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Power management problems again....

Sometimes when I press Sleep button, "Preparing to stand by..." appears, but nothing happen. What's wrong?

This is Windows XP Pro with SP3.

Hard to say. Stand-by works on my T41 XP Pro machine (now mostly not used), and works on my T61p Vista Business 64-bit (now my daily driver). I have the newest power manager on the Vista machine and a reasonably new power manager on the XP machine.

Try uninstalling power manager, and suspending with the Windows native power manager, see if that works, and then that will help determine if it is a Windows issue or a Lenovo power manager issue. ... JDH

jdhurst wrote:Try uninstalling power manager.... JDH

I forget to say, yesterday I updated BIOS (1.10 --> 2.22), but no help.
Right now I updated Power Management driver and Power Manager to newest version.

So, lets see ...

Sorry my mistake: I noticed all my Lenovo drivers and software are quite old.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-62928

My Windows is allways up to date.

Interesting.

I am running Vista Ultimate on my T60 with no Lenovo drivers minus OSD. Hibernation works great and so did sleep until the battery crapped out on me.

Check your power profiles. I'd right click on the desktop, then choose the screen saver tab. Next hit 'power' and take a look. I could be off a tab there because I haven't used XP in a while, but I do recall configuring my power options from there. You can always try under the control panel as well.

Good luck.

Temetka wrote:Interesting.

I am running Vista Ultimate on my T60 with no Lenovo drivers minus OSD. Hibernation works great and so did sleep until the battery crapped out on me.

Hibernation works great me too, but my problem is Standby (sleep) -mode.

I knew that.

I was just posting to say that my 'stock' Vista T60 handles both sleep (once I get that replacement battery from Lenovo) and hibernation. Thus proving that my ACPI and APM systems are fully functional.

Are there any programs running on your system during the attempted sleep operations?

Have you checked your system logs to see if anything is being reported for not entering sleep or something along those lines?

Temetka wrote: Are there any programs running on your system during the attempted sleep operations?

Well, I have thinked that, but hard to say.

Temetka wrote:Have you checked your system logs to see if anything is being reported for not entering sleep or something along those lines?

Where can I find that system log? Perhaps there are something...

Someone else posted that has XP system would hang if there was a Zip cartridge in his zip drive. My Vista system will hang if there's an SD card in the SD socket.

Among the many things that will make startup and sleep take up to 15 minutes? Software and driver conflicts, and external media in any type of drive/slot.

Someone at MS needs to be beaten, repeatedly, until they find and fix this vulnerability. NT is not supposed to be this fragile.

missee wrote: .... I updated Power Management driver....

Yes! Now it works correctly.

I am having similar problem to Missee. When I close the lid, it should enter stand by. However, when I open it and the screen lights, there is a message that says "Preparing to Stand By". At this point the system is frozen and now other function works, including ctrl-alt-del. Alternatively, if I select stand by from the start menu, the same "Preparing to Stand By" message appears with the same frozen result.

I have run latest AVG virus and malware software (nothing detected) and HijackThis (no issues detected).

Also ran Windows and Lenovo updates recently. One was a BIOS update to latest 79ETE3WW (2.23) 9/12/08. Other recent changes included Power Manager update. Or is it a possible Windows SP3 issue?

Any other suggestions?

Thank you!

Sysinfo:

ThinkPad T60
Model 2623-D9U
Type B6377
Memory: 1G
OS: XP SP3