laptop goes into standby often!

[Guest]

This is a ew annoyance lasting 2 weeks-- my Dell insp. laptop with XP sp2
Media Center, keeps going to standby mode- without prompt. I reset the power
to defaults and kept tweaking it, but it seems to be getting worse. It
doesn't happen while I am working, but sometimes after I eopen the cover to
continue what I was doing, then it does it. Sometimes the screen darkens
only, sometimes it just goes to standby. I had set it to "Never" but that
didn't help-- it almost seems like a Worm is doing this? But my av is up to
date. Help!

 

[Malke]

This is a ew annoyance lasting 2 weeks-- my Dell insp. laptop with XP
sp2 Media Center, keeps going to standby mode- without prompt. I reset
the power to defaults and kept tweaking it, but it seems to be getting
worse. It doesn't happen while I am working, but sometimes after I
eopen the cover to continue what I was doing, then it does it.
Sometimes the screen darkens only, sometimes it just goes to standby.
I had set it to "Never" but that didn't help-- it almost seems like a
Worm is doing this? But my av is up to date. Help!

Call Dell tech support. It sounds like hardware failure. Perhaps the
charger board (part of the motherboard) is dying.

Malke

 

[Roberto]

Have you tried Dell's *tech support* in India, this could be a
hardware problem

rgds
Roberto

 

[NoStop]

This is a ew annoyance lasting 2 weeks-- my Dell insp. laptop with XP sp2
Media Center, keeps going to standby mode- without prompt. I reset the
power to defaults and kept tweaking it, but it seems to be getting worse.
It doesn't happen while I am working, but sometimes after I eopen the
cover to continue what I was doing, then it does it. Sometimes the screen
darkens only, sometimes it just goes to standby. I had set it to "Never"
but that didn't help-- it almost seems like a Worm is doing this? But my
av is up to date. Help!

Possibly there is a BIOS setting causing this? Turn off all power management
in the BIOS if that's possible.


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