My Acer laptop has a similar problem. I put it to sleep when i take it
somewhere rather than shutting down or hibernating and when i wake it up
(pressing the power button), the screen will sometimes come on, but then go
off but the power indictor shows it's on, I enter the password and it'll
generally wake right back up. I've yet to find a fix for this.


"Dave T." <davey@MyPlace.net> wrote in message
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> When my computer goes to sleep, I can wake it up by pressing a mapped key
> on my keyboard. The problem is that sometimes I have to press the key 5 or
> 6 times before vista will wake up. This also shows up when it is time for
> a scheduled task to take place, such as backup. I scheduled a wake-up in
> task scheduler, but sometimes it fails. Can someone clue me how to
> trouble-shoot this problem?
>
> Dave T.