My laptop will go to sleep BUT when I wake it up I get a backlight and fan, and that is it.
To recover, I must disconnect power, pull the battery, replug all that and cold boot.
It just started this about a week ago. Before that it worked just fine.
A windows update may be responsible as I have...
averatec
backlight
bios
cold boot
driver rollback
energy report
error recovery
fantroubles
hardware problem
laptop
power config
power management
ram
sleep issue
tech support
troubleshooting
video driver
wake up
windows 7
windows update