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Windows 7 sleep / hibernation issues – Lenovo 460 Laptop – from a Mac user!

This article documents how i fixed the sleep issues on my Lenovo 460 by updating the BIOS and downloading the latest graphics drivers from Nvidia.

So I sold my Macbook in January as I’m waiting for the latest MacBook Air to be released. I have a desktop, an i7 Mac Mini but my laptop is now a Lenovo 460 i5 bugger with a nice little 320m 512Mb graphic card. Ever since I started messing around with Windows 7 I’ve been very impressed with it and it’s a HUGE step up from XP. So Windows 7 is now on a par with OSX Lion but if your have an issue with a windows machine it’s a lot harder to fix that a Mac in my opinion.

In my case my Lenovo was going to sleep I believe but not waking up. I’d close the lid and then when I opened it again the screen was blank and it looked like the computer was awake but I couldn’t do jack shite and was forced to reboot. I must say that this was a new development and it must of happened after some Window 7 update.

In trying to debug the problem I change my power setting but it didn’t seem to help, I actually turned off hibernation thinking this was the issue but to no avail. The next item proved invaluable in tracking down the problem- an article on life hacker that listed a command that outputted an HTML page that debugged your energy settings.

You basically type powercfg -ENERGY

The utility will take a while to generate the report, sometimes more than the 60 seconds it quotes you—but when it finishes you can open up the generated file in your favorite web browser. Once you’ve examined the report, you can figure out if you need to do some tweaking or update a driver. (it will output the html file to the Users/yourusername/ directory I found)

In my case I got some cryptic message about my bios, yes christ BIOS being out of date ! Not messed around with the BIOS in donkeys years. So I went to the Lenovo support site and download the latest 64 bit bios for my little laptop and updated it. Make sure you get the 64 bit version as the 32 bit didn’t’ work. On reboot I noticed that I’d lost my graphic driver for the 320m graphics card, jesus, what a mess so I went to Nvidia and got the latest graphics driver from them NOT from Lenovo.

I can now report that it all seems to work. Yes, yes we all know about the Mac Tax and how every Mac owner is a commie bastard but if this were a Mac I’d of strolled down to my nearest Mac Store and got them to fix it. Actually Macs do have an advantage in that they are build by the same folks who build the OS so this driver bios issue would of never happened. But it just shows you that there is a cost in buying a PC that sometimes is not seen in the lower price tag. Sure, you may be lucky and not have any problems but if I were a regular PC user I’d of been on the phone for hours I’m sure to someone in a far off land. Lenovo actually said on there website that my BIOS was too old and I’d need to send the machine in to them to upgrade!

So in closing I hope I’ve helped out some of my Windows 7 friends. The little boxes we type into and stare at for 12 hours each day are just tools, choose the one that works best for you, you budget and I must say apart from this issue and the almost unusable trackpad on the Lenovo 460 it’s quite a speedily little machine. If I were going to go over to the dark side 🙂 I think I ditch it because of the horrible trackpad but I hear the 470 has a better trackpad and for the price, I think the 460 was $500 on sale it can’t be beat.

SCAM ALERT — Local Records Office – 1550 Larimer St. #302, Denver, CO 80202 – 800 775 9059

Just got some very official looking documentation in the mail from my “Local Records Office” It looked like a bill but to give them credit it did say that this document is not associated with any Gov agency! Nice scammer!

So beware of anything from Local Records Office – 1550 Larimer St. #302, Denver, CO 80202 – 800 775 9059. They just want to charge you for something you can probably get for free from the legit city of county building in your hometown.

Brilliant scam though, I’m thinking of forming a few business, Xcel billing dept, Local Water Board / Office or Boulder Police Office and then mass mailing thousands of phony bills to poor unsuspecting pensioners and the infirm. Great Karma is coming their way!

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IPL Laser hair Removal in Boulder, CO fast & cheaper than Laser

Truly Better skin (formerly Chrysalides)  is a  client and I built a website to spotlight her IPL Laser Hair Removal Boulder based business. IPL stands for Intense Pulsed Light and is the “next” generation of Laser technology (actually does not use a laser as such at all) for removing unwanted hair. IPL can also be used to treat / remove sun damage, veins, age spots and Hyperpigmentation.

So if you’re curious, go check out her Boulder hair removal and IPL – business by clicking the link text to you left. I wish her all the best in her skin care endeavors.

More on IPL from wikipedia:

Intense pulsed light (IPL), is a technology aimed at producing light of high intensity during a very short period of time. It involves specific lamps together with capacitors whose rapid discharge provides the high energy required.
It is a method of hair removal from the body most commonly employed by medical practitioners and estheticians. It involves the use of a specially constructed xenon flash lamp and focusing optics.

IPL hair removal is cheaper and faster than laser hair removal, although the precise effectiveness of IPL compared to Alexandrite and ND:YAG laser epilation is debated by scientists, equipment manufacturers and practitioners. Their results are generally accepted to be roughly equivalent, although it is accepted that IPL sometimes requires more treatments than laser treatments, which counters the argument of IPL being a cheaper treatment option for hair removal. IPL can also be used as a skin treatment in a process known as photorejuvenation.

 

Call 720.205.5888 to schedule an appointment or email at info@trulybetterskin.com