Fishy

Tinkerer

Well then, I guess Hibernate goes too. But see, now that means all I can rely on is Sleep. But Sleep is completely inconsistent. It seems absolutely random as to whether my device will wake up or not. So what should I even be doing if I want to put my Laptop to rest? Powering off is not an option. 

And not only does the touchscreen get disabled, so do all my USB devices. Any idea why that might happen?

Thanks for the tip. Here's a laugh though. Using Hibernate can cause the touchscreen to get completely disabled. What a terrible experience. 

Still haven't managed a fix. Set the Laptop to Never Sleep, made only the Power button send the machine to sleep and closing the lid set to hibernate. It still somehow exhibited this behaviour and refused to wake up. Honestly a complete joke. 

Other Acer models also have the problem of the machine just not sleeping right at all? I have tried that yeah, I've toggled so many different options at this point. Fast boot isn't even on right now, hybrid sleep has also been toggled. 

Yeah that's how it is, all configured to do the same thing but simply does not work in practice. Sometimes I've just had the laptop switch off for no apparent reason when trying to enter sleep. I thought I fixed it just now by reinstalling the chipset drivers, but a restart or two later and the problem is back. Really…

Was my post removed? Can't see it anymore. Gist of it being the power/sleep issues have become worse. Tried loads of things, can't find previous VGA Display drivers in case it might be that. Seems like the Laptop doesn't actually enter sleep mode but gets stuck in a state right before sleep which you can't move it from…

Thanks. I did look in device manager, couldn't find a Power Management option for the audio drivers. Luckily though I had a download of the previous drivers still on my machine and after installing them the issue of non working audio is thankfully resolved. I think the installer for the latest drivers might be bugged or…

1) Worked fine when I got the machine, it's since updates that it's stopped working, though I'm not sure which so I guess the cold boot reset is my only option? I'd have thought there'd be another fix. Thanks for the video link though, will follow that to do the reset when I can. 2) Do they all use Dolby Audio? I have a…

Thanks for the response. 1) Surely setting my Laptop to never sleep unless I manually do it isn't really an actual solution? Auto screen turn off/auto sleep are vital features, and they worked fine on the machine before. I can't imagine there's no fix to what's a pretty major issue. 2) Are they all Acer laptops? I've…