Maybe I shouldn't blame Vista for this, maybe it's hardware, but I doubt it.

Two days ago (coincidentally, about the time I installed that Tunebite DRM removal program) My computer stopped waking up from sleep mode. I had it set to turn the monitor off after 20 minutes, and go into sleep mode in an hour. Now, once it goes into sleep mode nothing I do will wake it up and I have to force a hard reboot.

At this time I don't know for certain if it is just not re-animating the monitor (so the problem could happen after just 20 minutes) of if it has to be the full sleep thing. I'm going to test that now, I told it to never sleep and left the monitor setting at 20 minutes. In half an hour I'll know the answer to that one.

Meantime, is this a common problem with a known solution?

tanstaafl.

Edit: Half an hour later, the monitor came back to life with a touch of the mouse. So it looks like my original guess was correct -- it is the sleep mode that causes the problem.