HP Laptop will not resume from standby

[SpeedDMN]

I kinda doubt anyone is going to be able to get this one for me, but I thought I would throw it out there. Just recently, My newish HP Pavillion dv9000t laptop will not resume from standby. It goes into standby seemingly normal (i.e. shutting the lid though it makes no difference if I standby from windows) but I get a blank screen after reopening it. The buttons light up, but I hear no HD activity and the wireless lan indicator does not go blue which indicates on and working, so it's more then just the screen not resuming. Funny thing is this just started up. It used to standby and resume fine under Vista using the same media that I am using now from a fresh install. My first suspect was the Nvidia drivers, but I tried rolling back and everything. There is a rather lengthy thread on this over over at the MSDN forums and there were various fixes noted like an ACPI hack, a M$ patch, etc., but none of them worked. HP support told me to format with the XP Home restore disks like that's going to happen so they are useless as I suspected. In fact you might as well call a swami as you would HP support. Newest bios of course and such. I think I covered all the obvious possibilities. Anyway I will take all the suggestions I can get. If someone can solve this one for me I will personally mail you a brand new Qpie doll.

[SRTDodge05]

Have you tried plugging in a mouse or keyboard to see if that fixes the problem? It also could be a corrupt file in the standby system.

[rjs735]

My first thought woulg be what maintenance has been installed on the system since it stopped working. Also what additional harware or software was added to the system or software update. Maybe a BIOS update.All this auto updating you loose control over what being done to the system assuming the harware and software venders know what they are doing all the time,

Coming out of hibernation/standby the system bios needs to be awaken to startup the various pieces of the system to read the hibernation file on the HD.

Sounds like the bios is not being activated. Is there a stanby option in the bios that got turned off by chance.

[SpeedDMN]

Running latest bios (just came out) same thing with old one. I did a not so great temp fix by making it go into hibernation instead of standby which seems to work fine though not as fast a resume of course as S2. Bios setting are very lean as with most lappys and I saw no way to enable/disable S2. I foolishly installed updates before testing it with the new install. I meant to, but then had a momentary laspe of reason. All I can see to do is format again (no biggie nothing on it yet really) and then test it before any updates. If it doesn't work before I install any. I may have to consider the unspeakable and consider it may be a hardware issue. I hope not that would suck. I could care less about standby on my desktop (and it does work naturally where it never did under XP) but the lappy S2 is important.

[rjs735]

Did asearch on no resume from standby. I got a few hits.

Here's one it's on a Lenovo T60 thinkpads.com Support Community :: View topic - Anyone else with a T60 that won't resume from standby?

It talks about interaction between Firfox being open when you go standby.
Also takes shot at maybe hardware. Hope this helps.

I went to the Hp support site and I found this item HP Notebook PCs*-* Power Management for Notebooks*
It says that because of better power management instead of standby it mabe sleep mode and you have to hit the power on key.