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C and A - 30 Mar 2008 07:21 GMT

I accidentally clicked Sleep instead of Shut Down on my 530 running Vista
Home Premium. The monitor went black and moving the mouse or hitting a key
on the keyboard did not wake it up. I had to do a hard shut down.

What was supposed to happen?

Thanks, CB

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Tom Scales - 30 Mar 2008 12:30 GMT

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> From: C and A [mailto:abredt_at-delete-this@socal.rr.com]
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> Thanks, CB

Quickly pressing and releasing the power button should have woken it up.

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Robert McMillan - 30 Mar 2008 13:17 GMT

>I accidentally clicked Sleep instead of Shut Down on my 530 running Vista
>Home Premium. The monitor went black and moving the mouse or hitting a key
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> Thanks, CB

When you put the computer into sleep on Vista, like when you click shutdown
you need to wait till it has gone to sleep before you can bring it back. On
mine you end up with a little unresponsive time as the computer goes to
sleep, screen is blank but all power lights are on. this takes 10-15sec
usually. After this I can wake up the computer by either moving the mouse,
touching the keyboard, or presing the power button and the computer will
return from sleep in a time that is shorter than a full startup, but nowhere
near as quick as say waking from screensaver.

HTH
Robert

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C and A - 30 Mar 2008 16:49 GMT

Thanks - Maybe I was too hasty.

>>I accidentally clicked Sleep instead of Shut Down on my 530 running Vista
>>Home Premium. The monitor went black and moving the mouse or hitting a key
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> HTH
> Robert

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Journey - 30 Mar 2008 23:41 GMT

>I accidentally clicked Sleep instead of Shut Down on my 530 running Vista
>Home Premium. The monitor went black and moving the mouse or hitting a key
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>Thanks, CB

I see someone else answered how to get out of sleep. Now that you
know about sleep you may find it a better option than shutting down.
Your system resumes faster, and it's less wear and tear on your hard
drive because you dont have to go through a full system startup every
time.

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