wake from sleep?

[Lewis]

Have a fairly new install of W7 and I forgot to set up the energy saver
to never put the machine to sleep, so when I got back to it the machine
was in some sort of deep sleep. I could press the button the CD drive to
open it, but I could not get anything else to do anything. At no point
did the computer start sending video signal out to the projecter and
even though I had numlock lit on the keybaord (and could turn it on and
off by pressing the key) I couldn't get the machine back.

I reset it and went in to tell it to never sleep the computer, but for
future reference, how do you get a win7 machine back from this state
somewhere between sleep and hibernate?

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Have a fairly new install of W7 and I forgot to set up the energy saver
to never put the machine to sleep, so when I got back to it the machine
was in some sort of deep sleep. I could press the button the CD drive to
open it, but I could not get anything else to do anything. At no point
did the computer start sending video signal out to the projecter and
even though I had numlock lit on the keybaord (and could turn it on and
off by pressing the key) I couldn't get the machine back.

I reset it and went in to tell it to never sleep the computer, but for
future reference, how do you get a win7 machine back from this state
somewhere between sleep and hibernate?

Hit your computer ON/OFF button.

 

[Lewis]

Hit your computer ON/OFF button.

Tried that a couple of times before pressing and holding it until it
shutdown.

 

[Char Jackson]

Tried that a couple of times before pressing and holding it until it
shutdown.

You're not alone. I haven't figured it out either, so I disabled the
capability. (I don't want it to sleep since it's a file server that
needs to be on 24x7.)

Googling it, I saw suggestions to press any keyboard key, click any
mouse button, move the mouse, and press and release the power button.
None of those actions had any effect, so I ended up rebooting.

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Tried that a couple of times before pressing and holding it until it
shutdown.

Sorry about that. "Hit" was a poor choice of verb.

 

[Stan Brown]

I reset it and went in to tell it to never sleep the computer, but for
future reference, how do you get a win7 machine back from this state
somewhere between sleep and hibernate?

On my Dell the only thing that seems to work is the power button.
The system then comes up on the login screen and says the computer is
locked, so I enter my password and I'm running again. It's faster
than resuming from hibernation, if I remember right.

 

[Alex Clayton]

On my Dell the only thing that seems to work is the power button.
The system then comes up on the login screen and says the computer is
locked, so I enter my password and I'm running again. It's faster
than resuming from hibernation, if I remember right.

On my Dell studio laptop the power button works and I use sleep all the time
at home. Now on the new desktop from Dell I tried sleep one time for a class
project and I had to force shut down. It would not wake up no matter what I
did. Since I never use it on that machine I never bothered to find out why.
I assume it is some simple setting that is wrong, but did not feel like
taking the time to try to find it.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Sorry about that. "Hit" was a poor choice of verb.

Maybe, but it's pretty common usage, and in the context here, most
people would know what you meant, including Lewis, to judge from his
reply. I might be practicing ESP, but I don't think he took it wrong.

So you are absolved