[QUOTE=bluehaze;3869309]I'm not going to unhook all my USB it's too much a pia ...
just don't feel like going to all that trouble sorry.

Cheers



No need to unplug anything, I've already done the experiment so I know the results. With nothing attached except my USB mouse and my PS/2 keyboard on a fresh install of Vista, no software installed except for vid card drivers, I get 6.5 seconds very consistently (power button to desktop appearing). This is with every different hard drive I tested which includes 750 HDDs from hitachi and samsung, a 160 GB seagate SATA, and a 160 GB seagate PATA.
What happens after the 6.5 seconds is variable. The two 750 GB cause stuck cursor for about 7-8 seconds, the PATA about 3-4 cseconds, and the 160 SATA seagate 0 seconds, the cursor moves instantly. The obvious conclusion is the HDD has a big impact on sleep mode resume. So now my 'official' s3 resume time is 6.5 seconds cause there's no stuck cursor period, but only with the seagate 160 SATA drive.

Thanks again for taking the trouble to do the videos. three seconds is impossible, that's faster than S1 resume.