No display (monitor) after resuming from Standby

[Ryan]

Hi,
I have seen a lot of info about not being able to go into or out of
standby, but I think this is a different issue. I am runnining a compaq
1687 laptop with winXp. I have updated all the patches and security
updates. Also I have updated the video card driver to the latest version
that I can find.
-First of all I can use hibernate. I works just like it is supposed to.
-Second I can go into standby just fine. But I cannot wake up the lcd
monitor. Everything else seems to work. I say this because the keyboard
works (num-lock, caps-lock).
One time after waking the unit from standby I could not see anything but
I did the following with the keyboard Start->Shutdown->Hibernate. Then afer
waking it from hibernate I could see my screen again including the documents
that I had left open.
thanks for any suggestions.
Ryan

 

[Sharon F]

Hi,
I have seen a lot of info about not being able to go into or out of
standby, but I think this is a different issue. I am runnining a compaq
1687 laptop with winXp. I have updated all the patches and security
updates. Also I have updated the video card driver to the latest version
that I can find.
-First of all I can use hibernate. I works just like it is supposed to.
-Second I can go into standby just fine. But I cannot wake up the lcd
monitor. Everything else seems to work. I say this because the keyboard
works (num-lock, caps-lock).
One time after waking the unit from standby I could not see anything but
I did the following with the keyboard Start->Shutdown->Hibernate. Then afer
waking it from hibernate I could see my screen again including the documents
that I had left open.
thanks for any suggestions.
Ryan

On my old Compaq laptop, pressing the space bar was required to return from
standby. There was a *very* small mention of this in the user's manual - I
almost missed it when glancing through the book. Perhaps your model does
something similar?

Also, drivers or software can cause a failure to resume from standby. Not
much you can do about drivers except wait for a version to be released that
works or revert to an older version that worked in the past.

For software, experiment with different mixes of programs. May want to try
using MSCONFIG to disable all unnecessary background programs. Test to see
if standby behaves any better. If no luck, extend your testing to include
programs that are manually launched as needed and usually left running
during standby.