x200s suspend/resume hell

[jll]

When I try to resume my x200s from sleep, 3/4 of the time the screen remains black; the hard disk light flashes for a while then nothing, and I have to reboot.

When it does wake up, the Vista "locked" screen comes up and tells me to wait until the fingerprint reader is ready. 1/2 of the time it never becomes ready, so I try to log on with the password. 1/2 of the time it just freezes after I have typed my password and enter. And I have to reboot.

All in all I have to reboot most of the time. Which takes a good 3 minutes when running on batteries. Sometimes during the reboot Vista decides to check the disk. That takes many more minutes.

I take my laptop on the train to work. That's a 15 minute trip. Often my laptop is ready just when I arrive.

I have installed the new power manager driver. This reminds me that my old x40 suffered from resume problems for quite a while, until an update was released. It looks like IBM started a tradition of putting on the market laptops that don't resume from sleep properly, and Lenovo has picked up this tradition with enthusiasm.

Anybody has similar problems? Better, does anybody know of a solution?

Thanks,
Jean-Louis

[mattbiernat]

When I try to resume my x200s from sleep, 3/4 of the time the screen remains black; the hard disk light flashes for a while then nothing, and I have to reboot.s

although i do not own X200, i had similar problem with Vista a couple of months ago. the problem went away after updating to SP2.

I take my laptop on the train to work. That's a 15 minute trip. Often my laptop is ready just when I arrive.

slow boot has to do with you not configuring your laptop properly. my 3 year old T60 boots in 55s. my new T300 boots in 40s. there is a lot of discussion around here on how to speed up Vista. try searching the forum.
few tips from me:
- disable check disk at start up option
- uninstall as many lenovo apps as you can
- disable start up apps
- disable services
- turn off indexing
- turn off prefetching/ready boost
- install slim antivirus (NOD32 instead of avira, norton, etc...)

there is no reason for your laptop to take more than 90s to start up.

[jll]

although i do not own X200, i had similar problem with Vista a couple of months ago. the problem went away after updating to SP2.

I already have SP2 installed.

I have the impression that the problem happens only when my laptop is unplugged.

slow boot has to do with you not configuring your laptop properly. [...] there is no reason for your laptop to take more than 90s to start up.

I don't mind that it boots slowly as long as suspend/resume works. "Normally" I should boot it once and let it run for weeks...

J-L

[jll]

I have the impression that the problem happens only when my laptop is unplugged.

Well correction: it just happened now

I am trying to enter the Bios setup but the thing is protected by a password. Anybody knows what/where it can be?

J-L

[mattbiernat]

what i found about Windows XP, Vista and all other windows versions is that often times it is not the operating system that is imperfect but either the end user or the non-windows software. so in that said i think it is one of the applications that you have installed in Vista that is preventing it from hibernating/suspending properly. try reinstalling your entire O.S. and see if you still have that problem. at least that is what i would do. maybe somone else in this forum has another idea. and this post should be moved to Windows Vista forum.