August 30, 2007
more vista woes - not sleeping
My latest Vista on MacBook Pro problem is that it's not sleeping on lid close consistently. This morning when I arrived at the office and pulled my MBP out of the bag, the fans were all running full-blast, the shell was almost too hot to handle, and my battery was half drained. Apparently when I closed the lid and stuffed the machine in its bag at home about an hour earlier, it didn't actually go to sleep like it was supposed to.
I tested it a few times during the day and three out of four times I closed the lid, it went to sleep within about 10 seconds. One time, however, after 30 seconds it still wasn't sleeping and I opened it to see that everything was still running.
If anyone knows what's going on here, I'd appreciate the help.
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Posted by: Mr Lizard | August 30, 2007 11:26 PM
Are you sure you're not seeing this, that the MBP wakes up in the bag? Although I had this problem on OSX, no idea if it's the same problem in Vista:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=621401&tstart=0
Posted by: Thomas Stache | August 30, 2007 11:34 PM
I sometimes have the same problem (and I run Vista on a Dell). I wonder if it is not Vista crashing, and restarting. Often I see a notice that e.g. firefox has been closed in a not normal way ...
Posted by: eric | August 30, 2007 11:37 PM
So what have you found in Vista (besides problems)? :-)
Posted by: Favorite Browser | August 31, 2007 1:08 AM
The same thing happens to me from time to time on my Dell under Windows XP. I've never had sleep work well on any hardware on any OS. I wonder if there isn't something in the underlying Intel chipsets that just doesn't work correctly.
Posted by: Jon Henry | August 31, 2007 5:13 AM
I must support those who state Vista inherited it from XP since my Latitude D800 suffers from insomnia too.
Posted by: funTomas | August 31, 2007 7:07 AM
I've had this happen to me on my new Dell Inspiron 1720, which is essentially the same hardware as the MBP. I'm not sure what the problem is...but it's really irritating. I initially thought it was my video drivers (nVidia hasn't exactly been releasing stable drivers for their 8x00 line of GPUs recently). But If others are having the same problem, then I guess it's not.
Posted by: David Stone | August 31, 2007 10:33 AM
Yeah, the problem is that you are running Vista. Switch to a serious operating system and your MBP won't be at risk of bursting into flames.
Posted by: Matias Jose | August 31, 2007 11:38 AM
Are you sure that all applications have been shut down correctly? On a Windows XP laptop I sometime have troubles related to MS-Office.
MS-Office is then blocking the stand-by option because it still has a file open...
Posted by: Kees Grinwis | September 1, 2007 12:35 AM
I don't run Windows on my MacBook using Boot Camp so this is really an ignorant question- does Boot Camp officially support Vista?
If it does, perhaps it's a driver issue that needs fixing by Apple.