Sleep Mode Vista Bugs and Problems Discuss Sleep Mode in the Windows Vista forums; Okay, one thing Microsoft are really pushing as standard practice is that you should no longer turn your PC off, well figuratively speaking. They seem to want all users to ...

[Gawain]

Okay, one thing Microsoft are really pushing as standard practice is that you should no longer turn your PC off, well figuratively speaking. They seem to want all users to put their PCs in to sleep mode,which is very similar to Standby/Hibernate - but appears to shut down and save data to RAM faster (they cheat a little by switching your monitor display off first and then the rest a few seconds later).

However, on my beta version clicking on Sleep mode (which is now also the default option when clicking the windows start button) just sets my PC to reboot. Anyone got any info on this, and whether there is a minimum RAM requirement to run this feature? Sadly I've had to rip one of my RAM chips out and send it for replacement and am chugging along on just 512MB (which I'm guessing is the culprit) - Anyone know any facts on this?

For reference Vista is actually performing nicely enough without much lagging on just the single 512MB DIMM chip, so it's not all bad news

[dazzlin]

I'm running on only 512MB and sleep mode is working fine for me, so that may not be the problem. (And yes, my computer is running fine with "only" 512mb)

[crabby]

Lol... when my PC sleeps it never wakes up and no I dont mean the PC shutsdown!!! When I slap it back into action the screen just has a load of different colours on it and freezes!

I have come to the conclusion that if anything doesnt work right now... easiest thing to do is NOT USE IT! Its defeatist but then again it works

crabby

[dazzlin]

LOL, yep, that would work, wouldn't it.