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Prescription Meds For Vista Sleep Disorder
Arnold O'Connor writes "NeoSmart Technologies has compiled a list of hotfixes and patches provided by Microsoft for Windows Vista that address a large number of issues related to waking/resuming a Vista PC (both x86 and x64) from sleep or hibernation. Sleep-related disorders have plagued Vista since its release, though they were not present in earlier betas. Most of these fixes are due to be included in Windows Vista SP1 — codenamed Fiji."
I've been using Vista on 3 very different pcs for quite some time now, a desktop, a new laptop and an 18 month old laptop, and I've yet to have any problems with putting any of them into sleep mode and then waking them up again. Now I may have been exceptionally lucky, but I doubt it. Vista FUD is already getting old.
It's a useful abbreviation for x86-64. Get over it.
It's not exactly rocket surgery.
It seems you can enable msahci.sys after you've installed Vista: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976
My Macbook has sleep issues, if you plug the power in or unplug it while the lid is shut, it *sometimes* gets confused about wether the lid is open or shut; when you open the lid, the login prompt comes up and you can log in but you just get stuck at a black screen, to fix it you have to shut the lid until the power light pulsates and then open it and log in again. Its not a big thing, but unlike MS, Apple don't have the excuse of unknown configurations!