Stupid windows vista/7 failure to resume problem resolved!!!
For a while now I have not been able to use sleep or hibernate on my Windows Vista and then Windows 7 machine when I upgraded. The behaviour was as follows. 1. Put the machine to sleep 2. Resume the machine, everything seems to start, but the display is black (not signal out of range) I turned off the require password section to see if it was related to this and I could now see my desktop accept it was a zoomed in version of my desktop, zoomed in to the bottom right corner of the screen, but missing the windows bottom bar. Icons and windows that were overlapping that portion of the screen also did not appear. moving the mouse around I found that I could make my mouse cursor appear on the screen. I could right click to obtain the context menu I selected Nvidia control panel and suddenly my desktop was back to normal. After further investigation I found that although everything was fine on boot up. resuming from sleep appeared to enable a 1900*1600 generic pnp driver from dvi socket 2 a