Prescription Meds For Vista Sleep Disorder 144
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."
How widespread? (Score:4, Interesting)
Our next generation of software is being tested under Vista and we have a number of dedicated test machines and dual boot development machines of different vintages. None of them have any problems at all with suspend or hibernate.
Just because there is a cure it doesn't mean that the problem affects everybody
They have a codename for Vista's SP1 already (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Problems? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Problems? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Problems? (Score:2, Interesting)
I'm so shocked (Score:2, Interesting)
What's odd is that none of those patches or things mentioned going wrong is what I was dealing with. I was getting the click of death from my hard drives until I rebooted the computer.
I guess I can see this as very unfinished hardware drivers but for something as serious as this, Vista should have never been released in this pitiful state.
Probably not Microsofts fault (Score:5, Interesting)
When Microsoft creates a new version of windows they most likely develop it to follow the ACPI standard. By doing so, the functionality may break on non compliant boxes, and Microsoft will have to go back to add quirks to make it work.
Being the dominant OS vender, Microsoft at usually manage to get full specs to the failing devices, and have a fair chance of compensate for the errors in the hardware and BIOS.
Developers of other less common OSes, such as Linux may not be that lucky. So I really wish Microsoft hadn't bothered to fix this, unless of course they really are the ones that are responsible for this screw up, and left it to the hardware vendors. That way it would be easier for all OS vendors, including Microsoft, in the long run.