AppCrash!net: Can't Sleep

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Can't Sleep - Try this..

Since I loaded Vista, I have not been able to get my laptop to sleep. It worked fine under XP but would immediately come back. The answer that I found is to turn off the Wake On Lan feature of the network card. Apparently, this is now turned on by default. Here are the steps that I followed to get it to work.

Right click on Network and bring up properties OR select Control Panel and then Network and Sharing Center

Select Manage Network Connections

Double-Click on the Ethernet Card to bring up Propertied

Select Properties and OK the permissions

Select Configure

Select Advanced

Select Wake Up Capabilities and then NONE on dropdown list on the right

Select OK and then you should be able to sleep.

This worked for me on my Dell Inspiron 9300. Hopefully it will work for you too.

Labels: appcrash, sleep, Vista

5 Comments:

Dave said...: This worked perfectly. Thanks!; March 27, 2007 12:30 PM
Miika said...: Finally it worked, thanks a lot!; August 8, 2007 9:16 AM
ryan said...: i stumbled onto this post while trying for the Nth time to get my vista ultimate x64 to sleep.

well. it worked. i couldn't be happier. THANKS!; September 22, 2007 11:47 PM
Pranav said...: i have a different cardt (intel) there is not wake up option under advanced; October 19, 2007 8:19 AM
anoop said...: Hey thx dude , I am glad I came across this one .I was on the verge on reinstalling the system.Thx a ton; April 23, 2008 10:50 PM