Windows 7 sleep mode ***

[vairox]

I figured I'd start using sleep mode instead of running the pc all night, so I can't figure out *** the deal is... I built my kid a system (mini itx, G530) and you hit the sleep button on the keyboard and it goes to sleep, hit wake up and it's at the login screen...mine? you hit sleep and it takes 21 seconds and then it sounds like you pulled the plug from the wall, everything goes off BOOM... hit wake up and it's like a cold boot, except it says "resuming windows" and sometimes that's all it does, won't move past that and if it does load up then the system becomes unresponsive, taskbar is black etc... bios is set to enable hibernation, set to S3, enabled keyboard/mouse wake up in bios and OS, power options set to enable hybrid sleep and set to "sleep" if sleep button is pressed.

[James]

I figured I'd start using sleep mode instead of running the pc all night, so I can't figure out *** the deal is... I built my kid a system (mini itx, G530) and you hit the sleep button on the keyboard and it goes to sleep, hit wake up and it's at the login screen...mine? you hit sleep and it takes 21 seconds and then it sounds like you pulled the plug from the wall, everything goes off BOOM... hit wake up and it's like a cold boot, except it says "resuming windows" and sometimes that's all it does, won't move past that and if it does load up then the system becomes unresponsive, taskbar is black etc... bios is set to enable hibernation, set to S3, enabled keyboard/mouse wake up in bios and OS, power options set to enable hybrid sleep and set to "sleep" if sleep button is pressed.

Quick fix if you never plan on using hibernate:

1. windows key (to bring up start menu, type 'cmd', then right click, run as administrator.
2. powercfg -h off

Disables hibernate and gets back the hdd space it takes to enable it (for example, for the PC in your sig, it would create a 16GB hibernate file to mirror RAM to).

IMHO: Use sleep, not hibernate. As for what the button does, you can probably configure that in settings. I just never use hibernate, so I always disable it. Hibernate copies the entire contents of your RAM into a file on the hard drive. Now that computers can have 16GB or 32GB of RAM, hibernate is a broken technology. It takes longer than a clean shutdown startup due to the large amount of data being copied. If you are using spinning media (and even to a lesser extent an SSD) with a large amount of RAM (>8GB) it is very time consuming.

[vairox]

Nice, I got it to "sleep" by disabling hibernation in bios. Now when I wake it up I can log in, and it's fine for about 3 or 4 seconds and then the system just locks up like the mouse moves but no function, no function with the keyboard, I tried disabling powering off USB to save power etc idk, I think it's the system drive it's probably just too old and spins too slow to "wake up" and I'm too lazy to buy an SSD and clone the drive and deal with all that lol, oh well. Thanks for the help tho!

[Wurm]

Are all your motherboard drivers up to date?

Because that sounds like it might be the issue.