I have really long waiting times to wait for windows to shut down (greater than 1 minute) and standby or hibernate says "preparing to..." at which point it just freezes for ever. Literally, ever. Only way is to pull the plug.
What can I do? apparently something is causing this....
With my computer, it goes into standby fine, but when it comes out, exactly 1 minute later the computer completely freezes. The only way to come out is to pull the plug on mine too.