[meviin]

I have a new HP dv6000t laptop with 2G ram, vista home premium, up to date bios, 120G hd, t5300 intel core 2 duo.

About 3/4 of the time, sleep works, but every once in a while it doesn't. What happens is the screen goes dark as if it were going to sleep, but nothing else occurs. I am still able to access my computer, I just can't see anything. Eg, if I use my hotkeys for winamp or media buttons, I can still change songs on Winamp. I can also use alt-f4 to close my winamp window. I haven't really been able to test anything else because I can't see it. If I do nothing, the computer eventually (not sure exactly how long. maybe about 10 minutes?) reboots itself and says that there was an error shutting down. The only other way out that I have found is to do a hard reboot.

I'm not sure if hibernate / standby have the same problem or if it's just a sleep issue.

Does anyone have any ideas what is causing it or how to fix it?

Thanks

[jtatsud]

What kind of motherboard (and BIOS) does your system have? I had similar sporadic sleep problems with my system. They were fixed recently by a BIOS fix. I have an EVGA motherboard with an Intel 680i chipset. EVGA just issued a BIOS fix for my sleep problem on July 3rd. If you need more details, let me know.

[meviin]

my issue was with a sporadic bug that happens when online.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
fixes it.

Thanks for the bios idea and sorry that I didn't post the solution for so long.