Well after my last post I found out that I have a beta version of the bios for my board... could explain a couple other quirky bios bugs I have. Will update that tonight.
However I have been doing some googling and it looks like there are plenty of people who have the same problem. Some are releated to nvidia driver issues and another person fixed it by removing there creative X-Fi which is not a solution to me. I will live without sleep mode before taking out my X-Fi.