T43p freezes when going into Standby

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thefultonhow · #1 Post by **thefultonhow** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 4:53 pm

My T43p freezes at the blue Welcome-screen-type screen that says "Preparing to stand by..." This happens about one-third to half the time. I believe it also does it on Hibernate, but I don't use that as much. It started doing it after a while on my first clean install of XP. I upgraded to Vista and stopped having the problem, but I had other problems so I reformatted and downgraded to XP, and now I have the same problem again.

Any ideas? Google and the forum search are pretty much useless...

#2 Post by **richk** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:20 pm

First, look in the event viewer. There may be a message.

thefultonhow · #3 Post by **thefultonhow** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:50 pm

Nothing in either the System or Application logs. The closest to any kind of error at all is one right before I went to put the computer in sleep mode from the TCPIP service:

The system detected that network adapter Broadcom...Ethernet - Packet Scheduler Miniport was disconnected from the network, and the adapter's network configuration has been released. If the network adapter was not disconnected, this may indicate that it has malfunctioned. Please contact your vendor for updated drivers.

I don't think the ethernet card would be keeping the computer from going into sleep...

#4 Post by **richk** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:34 pm

It could. If you are not using a wired network connection, try disabling it in the BIOS

ajkula66 · #5 Post by **ajkula66** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:42 pm

Also try updating and/or rolling back the Broadcom drivers.

thefultonhow · #6 Post by **thefultonhow** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:49 pm

I do use the wired connection on occasion -- would disabling it in Windows be sufficient for troubleshooting purposes? That way I don't need to reboot every time I want to use it. Rolling back won't work because these are the only Broadcom drivers I've ever had on this Windows install, and I'm sure they are the latest ones because I got them from the Lenovo site two days ago.

#7 Post by **richk** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:54 pm

I'm not suggestinjg you turn it off in the BIOS and leave it off. I am just trying to figure out what is failing.

ajkula66 · #8 Post by **ajkula66** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:56 pm

I'm not sure that disabling it in XP will solve the problem, but it doesn't hurt to try.

Let us know how that flies.

thefultonhow · #9 Post by **thefultonhow** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:11 am

richk wrote:I'm not suggestinjg you turn it off in the BIOS and leave it off. I am just trying to figure out what is failing.

The problem is, if prior behavior is any indication, that it could crash on the next time I try to put it to sleep, or it could take a week. I don't particularly want to have to shut it off for a week, although if really necessary I suppose I could do that (I am more seeing if anyone else has ever seen this problem, though).

davidspalding · #10 Post by **davidspalding** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:58 am

I have lock up problems suspending or hibernating with the Omega video drivers from a logged in session. Logging out resolves the hibernate issue, but suspend/standby just locks up hard, and also locks up on hard reset and boot (it continues trying to suspend). So I just don't; my work style allows this.

I use NT/2000 login parameters, so I'm not sure how facile it would be for you to try that.

thefultonhow · #11 Post by **thefultonhow** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:46 am

I turned off my network card in the BIOS, but the computer just locked up again going into sleep.

T43p freezes when going into Standby

T43p freezes when going into Standby

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