Vista sleep

[clocker]

Both.

[mr. nails]

Both.

i'll try the 8 hours later, but putting it to sleep and immediately waking it up worked fine for me. i do not have sp1 as u well know though. if that makes a diff couldn't tell ya.

[tesco]

Huh.. thats weird. I always put my laptop to sleep and it only wakes up when I press my power button.. and thats how it has always worked for me.

Same for me because when I choose sleep in vista it shuts the computer right off (hibernation).

[clocker]

OK, I just went back and reloaded "optimised defaults" in BIOS (bye-bye, overclock!) and set the Power Options to "balanced".

STILL won't wake up from sleep properly.
Moving the mouse, hitting a key or pressing the power button...same thing- cyclical reboots.
I let it go for 5 attempts before it got too scary to go on.
Switch off power at the back of the PSU, let her sit for a moment, power it back on and hit the power button and it'll cycle twice, reset the BIOS to default and then attempt to start (which it can't because BIOS default is non-RAID so I get "operating system not found" till I switch that back).

When it finally DOES start, I get the "Resuming Windows" screen instead of the normal progress bar and it acts like nothing bad happened.

The only other thing I can think to try would be a fresh OS install on a non-RAID disk but sheesh, that's a lot of work and hardly seems worth it.

Which means I'll probably try it sooner or later.