I have a brand new Gateway, only 3 days at home, and had a problem with sleep
mode and had to use the power button to close Windows (not the way to do
things!). Windows did not load properly, since it did not shut down properly,
and a black screen came up with the Safe Mode options, plus a Load Windows
Normally prompt, which I selected --- and it opened OK. This is alarming on
a NEW computer! I think I'll take everyone's advice and disable sleep mode,
but I'd rather not since I use my PC 4 or 5 times a day.

"no10pin" wrote:

>
> I'm having the same issues listed above with a 6-month old Dell
> Inspirion. It doesn't happen every time, but about once a week I have
> to do a hard boot to get the computer to wake up. It got worse this
> morning, because now even a hard boot doesn't get the computer out of
> sleep mode. Anyone have any ideas on this problem?
>
>
> --
> no10pin
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