I remember, the next launching

had been problematic...)

 

Is there a setting I can do : either to have a **simple** way to awake it

(such as moving the mouse, as it is the case on the same machine under XP),

or at worst, setting so it will never go back to sleep, period ?

 

Thanks,

Rob

[Guest John Barnes]

Re: Vista not waking up after defragmentation overnight

 

Control Panel/System and Maintenance/Power Options and set never to sleep.

As to waking up, that would most likely be a driver problem. Check you have

the latest ACPI driver.

 

 

"Rob" <landrobert@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:114A599F-598B-4951-BFBF-C3F72C54C68F@microsoft.com...

> Have a dual-boot setup (XP 32 bit and Vista 64bit) running for near a

> year.

>

> One major problem has arised twice so otherwise I will from now on try to

> avoid sleeping mode (or hybernation ??...).

>

> In Vista, there is no way apparently I can wake up the system from sleep

> mode : mouse, keys (at least I haven't found which or which esoteric

> combination...)

>

> Last time I had this problem, I had to physically shut the PC, att he risk

> of doing something bad to my boot sector (if I remember, the next

> launching

> had been problematic...)

>

> Is there a setting I can do : either to have a **simple** way to awake it

> (such as moving the mouse, as it is the case on the same machine under

> XP),

> or at worst, setting so it will never go back to sleep, period ?

>

> Thanks,

> Rob