Standby, Hibernation, Shutdown Hangs

[chadwicktr]

I have had problems with standby, hibernating, and restarting my T61 all summer with running Vista. It's random, probably 30% of the time, my machine will restart or go into standby with no problems, but the other 70% of time it will hang with a blank screen until the battery dies (the HD/wifi/etc lights will remain on).

Although I don't know if it's related, I've had to disable the WUSB in the device manager because it would frequently give me USB errors in the system tray.

I'm assuming I have some kind of driver error that Vista is having trouble putting it to sleep or shutting it off.

How can I go about troubleshooting this error? Do I use the "event viewer?" Is there a specific place to go in the event viewer?

I never had problems with my T61 the first several months, then my motherboard was replaced after it died, and I've had these standby/shutdown issues and the WUSB errors. It's really quite frustrating.

I believe all of my drivers are updated, and Vista should be updated as well.


Thanks,

CT

[chadwicktr]

Interestingly enough, the problem was easily solved! Turns out vista didn't care for my SD card staying in the card reader. I use it for frequent backups, and in XPP I never had an issue with it.

Now that I've taken it out, no problems.

[hellosailor]

Thanks for that, I've had similar problems and no idea why. I also keep an SD card in the slot--and have noticed that sometimes the SD slot drivers are unreliable (despite updates) and the card has to be popped in and out to "engage".

(And that's ignoring a side issue, some cards are a little too thin, and won't trigger the read/write sensor properly unless you put a piece of tape over them. This one, doesn't have that problem.)

Now...where to install an "sd holster" on the computer, to store that card... ??

[jo2008]

I've had issues with SDHC cards when using them as ReadyBoost device. The system would become unresponsive and in the event viewer it reported a driver crash.

Also, the SD card reader driver crashed when switching between SD cards..

I stopped using the Lenovo drivers and found the Ricoh Mediareader drivers v.6.00.01.13 to be working better. Have not tried the ReadyBoost option, though.

[hellosailor]

"I stopped using the Lenovo drivers and found the Ricoh Mediareader drivers v.6.00.01.13 to be working better. "

Better? Does the system still like to show a "creeping green bar of death" when an SD card is present at all? Any problems?

[jo2008]

Well, I'm not quite sure what a creeping green bar is

But as far as "better" is concerned: I did not have issues with the driver when switching SD cards anymore. Thats all I can say.

Maybe you issues will be solved as well. Might be worth a try before you build a holster

Jo

[hellosailor]

jo, if you search the web for "Vista creeping green bar" or "green bar of death" you'll see many complaints on it.

Several users have noticed the same thing I had, and one pinned it down to the presence of the SD card. With a card in the slot, open a large directory/folder. The "green bar" across the top takes forever to load, the directory takes forever to open, the whole system bogs down.

Repeat same operation with no SD card in the system--and there's no problem, no slowdown at all.

But of course, there are no driver problems on LeNoNo systems.<G>

Where (URL) did you find the Ricoh drivers? Not the Russian site, one hopes?

[jo2008]

I think the creeping bar was what I called freeze (with reported shadow volume something crash). That could've been my readyboost-problem.

I'm not really sure where exactly I got the drivers...

I can only find the .12 drivers now, one version earlier:
http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/Other- ... 0112.shtml

Also there are some drivers here that would even top the version I mentioned. Don't know if they'll fit our system:
http://www.downloadatoz.com/driver/item_274450.html


Jo