Originally Posted by MelodyL

Hi all:

This is not about MY computer. This is my landlord's computer.

They were having trouble with their hard drive, so, someone came in, took out their hard drive, and installed a brand new one.

So now they have VISTA.

I was just down in their place, and they asked me "how do you put this in sleep mode?" and I said: "well, I'm not sure about Vista, but there is a button on the keyboard (and sure enough it was the half moon button), so I said "this has got to be it. I pressed the button and nothing happened.
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Am I incorrect? Is this not the way to put a computer using Vista, well isn't this how one puts a computer into sleep mode??

I then did a search (within the help menu of Vista), and I put in "how to put computer in Sleep Mode?" and the options give were quite a few, but the first option was:

1. Why can't I put my computer into sleep mode?, and the answer was "you may not be able to put it into sleep mode unless you go into the BIOS configuration (believe me, I'm not going to do that).

I just wanted to know if I was correct in pressing that little button on their keyboard (the one with the half moon).

The new hard drive might not have the "drivers " for the keyboard actions to work.
You can google the brand name and find the site and look for support/drivers section then find the same keyboard and download the driver for it.
But it isn't necessary to have, if all they want is to put it into sleep mode,, you should be able to set it up to sleep/standby in the control panel settings of the computer.

In Win XP, I think Vista is somewhat similar too but not sure-
Go to Start - Settings - Control panel - Display - Screen saver Tab & click on the Power button.
You can adjust the sleep/standby, hibernate, shutoff disk- monitors etc.
You set these and after a time period of no use it will "go to sleep" on it's own
I just set mine to turn off monitor @20 minutes, turn off disks @ 1 hr & go to standby @ 2 hrs- then when you move the mouse or hit a key it wakes up.


Now another thing. They have no sound. I checked the speaker volume thing, and it was find. We tried to listen to one of my videos on youtube. No sound.

I'm thinking the same problem the new HD doesn't have the drivers on it
same fix go to the brand /site and find the correct drivers- is the whole system Dell?
they should be able to sign up and get any help they need.

Their speakers are plugged in.

I gather the next step (I could not stay because I can't even straighten up because of my arthritis), but I gather that the way to test speakers, is to go to control panel, and seek out where they say speakers, and do a speaker test, right. and then if no sound, just trouble shoot????

Oh what else did I have to ask you?? Oh yeah, when the guy who came to their house removed their hard drive, he said "you have to return this to Dell", (I gather the guy was from Dell).

They have photos on the old hard drive so she wants to bring the old hard drive to a computer store, and have them copy the photos to a cd rom, then she can insert the cd rom into the cd rom drive and put the photos onto the NEW hard drive.

Do pc computer stores do this?? And do you know approx how much they would charge for this??
Certain places will do that, they can recover even more than just photos, if they have any other important info on it.
There is recovery software available too but since the HD is out already they might as well have it done by a pro.
I would call around to local and get prices, maybe dell would do it if under warranty??



Thanks much if you can anwer my sleep mode, the speaker and the old hard drive questions.

Melody