"Eisboch" wrote in message
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Thought I might offer this, even though I don't understand it, in case
anyone else has a similar issue.

For over a year now, I have made it a practice to shut down my laptop (HP
Pavilion) to the "sleep" or standby mode. (Not the hibernation mode).
It shuts down the hard drive and video and puts the computer in a low
energy use.

But, whenever I have wanted to awaken it by hitting any key on the
keyboard, it has been very random in terms of how quickly it "wakes up".
Sometimes it will spring back to life almost immediately. More often it
takes anywhere from 15 seconds to over a minute before the display turns
back on. Once in a while it has taken so long that I had doubts it was
ever going to "wake up". I've tried to find a reason that is software
related, unsuccessfully. It's just random.

A couple of weeks ago I took some pictures with my camera and uploaded
them to the computer using a USB flash card reader.
When I was finished, I forgot to unplug the card reader and left it
plugged in.

I have discovered that with the card reader plugged in, the computer
responds immediately after hitting a key to awake from sleep mode. Not
once in the past two weeks has it been sluggish or random like it was for
the past year. Unplug the card reader and it goes back to it's old ways.

I am curious if the reason is due to loading the power supply a bit with
the USB card reader in, or is it a software issue related to the computer
re-recognizing the existence of the card reader as another drive.

Whatever the reason, it works. So, now I just leave it plugged in.

Eisboch

I have no idea from here what is causing your problem.

I do have a suggestion though. Use "hibernate" mode for your laptop. My
SO's laptop was left on 24/7 until it finally started over heating and
shutting itself down. The problem, dust bunnies in the cooling fins for the
CPU. It took me the best part of day to figure out how to open the damn
thing to get at the cooling area.

Had to get to point where I could remove the motherboard which meant the
keyboard, HDD, display, cables and several parts had to be removed.
Probably three dozen or more miniature screws. When I got the motherboard
out, the cooling fins were completely plugged of a couple of years ingesting
the dust bunnies.

If you use hibernate mode the machine completely powers itself time after a
user selected period of time. This minimizes dust ingestion. The recovery
time on our laptop is less than 15 seconds after touching the power button.

HTH.