I previously posted about a work around I have used to get around the Sleep of Death issue on my LS800. Unfortunately the same fix has not worked for for other LS800 users - there must be more variables.
However - as annoying as the sleep of death is it is not dangerous. There is another issue I think is much worse. Vista Insomnia.
I have 4 Vista machines that I have been using for a while. These are:
- The Motion LS800
- An Acer Ferrari 1000
- A Samsung Q1P
- A custom built Media Centre
All of these machines have suffered from insomnia. What I mean by this is I put a Vista PC into sleep mode and some time later it resumes by itself. The reason I think this is worse than the sleep of death is that a Mobile PC coming out of sleep at the wrong time could be dangerous. As an example I was using my LS800 to check some emails and feeds at the airport a while ago. I used right up to the boarding line. As I approached the counter I hit the power button to put the device to sleep - watched it go down because of sleep of death - and then dropped it into my carry-on bag to board the plane. When we reached out cruising altitude I opened my bag to read my synced feeds and the bag was roasting hot. The LS800 was awake again!
Now as bad as that is - it gets worse. What happens to your hardware if you hit both problems? If you put you device to sleep and it wakes itself up - what happens if you hit the sleep of death issue and it does not come all the way our of sleep? Is the OS running? If the OS has not resumed properly can it shut itself down if it gets too hot? The night my LS800 died it was plugged in and lying flat on the desk. The next morning it would not boot. When I opened it up there was evidence of extreme heat damage and both the motherboard and hard drive were toast. I can't prove it but I think the combination of these two Vista issues killed my device. At any rate I have always been careful since to charge the LS800 in it's bumpcase so I can prop it up since then.