The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Standby issue?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Trunk_z, Jun 13, 2010.

  1. Trunk_z

    Trunk_z Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    5
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hi guys,

    Was just wondering how long your M11x takes to come out of standby.

    Mine takes well over a minute. Considering my old laptop (and every other laptop I have ever seen) is near instant, I think there is something amiss.

    I have it set to hybrid sleep (paranoid battery will die and I'll lose everything), but not set to hibernate after so long... so am pretty sure it's not resuming from hibernate - besides, there isn't the: resuming from hibernation screen.

    I can hear the laptop on, but the screen stays off. I have AlienSense so I can use facial recognition, and I notice that the webcam LED also stays off until the screen comes on.

    Anyone have any suggestions as to what I could do to improve this? I'd love to avoid a wipe? I have grown tired of wiping Windows over the years

    Thanks a lot,
    Chris
     
    Trunk_z, Jun 13, 2010
    #1
  2. Neil McRae

    Neil McRae Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    57
    Messages:
    428
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    31
    mine is almost instant.
     
    Neil McRae, Jun 13, 2010
    #2
  3. HEUR

    HEUR Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    9
    Messages:
    237
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    mine too. Call Dell??
     
    HEUR, Jun 13, 2010
    #3
  4. misterb

    misterb Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    48
    Messages:
    348
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    instant here
     
    misterb, Jun 13, 2010
    #4
  5. Trunk_z

    Trunk_z Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    5
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Bah. I was hoping everyone else's was slow...

    I'm quite disaffected from customer support for computers. If anything is wrong, then they just say use the restore disk.
    Is this the case with Dell? Or are the actually helpful?
     
    Trunk_z, Jun 14, 2010
    #5
  6. misterb

    misterb Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    48
    Messages:
    348
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    very helpful in my case (hinge issue)
     
    misterb, Jun 14, 2010
    #6
  7. freeman

    freeman Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    126
    Messages:
    741
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I wouldn't hold too much grudge against Dell on the issue. I mean LV1 tech support is pretty much the same on most places, most of them are just script-reader. He/she maybe just goes by the book.
     
    freeman, Jun 14, 2010
    #7
  8. Trunk_z

    Trunk_z Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    5
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I suspect they are just script readers like you say. I just got annoyed last time with my Samsung, power supply went and I had to send back the entire laptop, and they formatted the drive for me. I wasn't the happiest person ever. I hope Dell are better =]

    I think I've solved it though.
    I believe this to be a Window7 issue, and not just an M11x one. I disabled hybrid sleep and it seems to have fixed the issue. I did like hybrid sleep, as it was meant to provide the redundancy of hibernate, but the speed of standby. I think what was happening (from what I could hear from the HDD) was that my M11x was resuming from the HDD rather than the RAM - even though the laptop was set to not hibernate after a set period of time. I checked the settings against my desktop (which work fine there), and they did match.

    Ah well, it's more of an annoyance than an issue. I will wipe and start over one day, which I'm sure will fix it.

    Thanks for the support guys!
    Chris
     
    Trunk_z, Jun 16, 2010
    #8