Using Windows Vista to fry eggs
This morning I had to run an errand and after that I was going to drop by the coffee house and have some caffeine. I threw the Lenovo IdeaPad U110 into my bag and headed out the door. The U110 was in Sleep mode when I threw it in the bag which is important so remember that. I ran the errand and less than an hour later I hit the coffee shop like I do many times a week. I got my beverage of choice and sat down at the community work table with 3 other people. One of the other shop regulars was there and asked if I had the "new Lenovo" with me to show the others. It was their lucky day since it was sitting quietly in my bag.
I knew when I opened the zipper compartment that something was wrong as it was HOT! I pulled the U110 out of the bag and it was hot enough to fry an egg on the lid, something that is just not good. I opened the lid to let it cool off and it was already on and waiting for me to log in. Not good at all. Once I got logged in and the desktop appeared I get the Vista dialog box that tells me the computer had unexpectedly restarted. That’s why it had turned itself on in my bag, while sitting there asleep Vista crashed and restarted and it sat there waiting for me to log in for a very long time. The metal casing was incredibly hot because the computer was on with the lid closed and it was in a thermal sack called my gadget bag. The battery was at 50% so it ate through it in a hurry as it was on with no power management. How can Vista crash while a PC is asleep? And if it crashes while closed why does it restart automatically, and unsafely in this case? Come on, the OS should protect the equipment, not the other way around.
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I’ve had this ridiculous occurrence on my X61T – put it in my bag asleep, and pull it out later on to find it warm and awake! The only safe solution seems to be hibernate…
I had this happen twice on my HP this week. Both times taking it out of the bag on the plane and discovering that it has been on for sometime.
Not sure why this has started happening recently.
Btw, 1st time it was asleep, 2nd time it was in hibernate.
Twice I’ve found my OQO 02 (running Vista Business) being on when I know I had put it to sleep mode. I heard of other OQO-Vista users noticing the same thing. I thought it was an OQO-specific problem, but now it sounds like a Vista issue.
That is weird, I’ve never experienced this except sometimes when waking my notebook up, that’s when the ATI driver BSODs Vista and I have to wait forever for Vista to do a reboot.
Ive had this with my x40 running XP when I dont sit down and watch to make sure that the computer completely goes to sleep before I close the lid.. If I don’t wait, half the time it fails and wakes back up in my bag.
My testing laptop at work has done that several times. It wouldn’t properly sleep because of some missing driver, but it would try, except it would sometimes pop out of sleep and turn on. Or, it would wake up to do something and then ‘crash’ with a black screen and a blinking cursor and get very, very hot.
I try to use hibernate as much as possible, since when your device is hibernated, it’s *OFF*.
My dv6000 has done it before. Usually at 4am and I get woken up by its fan running crazy loud. I swear sometimes my laptop could spark a fire… it was that hot… but at 4am, the only thing I think of is sleep, so I set it to hibernate and curse at it in my sleep. Thankfully Word and Firefox can recover the stuff I was working on previously (for school)..
Could be an automatic intall of precedently downloaded uptdates? if you set vista to automatically download updates and set a time to perform the update maybe vista could exit from sleep to perform that operation.
Or if set to do so , after a time in sleep mode vista could enter automatically in ibernate mode my samsung Q1 U do this…if the ibernation fail maybe the pc could restart…no other ideas ^^
I have had the issue with my UX390N. To counter it, I set the side switch to put the device into hibernate.
I have had the issue also with my P1610, though much less often.
Both devices run Vista Business.
I used to have that same problem on my Q1 but I can’t remember what OS I was running when it was doing that, but it happened quite often. So much so, that I stopped sleeping it and started hibernating when I put it in the bag for more than a short period of time.