Hey cooldud09, again thanks for the info and your comments do make sense. I have one issue in that my bios doesn't allow me to disable ACPI but rather it has the following two options
ACPI Suspend Type
Specifies the ACPI sleep state when the system enters suspend.
S1(POS) Enables the system to enterthe ACPI S1 (Power on Suspend) sleep state.
In S1 sleep state, the system appears suspended and stays in a low power mode. The
system can be resumed at any time.
S3(STR) Enables the system to enter the ACPI S3 (Suspend to RAM) sleep state (default).
In S3 sleep state, the system appears to be off and consumes less power than in the S1
state. When signaled by a wake-up device or event, the system resumes to its working
state exactly where it was left off.
Its currently set to default with is S3(STR) - Do you thing the other option will help at all?
Thanks