Laptop freezes when it goes into sleep. I HATE VISTA. help!

bassist 4 life · #1 08-23-2008, 11:48 AM

Argh!!!

Okay, so my laptop computer was being a bit laggy yesterday, i thought that it was okay since I leave my laptop on when i go to bed and it gets a bit laggy when it goes to sleep more than its shut down. It was totally fine, other than a little laggy-ness. It would go into sleep mode and come back and it'd be alright. It operated just like it did any other day.

I went to my friends house later at night, i put my computer to sleep and i put it in my bagpack. Went there, took it out, opened it, and it wouldnt go out of sleep mode. It just froze. Like the screen was black and all. I was forced to hold down the power button and shut it down and then start it up again. I noticed on my rambooster program thingy that my ram was lower than usual too.

From that moment on, my laptop would just go into sleep mode and stay that way. Like when i'd leave it on and go to the bathroom or something, it'd go into sleep and then i'm left with just a black screen. The only way to get it out is to force the computer to shut down and then start it up again.

I shut down the computer to let it "cool down" for a couple of hours and that didnt help too.

help? vista never acted this way with me before, its the first time its done this.

oh and btw my laptop is an HP DV6000 with windows vista home premium, intel dua core 2.0 ghz, and a 1 gig ram.

fenderhutz · #2 08-23-2008, 11:48 AM

Have you updated to Service Pack 1 yet? Also 1GB of RAM is laughable with Vista.

bassist 4 life · #3 08-23-2008, 11:57 AM

yeah i know, but thats what came with the laptop when i bought it.

they're selling laptopts with 512mb rams and vista here, i cringe whenever i imagine how theyre like.

oh, and no, i dont think i have service pack 1 installed.

Scarlet Fire · #4 08-23-2008, 12:05 PM

Might sound stupid, but did you try just pressing the power button once?

TheDarkReaver · #5 08-23-2008, 12:12 PM

Turn off sleep mode then.

Muusers · #6 08-23-2008, 12:14 PM

sounds to me your computer has gotten fat and lazy

from downloading too much porn

Bassic83 · #7 08-23-2008, 12:15 PM

Yet another reason I hate Windoze. Seriously bloated, and dog slow unless you have at least 2GB RAM. I'm running Linux on a netbook, Acer Aspire One, it has 1GB RAM, Intel Atom proc at 1.6G, 8GB SSD, and it boots up in 13 seconds.

fdeck · #8 08-23-2008, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Bassic83

Yet another reason I hate Windoze. Seriously bloated, and dog slow unless you have at least 2GB RAM. I'm running Linux on a netbook, Acer Aspire One, it has 1GB RAM, Intel Atom proc at 1.6G, 8GB SSD, and it boots up in 13 seconds.

Which distro, and do you have any experience with WINE? I am getting ready to wipe my notebook computer clean and install Linux, but there are a few Windows apps that I absolutely need to run.

Bassic83 · #9 08-23-2008, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by fdeck

Which distro, and do you have any experience with WINE? I am getting ready to wipe my notebook computer clean and install Linux, but there are a few Windows apps that I absolutely need to run.

Hey Francis,
I have run Wine, and most programs run fine in it. The really big stuff like Office 2k3 and 2k7 aren't great in it, but mostly you can get around with Open Office.org just fine. If you are going with a full Linux distro, I'd recommend Xubuntu. Seems to like all the hardware I've installed it on. Make a bootable USB recovery stick with an iso burner, there are a few apps out there that will automatically do that for you, the app I used is something like unetinstall, poke around with Google, it'll turn up.

The distro on my netbook is a weird Chinese-developed version called Linpus Lite, and it's somewhat crippled, as it isn't a complete distro. Certain s/w installs fail dependency checks, some commands won't work, etc. It's based off Fedora 8, but it has some features I like (like the 13-second boot-up time), and it's eminently hackable. I have xfce as my desktop now, there is a switch-desktop script that I found that swaps it back and forth between xfce and the dumbed-down version. So far, I'm real pleased with it, neat little gadget, about the size of a hard-back book! Great for traveling!

Bassic83 · #10 08-23-2008, 01:32 PM

BTW, get another hard drive and install it to that rather than wiping it clean. Get it running good with all the drivers and everything before you get rid of Windoze...it really helps to be able to just slap another hard drive in there and be in Windoze again...just an FYI...

mothmonsterman · #11 08-23-2008, 01:49 PM

Honestly, if you don;t want to go to linux,
Just back your files up and load XP, it's solid enough.
Vista is trash.

SelenaBassGirl · #12 08-23-2008, 03:28 PM

I hate Windows Vista too. I have it on my laptop, and it is slow...I wish I could change it to XP like on my desktops, but I don't wanna screw it up...

**Vorago** · #13 08-23-2008, 03:56 PM

Get XP. Really.

Linux is nice too if you can get your hardware to cooperate, I tried Ubuntu on my laptop but gave after 8 hours of attempting to install an external modem.

**Thor** · #14 08-23-2008, 04:05 PM

My wife got a Dell laptop 3 months ago with Vista, nothing but problems.

Froze constantly.

Turns out the last few months they (Dell) have been shipping computers with bad video cards (from a 3rd party vendor).. Class action suit now in progress as they apparently knew about it. My son found some link about that somewhere.

They replaced the card for free , my son dumped Vista for Linux and she surfs and emails with no issues now. As a matter of fact, she is probably lurking as we speak ...

TimWilson · #15 08-23-2008, 04:10 PM

I love my Macs. And they run Windows. PC magazine says the new Macs run Windows FASTER than PCs...

fdeck · #16 08-23-2008, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Bassic83

BTW, get another hard drive and install it to that rather than wiping it clean. Get it running good with all the drivers and everything before you get rid of Windoze...it really helps to be able to just slap another hard drive in there and be in Windoze again...just an FYI...

Good idea. In fact, it looks like Linux will install on a flash drive, which will give me a chance to try it out virtually risk-free.

Bassic83 · #17 08-23-2008, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by fdeck

Good idea. In fact, it looks like Linux will install on a flash drive, which will give me a chance to try it out virtually risk-free.

It will. The program I was referring to earlier does it all for you, just d/l the distro, then d/l this program on a windoze machine, then open it and point it at your iso source and flash drive target, then let er rip! Then boot into Linux.

**Pacman** · #18 08-23-2008, 04:44 PM

I have had (knocks wood) zero problems with my Gateway laptop running Vista.

Mutant Corn · #19 08-23-2008, 05:12 PM

I think I've had about the opposite experience of you guys...Vista has almost always run well for me, while linux (ubuntu gusty/hardy, xubuntu gusty/hardy, and ubuntu studio hardy) have all failed me. Every time I install it, I end up going back to Vista because features just stop working...it all works fine when I install it and then everything starts going to heck. The exception is the wireless, which worked fine in gusty...though any version of hardy refuses to recognize my NON-BROADCOM wireless card. I guess I'm just unlucky...

fdeck · #20 08-23-2008, 05:19 PM

I will know soon, because my new "work notebook" will probably have Vista. Switching to Linux on my home notebook is mainly to see what it's like.