Sleep mode killing periphials

[timholt]

I am new to Win7 and have not come across this before.
Whenever sleep mode is activated I lose most (but not all) of the use of the buttons on the CH products joystick, throttle, rudder pedals, TIR and some keystroke functions on the keyboard.
This requires a restart to get them all working again.
Is there a setting somewhere in Win7 that would be causing this or is it likely to be a hardware malfunction somewhere?
It happens on both flight sims (Rise of Flight and IL2 Cliffs of Dover) so I don't expect it is game related.
Also I have an Antec case that comes with 4 fans that don't shut down in sleep mode.
The obvious solution I guess is not to use sleep mode and just shut the computer down if it is not going to be used again for a while. It used to be that it was better to leave a computer running than starting it up more than once a day. Does this still hold true now with A SSD?

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