BF2S Forums Sleep Mode - Vista

same happens to moi.

r'Eeee wrote:

Basically, when I select sleep mode in Vista, it just doesn't work. My monitor, keyboard and mouse stop working. But, I can still hear the fans in the case.

That's meant to happen.

r'Eeee wrote:

When I move the mouse or press any key, the PC doesn't respond. I have to hold the power button on the case. And switch it back on.

That isn't.

Could be a setting in your BIOS that's disabled.

Look for things like "Wake on xxx"... (where xxx is 'mouse' or 'keyboard' or 'usb' or somesuch).

What mobo you got?

Scorpion0x17 wrote:

r'Eeee wrote:

Basically, when I select sleep mode in Vista, it just doesn't work. My monitor, keyboard and mouse stop working. But, I can still hear the fans in the case.

That's meant to happen.

r'Eeee wrote:

When I move the mouse or press any key, the PC doesn't respond. I have to hold the power button on the case. And switch it back on.

That isn't.

Could be a setting in your BIOS that's disabled.

Look for things like "Wake on xxx"... (where xxx is 'mouse' or 'keyboard' or 'usb' or somesuch).

What mobo you got?

I forgot to say, that sometimes, it does work. It's like 50/50 chance it will or it won't happen. When it does work, everything goes quite, like if you shut down your PC. And, as I said, when it doesn't work, the fans, the lights on the case, basically everything say on.

And this is my motherboard:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu … l%20P35%20(Socket%20775)%20PCI-Express%20DDR3%20Motherboard

kylef wrote:

Scorpion0x17 wrote:

r'Eeee wrote:

When I move the mouse or press any key, the PC doesn't respond. I have to hold the power button on the case. And switch it back on.

That isn't.

No, I think it is. My computer is the same ... standby perhaps? Keyboard and mouse are sometimes totally disabled but when you press the power button everything is back to normal. (and it isn't a full reboot)

The point of Sleep is that the computer is just sleeping and you hit a key or move the mouse and it comes back up.

Are you talking about Hibernation, kyle?

if your fans spin down or not depends on your motherboard and PSU and isn't controlled by the OS

(@kyle: actually, you may be kinda right - I was forgetting there's S1 and S3 power saving...)

@r'Eeee:

Okey dokey...

1. Boot into BIOS.
2. Go into the Power Management Setup section.
3. Set ACPI Suspend Type to either S1(POS) or S3(STR) - S1 is when the fans are on whilst is sleeps, S3 will stop the fans.
4. Set Power On By Mouse to Double Click if you want that feature.
5. Set Power On By Keyboard to either Password (and set your required password with next option down from that) or Keyboard 98 to use the Windows 98 keyboard 'power' button (other similarly named buttons on others keyboards (e.g. 'sleep') may also work (or may not)).
6. Hit F10 to save those settings and reboot.
7. (hopefully) Profit...

Now, if you don't 'profit', then your PSU is probably not supplying the correct current on the correct voltage-lines whilst it's in sleep-mode.


(all this is on pages 46 and 47 of your mobo manual, btw)

Last edited by Scorpion0x17 (2008-07-24 07:14:08)

r'Eeee wrote:

Hmm thanks for the help. But, I can't eve access the BIOS. My keyboard and mouse don't power up, until I get to the Vista loading screen.

Are they USB or PS2? Could be that...

Or could be the 'your PSU isn't providing the correct current on the correct voltage-lines' thing...

They are both USB.

The keyboard is connected to a PCI USB card. The mouse is connected to one of the motherboard USB slots.

That's the one



Brb, I will connect it to my motherboard then...

Ok, I was able to get into the BISO, when I connected the keyboard to my motherboard USB slot.

I changed those options stated above. Now, I need to wait, and see if that help. Because, as I said. Sometimes, it works fine.

Have you tried just pressing the power button once? That's what I do and it works fine.