Optimus V 15" problem going to sleep in Win7 ?

[fancellu]

Sometimes when I tell it to sleep it never actually sleeps, just goes to do so, the nvidia icon goes on, and the power light stays on. Can't get it to wake up either. Have to hold down power button
to shut down hard, so end up losing all of my state.

Anyone else see this?

 

[ubuysa]

A common cause of this is the network adapter waking the computer before it's fully asleep. Open Device Manager, expand the Network Adapters section and right-click on your adapter(s). Click on the Power Management tab and ensure that the "allow this device to wake the computer" box is unchecked.

It might also be worth running a disk check just to make sure nothing is amiss in your filesystem, open a command prompt and enter "chkdsk /f" (without the quotes). You'll get a message saying it can't do this now and do you want to schedule a disk check at the next boot, answer Yes. Reboot and let the disk check run, at the end there will be a message telling you whether any errors were found - if any were found and they were not able to be corrected you should probably backup your user data and reinstall Windows, being sure to format the disk at the start of the install.

You could also run the system file checker to make sure none of your critical Windows files are damaged or corrupted. Open a command prompt again and enter "sfc /scannow" (without the quotes). This will take a while to run as well and at the end it will tell you whether any errors were found. Again if there are any errors that could not be corrected you should consider reinstalling Windows.

See whether any of that helps.

 

[fancellu]

Thanks for the tip. None of the adapters could wake it. chkdsk was fine.

However the sfc said their were some issues and did a repair. So that probably didn't help matters.

Thanks. I'll see how it goes.

 

[ubuysa]

Well if sfc found some errors that might have been your problem, it depends what they were.

It might be that one of your applications is not able to sleep, or is in a state that prevents it sleeping? If you close all running applications will it sleep? You might also try closing or ending any tasks which you know you don't need and then seeing if it will sleep. If it will sleep with all the applications and sundry other stuff closed you can work your way back through them until you find whatever stops it sleeping. Just a thought anyway.