I have written that the HP 2710p I am using is providing a tight integration with Vista avoiding many of the problems that other devices have running Vista. It is no doubt due to good device drivers that follow whatever the guidelines that Microsoft has provided for such things. There is one problem that Vista does have that affects the HP that I should point out, although it’s turned out to not be a big negative in my usage of the 2710p. Vista has a problem when it resumes from sleep mode that sometimes fails to reconnect to some USB equipment installed in the computer. I go through many sleep/ resume cycles each day and at least once a day when the HP resumes from sleep I’ll hear the familiar Vista thunk indicating that a USB device has failed to initialize. This failure is usually the integrated USB Bluetooth module but occasionally is the USB web cam. The device is no longer enabled when this happens, even though it was working fine at sleep time.
The fix is very simple I determined. I open up the Device Manager where I’ll see the affected device indicated by the familiar yellow exclamation mark. I click it and hit the Disable button, even though the device is already disabled in Vista, and then select it again and hit the Enable button. Vista never fails to start it properly when I do this and then everything is fine until the next resume failure. It doesn’t fail every time, usually just once or twice a day. The easy fix tells me this is indeed a problem with Vista and not the device driver for the equipment so hopefully a fix will be forthcoming by Microsoft for this as it is a known problem. There has already been a hotfix that is intended to address this problem but interestingly when I tried to install it Vista told me that my device didn’t need this fix. That implies that HP had already applied those hotfixes that were released prior to my purchase of the 2710p which is pretty cool, even though it didn’t fix this problem I am having. The simple fix means that this is not a big deal when it happens so it’s not affecting me too much but the problem is there and should be dealt with by an update in the future.
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