T40 hangs on resume from hibernation

[kstuart]

I've been working around this problem for months, and I'm finally fed up enough to ask for help.

When my T40 resumes from hibernation, it works fine, except that it doesn't respond to keyboard or pointer commands, except that if I do "ctrl-alt-delete" it will bring up Task Manager, and then, mysteriously, everything works fine.

In other words, the only thing I can do is bring up Task Manager, but when I do that, everything then works normally.

Any ideas? Thanks !

[richk]

Look in the event viewer and see if there is a message.

[syedj]

It sounds like a device driver is waiting for some event or is in a hung state and invoking the three-finger-salute either cancels whatever event/operation it was waiting for or is forcefully timed out by Windows.

Do you have the latest drivers installed? Any third party external wireless or ethernet cards installed? Or any other USB hardware? Any flash media? If so, try removing them and see if the machine still hangs like that.

IHTH.

[kstuart]

Look in the event viewer and see if there is a message.

Actually a good thought, thanks - but nothing much there.

[kstuart]

For the benefit of future forum readers who have a similar problem, I wanted to report that I tracked down the source of the problem.

It turned out to be due to an old "legacy" Win95 app (sticky notes) that I use on desktop PCs (and I don't use hibernate or sleep on desktop PCs so that problem never came up before).

Thanks to those who had suggestions.

[kstuart]

For the benefit of future forum readers who have a similar problem, I wanted to report that I tracked down the source of the problem.

It turned out to be due to an old "legacy" Win95 app (sticky notes) that I use on desktop PCs (and I don't use hibernate or sleep on desktop PCs so that problem never came up before).

Thanks to those who had suggestions.

Uh, no. Still trying to track down this problem.

Every time I change something, the problem goes away for a little while. And then it comes back.

Soon after the post above, it came back.

Now it is worse, it no longer requires a hibernation or screen saver to trigger the problem. After it sits awhile, it does this same lockup (pointer can be moved, Fn combinations work, but left and right click do not work).

It can be cleared by ctrl-alt-delete (ie bring up task manager).