Problems after comming out of standby/hibernation are not uncommon.

That "is" a valid answer and not a bad workaround/solution.

Nick Goetz

"Mobilehavoc" <tejas.nadkarni******.com> wrote in
news:1173968038.082638.159860@l75g2000hse.googlegroups.com:
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> That's not really a valid answer...I'll see the next time this happens
> and continue the troubleshooting. Was just wondering if anyone else
> who had these problems found a solution or stopgap.
>
>
> On Mar 15, 10:04 am, "PC Tech Solutions" <john...@pctech-
> solutions.com> wrote:[color=green]
>> It can be a number of things. But some good advice is, when you are
>> done with the computer for the day, turn it off! Don't just clost
>> the lid put it in standby/hibernation and walk away.
>>
>> PC Tech Solutionshttp://pctech-solutions.com
>>
>> <tejas.nadka...******.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1173967016.490005.103670@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>
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>> > So I've been running Vista Home Premium on my Sony VAIO SZ since
>> > Feb 9th and overall it's been running remarkably well. Haven't
>> > really had any crashes, all the apps I've installed have worked
>> > flawlessly and I'm actually getting better performance in apps,
>> > games in Vista than XP (dual-booting XP so I've been able to
>> > compare).[/color]
>>[color=darkred]
>> > However, I have a really strange problem in that at very random
>> > times Vista seems to freeze and the only thing that will remedy it
>> > is to hold down the power button to turn it off.[/color]
>>[color=darkred]
>> > It's only happened a few times and is not normal occurence. For
>> > example it was running for about 7 days straight without a reboot,
>> > then last night I installed this week's Windows Updates and the
>> > system restarted.[/color]
>>[color=darkred]
>> > This morning I woke up around 8AM and went to check my email, I
>> > opened the lid and it had frozen. The clock still said 2:50AM which
>> > would mean that is when the catastrophe happened. I restarted it
>> > and it came back up fine.[/color]
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>> > I checked the Event logs and there's nothing around that time at
>> > all. I remember using the laptop until around 1:50AM or so so it
>> > was idling when this happened. The other times it's happened also
>> > seem to be either during or right after it's been idling. However,
>> > puzzlingly like I said it'll sometimes run 7 or more days straight
>> > at a time (including numerous hibernation resumes and standby
>> > resumes).[/color]
>>[color=darkred]
>> > Any ideas what could be causing this problem? The only thing in the
>> > logs was an "Unexpected shutdown of Windows" at 2:48AM which is
>> > sort of a "duh!" moment.[/color]
>>[color=darkred]
>> > Overall I'm loving Vista but this is frustrating because I can't
>> > diagnose what the problem is. I have all my power setting timers
>> > turned off (Hard drive powerdown never, hibernate never, standby
>> > never, etc).[/color]
>>[color=darkred]
>> > Oh and this has always happened while the laptop is plugged in. If
>> > anyone knows of any culprits or things I can try please let me
>> > know. I'm going to see how long it runs after this mornings
>> > incident.[/color]
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>> > FYI...Memory test came back fine and like I said it runs everything
>> > beautifully 90% of the time.- Hide quoted text -[/color]
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