Laptop screen goes blank upon recovery from Sleep Mode civ2ru 11/17/2008 3:44:00 AM First off, it's a SONY VAIO VGN-FZ180E and I'm running Vista 32-bit. In the last couple of months, I've started encountering an error - the screen goes blank upon recovery from Sleep Mode. Don't remember exactly when it started, and couldn't use System Recovery to roll back that far anyway. The only workaround I've found is either restarting or closing/re-opening the lid. The "Turn off monitor" in "Power Options" is set to "Never", by the way. And my nVIDIA graphics card driver and ACPI driver seem to be current. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thank you so much!

Re: Laptop screen goes blank upon recovery from Sleep Mode "D Lirious" <fac_187[ at ]hotmail.com> 11/27/2008 9:11:37 PM Sleep mode is not very reliable in Vista and use on laptops is dubious at best compared to shut down/reboot. As you can see Vista restore points are not reliably created either despite all the disc thrashing when your machine is idle; you need to periodically shut down and pray there will be an intact system restore point when you really need it.

Re: Laptop screen goes blank upon recovery from Sleep Mode civ2ru 11/28/2008 4:01:02 PM Thank you very much for your input! I have found that the problem doesn't occur if I put my computer to sleep through the power button rather than closing the lid. Have no clue why. "D Lirious" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Sleep mode is not very reliable in Vista and use on laptops is dubious at > best compared to shut down/reboot. > As you can see Vista restore points are not reliably created either despite > all the disc thrashing when your machine is idle; you need to periodically > shut down and pray there will be an intact system restore point when you > really need it. >