Vista sleep problems- is this a fix?
I have railed about the sleep problems that I have started having on my Vista-based HP 2710p and also detailed what steps I have been taking to try to eliminate them. You recall that my HP ran for months absolutely fine and then developed these sleep problems all at once recently. I am still having trouble with various sleep functions including the HP crashing and rebooting while attempting to sleep. The latest episode happened last night while the HP was sitting peacefully in the dock for a while and when it tried to sleep at the appropriate time it failed to do so and crashed with a reboot. The good news is that when the device rebooted Vista did it’s "looking for a solution" thing and actually found a cause for the crashes:
Yes, that’s right, Vista determined that the cause of the sleep problems is its own bad self. Didn’t I state that I felt Vista was responsible for this problem? I thought so. Vista recommended that I apply the Microsoft hotfix in this KB article which I promptly did:
So far today I have experienced no sleep problems so I am crossing my fingers that this resolves them permanently.
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The puzzling thing is, why did Vista not make this recommendation on the first occurance of the issue? Maybe the KB was not ready then, or maybe these KB have to reach a certain age before the OS “finds them?”
This patch was released on 10 December. There is a thread about it at:
http://www.gottabemobile.com/CommentView,guid,2b747d00-9680-4099-a7a4-e29107d5de61.aspx
I haven’t tried it yet – note that “users may be unable to use Windows Explorer to eject removable media. However, only some users may experience this problem” as detailed at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943899.
Where are all the posts praising Vista for self diagnosing the problem that nobody here could figure out? So many were happy to pile on with Vista bashing comments before… weird.
the way it works is like this:
1. something bad happens
2. you click the send this to microsoft button
3. if this is a crash that has a fix, you get a fix recommended, otherwise
4. crash dumps are scanned and put in bugs to be addressed
5a. if the bug is microsoft, team gets the bug.
5b. if the bug is some 3rd party (even if it is outside windows, it is considered 3rd party)other company is contacted so they can fix their bug
6. high volume bugs are addressed and released as hotfixes, kb articles are generated
group hug
I am trying this one. This just started and I have the update you talk ablout above already.
2008/12/21