Hi Brink/Shawn,
Thanks a lot for the tutorial. It was really helpful. I could not believe
how much configuring had to be done to set Power Options to work.
Niall

"Brink" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> Niall;736275 Wrote:
>> I've had Vista Home Premium on a new desktop PC for about 6 weeks now.
>> Instead of shutting down most of the time I have set it to sleep. In
>> "Sleep"
>> the fan does not stop running and I doubt the hard drive stops
>> spinning, the
>> light in the front of the computer does not flash but stays on, the
>> keyboard
>> light stays on and the only effect "Sleep" seems to have is make me
>> have to
>> reenter my password. When I do that "wakeup" there is no sound change
>> and I
>> don't think my PC has ever really slept. I've tried all the
>> configurations
>> in Power Options. I have no option to hibernate.
>> Any suggestions how to make Sleep work, or to enable hibernation?
>> Niall
>
> Hi Niall,
>
> This tutorial may be able to help you. It will give you steps to look
> at to see what may be causing your sleep problem.
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/63...-problems.html
>
> Shawn