Can't get vista to sleep.

For some reason my vista sleep mode is whacked.

I put my vista to sleep, and it shuts down, but then within 1 to 3 seconds
it starts right back up again.

I've gone into the device manager and turned off the ability for the mouse
and or keyboard to wake up the system, but it still goes to sleep then
immediately wakes right up again.

All help appreciated.

LAN activity can wake up the computer, check your BIOS settings.

"Lakesidezx" <lakesidezx@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:14AC4CA1-23C3-4470-B07D-124E73236F16@microsoft.com...
> For some reason my vista sleep mode is whacked.
>
> I put my vista to sleep, and it shuts down, but then within 1 to 3 seconds
> it starts right back up again.
>
> I've gone into the device manager and turned off the ability for the mouse
> and or keyboard to wake up the system, but it still goes to sleep then
> immediately wakes right up again.
>
> All help appreciated.
>

Found the problem.....

It was a "gadget", I had the weatherbug and a calandar gadget, both of these
will access the net for new information (the calendar loads up a new image
behind it) and the weatherbug pulls new weather, so i removed both of these
and now the computer sleeps as it should.


"Lakesidezx" <lakesidezx@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:14AC4CA1-23C3-4470-B07D-124E73236F16@microsoft.com...
> For some reason my vista sleep mode is whacked.
>
> I put my vista to sleep, and it shuts down, but then within 1 to 3 seconds
> it starts right back up again.
>
> I've gone into the device manager and turned off the ability for the mouse
> and or keyboard to wake up the system, but it still goes to sleep then
> immediately wakes right up again.
>
> All help appreciated.
>

Spoke too soon.

It worked one time, then I re awoke the computer and tried it again and it
immediately wakes up again. So it must not have been the gadgets at all.


"Lakesidezx" <lakesidezx@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:81E422BF-329D-4A51-AB4D-E78B8ECA7AA8@microsoft.com...
> Found the problem.....
>
> It was a "gadget", I had the weatherbug and a calandar gadget, both of
> these will access the net for new information (the calendar loads up a new
> image behind it) and the weatherbug pulls new weather, so i removed both
> of these and now the computer sleeps as it should.
>
>
> "Lakesidezx" <lakesidezx@nowhere.net> wrote in message
> news:14AC4CA1-23C3-4470-B07D-124E73236F16@microsoft.com...
>> For some reason my vista sleep mode is whacked.
>>
>> I put my vista to sleep, and it shuts down, but then within 1 to 3
>> seconds it starts right back up again.
>>
>> I've gone into the device manager and turned off the ability for the
>> mouse and or keyboard to wake up the system, but it still goes to sleep
>> then immediately wakes right up again.
>>
>> All help appreciated.
>>
>

[kptrikstar]

Thanks,
Just tried that but computer wakes up as soon as it goes to sleep still.

Like the original poster in the thread you linked to, it's just one of those
nigglies that keeps pestering me to get working though not absolutely
necessary. It'll probably drive me pretty much insane before I can figure
it out.

[prj44]

My thanks to all the effort that has gone into this thread. I have implemented ALL of the suggested changes. Unfortunately, Vista still won't sleep.
Then I removed my wireless mouse/keyboard (through USB) and replaced them with traditional (wired) USB devices. And Vista sleeps...and recovers...and sleeps ... and recovers.
While my problem may yet involve the wireless dongle, I suspect that this problem must await SP1. I hope somebody from Microsoft is reading this.

Thanks again for your suggested remedies.

While this is an old post from nealy 1 1/2 years ago, it solved my
issue....at least the first time I tried "sleep" after disallowing 2 devices
to awake the computer. Thanks very much!

"charla13" wrote:

> Try this it solved my sleep problem
> go to: Control Panel - Network Adaptors
> click on listings until you find the one with a "Power
> Management" Tab. (on my computer it was the first tab)
> Unclick "allow this device to wake Computer"
>
> (there is even a warning on that tab about this)
>
> Like I said this solved my problem. Hope it works for you!!
> charla13
>
> "Lakesidezx" wrote:
>
> > For some reason my vista sleep mode is whacked.
> >
> > I put my vista to sleep, and it shuts down, but then within 1 to 3 seconds
> > it starts right back up again.
> >
> > I've gone into the device manager and turned off the ability for the mouse
> > and or keyboard to wake up the system, but it still goes to sleep then
> > immediately wakes right up again.
> >
> > All help appreciated.
> >