1520 does not wake up properly!

I have had a 1520 for a couple days, and I formatted it to get rid of all the junk. I installed its drivers but there is a problem when sleeping/coming back from sleep.
Sometimes when I turn it on while it is sleeping, it starts up but the screen does not turn on! This is more likely if I close the lid right after I tell it to go to sleep.
Another problem is if there is hard drive activity and I tell it to go to sleep, sometimes it gets stuck after it turns the screen black and just stays there. Press the power button does not bring it back.
Does anyone have suggestions? Thanks!

 

I'm reasonably sure that the screen not coming on is a driver issue; I had the same problem on my D830 which went away after a driver update. It's probably the cause of your second issue too, but I'm not as sure.

 

Got the same problem... the USB mouse also sometimes doesn't "reawaken" either. Have tried several things others have suggested to no avail... I just don't let it sleep anymore. I just have it go to the screen saver after a couple of hours. At least that works...

 

I use the power button to put it to sleep. That works for me.

 

Damn, third page already!
How many people is this happening to? This laptop is for my sister and she is driving me nuts complaining about the sleep issue!
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

 

Does anyone have a clue? There is also a different problem where it is unable to shut down sometimes! It just stays on the shut down screen until you force it off.

 

Are you running vista? I heard of an issue in vista where a laptop doesn't properly come out of sleep.

 

Yes I am running vista

 

There have been multiple posts about this, so next time search to see if it has been asked, thank you.

Now from my problems it has been a driver problem, both the drivers on Dells website and the Bioshock drivers from laptopvideo2go.com have worked fine for me for waking up, where as others I have tried do not work.

 

I have the exact problem... My laptop does not wake up properly. I can hear a sound playing, however there is no screen

Did anyone solve this problem?

I updated my video card to the latest from laptopvideo2go website

thanks

 

don;t use the drivers from laptopvideo2go. use the standard ones that came with the installation cd in the box

 

yeah I noticed that. Once I updated, the sleep function doesn't work properly anymore...

Is there a way to fix the problem? I would love to have the latest video driver...

thanks

 

i finally gave those drivers a chance and all they did was give me problems. ill stick with what dell gives

 

For what it's worth :

D630 with NVIDIA 135M on LaptopVideo2Go's 101.43 - perfect sleep operation. System goes to sleep/wakes up right when you press the power button. No delay or hesitation with display going to sleep or coming back on.

Regards,
Paolo

 

hmm...just don't let it go to sleep....it's not like it really needs to, if u really think about it, unless electricity usage is of great concern and costs a lot of money, then i wouldn't even buy a laptop ... lol

 

make sure you dont have it on crt .keep it on lcd.you can change it with the fn key and f8

 

hey, about this crt/lcd button, never ever used it...how do u know it's on crt or lcd?! i pressed fn+crt/lcd, nothing changed....is it used when u have a monitor or a tv connected to ur laptop?!