Troubleshoot Standby problems

[KingsHead]

Is there anyway to log when the system goes into standby(S3) ?

PC is a Asus PC-DL with 2 1.8ghz Xeons, 2GB RAM, ATI 8500AIW videocard,
Hercules GameTheaterXP soundcard, Initio Ultra SCSI Host Adapter (runs a
Sony Tape Drive), 4 SATA drives on the onboard ICH5/FT378 controller
and various other USB & IDE devices. No problems in Device Manager or
errors in the Event viewer.

Thing will go into (S3)Standby like 4 times in a row then hang on
"preparing to standby" the fifth time. Very frustrating. Sorta of like
the PC industry in general, Windows in particular. Otherwise the PC is
like a Ox.

 

[You Know Who ~]

Is your bios set to accept a standby status, and / or do you have any
programs still running in the background?

--
YKW~

"When the fifteen dwarves had dwindled to eight.....
everyone became very suspicious of Hungry."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[KingsHead]

Is your bios set to accept a standby status, and / or do you have any
programs still running in the background?

The BIOS is set correctly to S3. I can not recall what other settings
are set in the BIOS. Stop Grant is one I believe. Would have to reboot &
check. There are of course things running in the system tray. The thing
that is frustrating is I can manually put it in to standby any number of
times but left to its on devices it will hang randomly at the "preparing
to standby" screen. And of course it will eventually hang when manually
put into standby.
Things in the system tray: Ghost v10; belkin bulldogplus service (UPS),
volume icon, Hercules GametheaterXP 7.1; Palm Hotsync; ATI Remote
Wonder; Norton Antivirus Corp Edition v8; USB Safely Remove Hardware.
I am going to try excluding some of these from loading on start with
msconfig I guess & see if that may finger the culprit. PC's have become
mind numbing these days with their weird little incompatabilities.

 

[Paul B]

Is there anyway to log when the system goes into standby(S3) ?

PC is a Asus PC-DL with 2 1.8ghz Xeons, 2GB RAM, ATI 8500AIW videocard,
Hercules GameTheaterXP soundcard, Initio Ultra SCSI Host Adapter (runs a
Sony Tape Drive), 4 SATA drives on the onboard ICH5/FT378 controller
and various other USB & IDE devices. No problems in Device Manager or
errors in the Event viewer.

Thing will go into (S3)Standby like 4 times in a row then hang on
"preparing to standby" the fifth time. Very frustrating. Sorta of like
the PC industry in general, Windows in particular. Otherwise the PC is
like a Ox.

I just developed a Standby problem myself, in XP Home - it hangs
without exception. Best I can figure, updating nVidia drivers
for integrated motherboard functions introduced something that
won't shut down. Unfortunately I've lost the one pathetic restore
point Windows afforded.

I've tried rolling back, uninstalling, reinstalling the drivers.
I've disabled some services and in MSCONFIG I've chosen the spare
boot option. Nothing worked. I've got half a day in this problem
already.

An MVP in another group told me there's not log function that
covers this. That's astonishing. I found some logs in ad.
tools/comp. management/event viewer, but nothing I could make use
of.

Windows needs an internal healer of some kind. It's making this
very simple problem impossible for this layman to analyse.

p.