X61T Sleep/Hibernate Vista with all updates applied
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:03 pm
First of all, I have applied all updates, both Vista and Lenovo, to my tablet.
I still have the sleep of death issue. Basically, I put the laptop to sleep and the screen blanks and becomes unresponsive (though disk hits occur periodically and randomly). It never sleeps when this happens. At least it doesn't crash after 12 minutes. I've had it in this state for 12 hours before having to power off. The condition is unpredictable. I'd say, on average, 1 out of 3 sleeps fails.
It seems to be related to the network connections. The failure occurs most frequently with WiFi connected. The antenna light stays lit, instead of going off, and the machine goes unresponsive. If the antenna goes off, the machine sleeps. With the WWAN, the same situation can occur, but much nore rarely. If Ethernet is enabled, there is of course no light, but the same thing occasionally happens here, too. Without any network, the problem very rarely occurs.
It is very much as if the system is trying to disconnect from the network and goes into an infinitely loop when it cannot disable the card.
Since I have all the MS patches and Lenovo patches, I wonder if anybody else is still experiencing this.
Since it is more likely to happen when the computer is warm, or been on a long time, I suspect a thermal problem. I will probably go to Lenovo on this, but I'd like to not loose my computer for a few weeks if someone has a fix...
Thanks in advance![/i]
I still have the sleep of death issue. Basically, I put the laptop to sleep and the screen blanks and becomes unresponsive (though disk hits occur periodically and randomly). It never sleeps when this happens. At least it doesn't crash after 12 minutes. I've had it in this state for 12 hours before having to power off. The condition is unpredictable. I'd say, on average, 1 out of 3 sleeps fails.
It seems to be related to the network connections. The failure occurs most frequently with WiFi connected. The antenna light stays lit, instead of going off, and the machine goes unresponsive. If the antenna goes off, the machine sleeps. With the WWAN, the same situation can occur, but much nore rarely. If Ethernet is enabled, there is of course no light, but the same thing occasionally happens here, too. Without any network, the problem very rarely occurs.
It is very much as if the system is trying to disconnect from the network and goes into an infinitely loop when it cannot disable the card.
Since I have all the MS patches and Lenovo patches, I wonder if anybody else is still experiencing this.
Since it is more likely to happen when the computer is warm, or been on a long time, I suspect a thermal problem. I will probably go to Lenovo on this, but I'd like to not loose my computer for a few weeks if someone has a fix...
Thanks in advance![/i]