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Vaio FE41Z Vista & sleep when shutting the lid?

PaulYork2004 — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:37:53 GMT

Can anybody tell me how I can set my new laptop to go to sleep AND wake up correctly?

Currently you can shut the lid and something happens as when you open it it's black and you can't get anything to be shown? This is really annoying as I'm moving around and using it with customers - I'm finding I'm having to appologise for the laptop too many times!

Are there also any guides to what services and components can be removed to get some more perfomance out of this as it just appears slow next to my 3 year old compaq!

Thanks for any help - I would love to get this thing working as good as it looks!

Paul

Re: Vaio FE41Z Vista & sleep when shutting the lid?

Thalamus. — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:37:03 GMT

Hi Paul,

Welcome to Club Vaio,

In the power options properties > advanced tab > When I close the lid of my personal computer..

If it set to Standby try changing to Hibernate..

If that does not work check in the same place as above that 'When I press the power button on my computer..' is set to Hibernate, then press the power button..

Once in hibernate mode does pressing the power button again allow your vaio to restart..?

Re: Vaio FE41Z Vista & sleep when shutting the lid?

Blencogo — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:54:17 GMT

Hi Paul,

In Vista you resume from the sleep mode either by pressing the Enter key or by pressing the Power button.

It is usually one or the other so try both (try Enter first!).

If this fails to wake the Vaio up, the Video driver in use may not support Sleep Mode - or there may be a bug in Vista as you are not the first to have mentioned this problem.

If it doesn't work, come back and post again and we will approach Sony about it.

Certainly this and the webcam seem to be common complaints.

EDIT: Sorry, forgot about your other question. If you go to:
Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> Performance Information and Tools -> Adjust Power Settings
you will get options in both the Visual Effects and the Advanced Tabs to customise for best performance or best appearance. Also in the Advanced tab, if you click on Change Advanced Power Settings you can configure what happens when you select Sleep Mode or when you close the Vaio's lid.

EDIT: Evening Thalamus - I don't use Vista so I could be wrong but I don't think there is a hibernation option in Vista - only Sleep.

Re: Vaio FE41Z Vista & sleep when shutting the lid?

Thalamus. — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:26:08 GMT

EDIT: Evening Thalamus - I don't use Vista so I could be wrong but I don't think there is a hibernation option in Vista - only Sleep.

Evening to you too, neither do I, so you could very well be correct....

Re: Vaio FE41Z Vista & sleep when shutting the lid?

PaulYork2004 — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:59:38 GMT

Thanks everyone for the replies!

Using Vista,I've tried a variety of settings within thesection Control Panel > Power options > System Settings. Currently I've every option set to "Do Nothing" but when I close the lid, the screen goes blank and the disk starts running. Re-opening the lid and pressing enter or the poer on button doesn't change anything - the disk light flashes but the screen remains blank. Only a hard power down will resolve it and wake the machine.

The options sleep, hibernate and shut down and do nothing all exist - so far I've tried sleep and do nothing but neither work

Thanks for the help much appreciated!

Paul.

Re: Vaio FE41Z Vista & sleep when shutting the lid?

thevinster — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:15:13 GMT

Thanks everyone for the replies!

Using Vista,I've tried a variety of settings within thesection Control Panel > Power options > System Settings.  Currently I've every option set to "Do Nothing" but when I close the lid, the screen goes blank and the disk starts running.  Re-opening the lid and pressing enter or the poer on button doesn't change anything - the disk light flashes but the screen remains blank.  Only a hard power down will resolve it and wake the machine.

The options sleep, hibernate and shut down and do nothing all exist - so far I've tried sleep and do nothing but neither work   

Thanks for the help much appreciated!  

Paul.

That's weird. My FE41Z has no problems going into standby and coming out of it. When I press the power button, it goes to sleep. When I want to resume, pressing any key starts it up again.

Re: Vaio FE41Z Vista & sleep when shutting the lid?

PaulYork2004 — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:00:13 GMT

Thanks for the re-assurance that others are OK.

Unfortunately it doesn't solve this laptops issues. I wonder if there has been a driver update or bios update that has resulted in his new behaviour? The machine is only 20 days old but the problem has reared it's head too many times so far.

Best Regards,

Paul.

Re: Vaio FE41Z Vista & sleep when shutting the lid?

jackbaps — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:18:02 GMT

Using Vista,I've tried a variety of settings within thesection Control Panel > Power options > System Settings. Currently I've every option set to "Do Nothing" but when I close the lid, the screen goes blank and the disk starts running. Re-opening the lid and pressing enter or the poer on button doesn't change anything - the disk light flashes but the screen remains blank. Only a hard power down will resolve it and wake the machine.

That is exactly what happens with my FE41S! All of the options including:

1. When I press the power button
2. When I press the sleep button
3. When I close the lid

They are all set to "Do Nothing". Yet on closing the lid the screen goes blank but the computer stays on. Then NOTHING will get the screen display on again except holding down the power button to turn it off then startin it up again! Its VERY frustratin!

Thanks guys, jack.

Re: Vaio FE41Z Vista & sleep when shutting the lid?

thevinster — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:45:55 GMT

Using Vista,I've tried a variety of settings within thesection Control Panel > Power options > System Settings. Currently I've every option set to "Do Nothing" but when I close the lid, the screen goes blank and the disk starts running. Re-opening the lid and pressing enter or the poer on button doesn't change anything - the disk light flashes but the screen remains blank. Only a hard power down will resolve it and wake the machine.


That is exactly what happens with my FE41S! All of the options including:

1. When I press the power button
2. When I press the sleep button
3. When I close the lid

They are all set to "Do Nothing". Yet on closing the lid the screen goes blank but the computer stays on. Then NOTHING will get the screen display on again except holding down the power button to turn it off then startin it up again! Its VERY frustratin!

Thanks guys, jack.

Do remember that Vista has a new way of sleeping -- once you press the power button or close the lid, the machine will turn off the monitor initially, and there can be up to 3-5 minutes of activity after that as the system goes into sleep/hibernate mode.

Re: Vaio FE41Z Vista & sleep when shutting the lid?

rds290176 — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:37:01 GMT

My FE41Z has exactly the same problem. With mine I dock the laptop to use at my desk, so I obviously close the lid if I'm using my 2nd monitor. The only way I can get the laptop monitor back on is either to restart the machine or undock it.

Could be a driver issue with the Nvidia drivers. Unless anyone else has the same problem on a different laptop using none nVidia Graphics.

Re: Vaio FE41Z Vista & sleep when shutting the lid?

andywhitehurst — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:19:42 GMT

I've got the same problem on my FE31 running Vista Ultimate.

Using Vista,I've tried a variety of settings within thesection Control Panel > Power options > System Settings. Currently I've every option set to "Do Nothing" but when I close the lid, the screen goes blank and the disk starts running. Re-opening the lid and pressing enter or the poer on button doesn't change anything - the disk light flashes but the screen remains blank. Only a hard power down will resolve it and wake the machine.

That's pretty much word-for-word what I'm experiencing, although as my power button is set to 'sleep' and appears to function fine, I can enter hybrid sleep and back to recover, rather than a full restart.

I've installed all the updates (bar the bios update) from Sony's Vista update page without success. I'm going to try nVidia for some more recent graphics drivers and see if that solves it.

Andrew.

[edit] The release notes for nVidia's 97.46 driver has 'Unable to enter system suspend or standby mode' as a fixed issue with Vista x86. Let's hope this is it...

Re: Vaio FE41Z Vista & sleep when shutting the lid?

Blencogo — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:32:47 GMT

Hi Andrew,

Can you let me know if 97.46 works?

If not I will escalate this problem to Sony.

EDIT: I've just noticed the Vista driver on VAIO SUPPORT is already 97.46 for the FE-Series but I see that 97.54 is available for the AR-Series.

Re: Vaio FE41Z Vista & sleep when shutting the lid?

andywhitehurst — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:11:35 GMT

Hi Andrew,

Can you let me know if 97.46 works?

If not I will escalate this problem to Sony.

EDIT: I've just noticed the Vista driver on VAIO SUPPORT is already 97.46 for the FE-Series but I see that 97.54 is available for the AR-Series.

As it turns out, the driver package from nVidia itself refuses to install on my machine - it tells me setup 'cannot locate any drivers compatible with your current hardware' - so it looks like Sony is our best hope for the moment.

Andrew.

Re: Vaio FE41Z Vista & sleep when shutting the lid?

Blencogo — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:11:00 GMT

I'll escalate it to Sony Support.

Don't hold your breath !!

:smileyshhh:

Re: Vaio FE41Z Vista & sleep when shutting the lid?

andywhitehurst — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:53:35 GMT

I wonder if there has been a driver update or bios update that has resulted in his new behaviour?.

Having installed both the most recent graphics drivers and bios update, I can state that - for my machine at least - the problem still exists...

Re: Vaio FE41Z Vista & sleep when shutting the lid?

narcotik — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:24:04 GMT

Same Problem here with my FE21M AND VISTA!

Has anyone found a solution yet? As it can be very anoying when downloading large files or outputing movies to your tv as i would rather close my lid when doin this.

Re: Vaio FE41Z Vista & sleep when shutting the lid?

rds290176 — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:20:41 GMT

There's a BIOS update available (for the FE41Z anyway) thats suggests it may fix this issue.

http://support.vaio.sony.co.uk/downloads/select/select.asp?site=voe_en_GB_cons

Re: Vaio FE41Z Vista & sleep when shutting the lid?

SARA_G — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:21:15 GMT

HI GUYS...
I M USING THE FE41S AND I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM.... IT IS SOO FRUSTRATING.... THIS IS MY SECOUND VAIO LAPTOP...... THE FIRST ONE WAS XP AND WORKED FINE.. I JSUT BOUGHT THIS LIKE 4 DYAS AGO..A DN ITS JUST STRESSING ME...

PLZZ PLZZ PLZZ HELP.. AND FIND A SOLUTION.... I DONT KNOW MUCH TECHNICAL STUFF.. SO PLZZ HELP

I HAVE CHANGED THE SETTING AS CONTROL PANEL AS "DO NOTHING" wen i press pwer botton or close my lid...
but yet the problem is not gone.. please help..

Re: Vaio FE41Z Vista & sleep when shutting the lid?

Thalamus. — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:29:23 GMT

Hi SARA_G,

Welcome to Club vaio,

Have you installed the FE41Z BIOS update R0200J3

Download and Installation Instructions

1. Download the file "PHBSYS-01101528-UN.exe", and save it to a download directory (e.g. C:\Download).
2. Close all running applications.
3. Click Start - Run - Browse, and browse to the directory where you downloaded the file (e.g. C:\Download\ ).
4. Select the file. Click Open. Then click OK.
5. A window will appear. Click the button Update.
6. Wait while the BIOS is being updated. PLEASE DO NOT INTERRUPT THE PROCESS!
7. When the update is finished, click OK to reboot the computer

How to check the BIOS version

1. Turn on the computer.
2. Press F2 to enter BIOS Setup when Sony Logo appears
3. See "BIOS Version" in main menu.
4. Please verify that the BIOS Version has been correctly updated.
5. Press the F9 key to load default BIOS configuration. Yes is highlighted. Press Enter to confirm.
6. Press the F10 key to save changes and exit. Yes is highlighted. Press Enter to confirm.
7. After this your system will boot again and start up Windows.

Re: Vaio FE41Z Vista & sleep when shutting the lid?

SARA_G — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:37:23 GMT

HI THANK U SOO MUCH.. I HAVE JUST DONE THE BIOS UPDATE..

AND THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED....... I M SOO RELEIVED........ THANK U SOOOOOOOO MUCH