Shoutbox

I put windows vista to sleep as normal..... (instead of shutting down). I cam back and the orange light was flashing as it normal would do if i put it to sleep. I switched on my pc and did what i u sally do. It had the battery in and a mains power supply.

It just cut out on me. No warning JUST SUDDENLY switched off. Its not the first time its done this...why the hell would it do this...I WILL decide if i want that not vista

WHY IS IT DOING THIS AFTER "SLEEPING". ? 
really ...... off at ....... Microsoft
Thanks in advance...

Might be problems with your memory or power supply.

You could run http://www.memtest86.com/ to test memory, but run it overnight, it takes a long time to test and needs to boot in it's own everioment, so you wont be able to use it for at least a few hours.

Thanks.

I've had the laptop 2 months so i doubt it will be a memory failure?

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Originally posted by john-t
Thanks.

I've had the laptop 2 months so i doubt it will be a memory failure?

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That is dodgy reasoning... It can be defect when you got the laptop...
Vista always has sucked with sleep/hibernate altough sleep should be alot more stable then hibernate...

Find it way quicker to just turn off/on again in Vista. But then I'm not using a laptop.

My laptops boot time is quite fast but ill still use sleep if i get anymore problems all just turn off... you would think windows would at least tell you what the problem was, or do they?

Thanks, everyone!

any dumps?

Just happened again. I left my laptop running on battery and it went into stand-by when there was none left. I switched on and a few minutes later it suddenly cuts.

Why....

Dodgy battery maybe?

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Originally posted by Aardvark
Dodgy battery maybe?

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No, its plugged into the mains as well