I have a very odd question about my laptop. I have a Gateway NV53, and every time I put it to sleep or hibernate the laptop it will not boot all the way up. The basic functions like the disc drive and lighting will come on, but nothing else. No screen nothing.

The odd part about my laptop situation is how to get it to boot back up. I have to turn the laptop on, let it charge the battery to a full charge, then unplug the laptop until it drains the battery to the point where the laptop turns off. I then have to plug it in within about 5 minutes of it turning on and power it up. The even stranger thing is, when it boots up, it boots up fine, and runs completely normal.  In many attempts this is the only pattern that turns the laptop on..? Weird right?

I have tried to take out the battery and power it up using only the power cord but it fails to do so. So I have to keep my computer on and running all the time. The only way to save power is to turn the screen off using Fn F8. So it's costly. What can be causing this, and is there a FIX??   

You have a Gateway NV53, but you did not indicate which OS you  have. Is it XP? If so, that makes you laptop very OLD. And how old is the battery?

Power off, standby and boot up issues do happen with laptops. Still, leaving nit on all the time is not a good IDEA. Checknto see if the BIOS has the default power saving options for your computer. ALSO, check your documentation to see if the CMOS battery is an issue in that model. Some laptops do not need a replacement battery for the CMOS. But if yours does, that could explain some odd behavior. Check and see if the date and time are correct.Thank you, I do have windows 7, the laptop is 2 years old, and I will do some investigating on the cmos battery. Any idea how to reset the cmos bios settings, it has been way too long.