Why won't Vista sleep

When my PC goes to sleep it always wakes up again after a few seconds - any
ideas why this might be?

Well, in my case it is caused by a video card.

If I install an older video card that is not Aero compatible,
sleep/hibernate works fine.

If I install a newer video card that IS compatible with Aero,
sleep/hibernate do not work.

Go figure!

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"MC" <MC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4B46F22E-E0D6-44CA-BF74-96AD13D72EEE@microsoft.com...
> When my PC goes to sleep it always wakes up again after a few seconds -
> any
> ideas why this might be?

I figured out what was going wrong.

I have a "Creative Labs" wireless usb keyboard and mouse. and they were
preventing it from having a sleep.
I set the device options to not "allow device to wake computer" and all is
well.

MC

"Richard Urban" wrote:

> Well, in my case it is caused by a video card.
>
> If I install an older video card that is not Aero compatible,
> sleep/hibernate works fine.
>
> If I install a newer video card that IS compatible with Aero,
> sleep/hibernate do not work.
>
> Go figure!
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
>
>
> "MC" <MC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4B46F22E-E0D6-44CA-BF74-96AD13D72EEE@microsoft.com...
> > When my PC goes to sleep it always wakes up again after a few seconds -
> > any
> > ideas why this might be?
>
>

In may case i only had to set the device option to not "allow device to wake
computer" on the mouse in the device manager.

Larryt
> well.

"MC" wrote:

> I figured out what was going wrong.
>
> I have a "Creative Labs" wireless usb keyboard and mouse. and they were
> preventing it from having a sleep.
> I set the device options to not "allow device to wake computer" and all is
> well.
>
> MC
>
> "Richard Urban" wrote:
>
> > Well, in my case it is caused by a video card.
> >
> > If I install an older video card that is not Aero compatible,
> > sleep/hibernate works fine.
> >
> > If I install a newer video card that IS compatible with Aero,
> > sleep/hibernate do not work.
> >
> > Go figure!
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Richard Urban
> > Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> > (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
> >
> > Quote from George Ankner:
> > If you knew as much as you think you know,
> > You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
> >
> >
> >
> > "MC" <MC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:4B46F22E-E0D6-44CA-BF74-96AD13D72EEE@microsoft.com...
> > > When my PC goes to sleep it always wakes up again after a few seconds -
> > > any
> > > ideas why this might be?
> >
> >

Ive turned off the mouse and keyboard so that they shouldnt wake vista
either, but my vista still goes to sleep then immediately wakes up again.

Any thing else I should be trying?

"MC" <MC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4B46F22E-E0D6-44CA-BF74-96AD13D72EEE@microsoft.com...
> When my PC goes to sleep it always wakes up again after a few seconds -
> any
> ideas why this might be?

"Lakesidezx" wrote:

> Ive turned off the mouse and keyboard so that they shouldnt wake vista
> either, but my vista still goes to sleep then immediately wakes up again.
>
> Any thing else I should be trying?

In addition to setting my mouse to not wake the PC I also had to set my
network controller to not wake the PC. Now she sleeps like a baby.