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Sometimes I think this computer was designed to drive me crazy and any other purpose is simply incidental.

I've noticed that perhaps since I installed Vista SP1, perhaps coincidental and only around the same time, my T61p has been refusing to sleep.

I've been running it on AC with the battery pulled out (why wear the battery?) and checked the power settings, which were set to "Never" sleep on AC and now are set to allow sleep, just in case that was overiding things. But when I close the lid, or hit Fcn-F4, or pick SLEEP from the start menu...the screen blacks out, the hard drive eventually settles down, but the sleep light doesn't turn on and simply moving the mouse will make the screen light back up.

It USED TO SLEEP.

What on earth...do I just start uninstalling things like AVG8 and pull the stuffing out? Is there a known issue with SP1?

Anyone got a place I can start looking, logically?

[LATER]
PROBLEM SOLVED! ITS THOSE [censored] SLOPPY UPGRADES!
After hours of wasted time...I found two culprits, the usual suspects were responsible for this. Microsoft and Lenovo, step up and take a bow. Apparently Vista SP1 or another update reverted my power options from "Sleep" to "Hybrid Sleep". Then, compounding the error, a recent Lenovo update made a similar change in the LENOVO power management options. Perhaps one forced the other...perhaps coincidentally both made changes in their updates. Either way, I found both changed--by the updates process.

Now that they both have been manually tracked down and manually reset..sleep is working just fine again, just the way I set it months ago.

It is so nice to see vendors running roughshod over user settings. NOT.

Not much help I guess, but my T61 sleeps well with SP1.

It might be a device driver. I'd try disabling the devices one by one in device manager, reboot, then try to sleep. Will not neccesary help though...

I have this problem on my T60 too (XP SP3). Standby was never a problem on previous Thinkpads. I think there is a process that prevent it from going to Stdby. So I had to open the lid again and sometime it would go to Stdby.

Sometime it would not undock due to printer being in use. But the printer is not in use or even off.

Thanks, guys. Before I start the long process (no pun intended) on randomly pulling things out...I checked system update last night (the Lenovo one) and found a lot of new patches somehow missed, so I'm dl'oing those today to see if they address the problem.

Closing the lid has mimiced the "not really sleeping" problem, so at least (haha) the lid and FnF4 button still do the same thing as each other. And I noticed this morning that the silver 1/0 button, which had previously SHUT the computer stone cold dead, apparently has shifted to a hibernat FnF12 behavior--because this morning the computer said it was "resuming" rather than cold starting.

This little computer will be sent to bed without any electrons unless it behaves better tonight.<G>

I used have the intermittant problem of not being able to put my T61 XP SP2 into standby. Since replacing norton antivirus 2007 with NOD32, the problem has not recurred.

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No problem here, T60 WinXP SP3, NOD32