3rd time's a charm . . .

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Stephen Potts

Hi, this is my third time posting this, and I'm wondering if someone can
help me with these two issues. I know they sound odd and may be hard to
troubleshoot, but I would like to try nonethelees.


I've got two separate questions. Please respond to each one as
necessary, or both if you have answers to them. I'm just going to
group them here to save time. Windows XP Professional SP2 - No viruses, no
spyware.

1) System Standby

My computer only goes into system standby if I force it to by pressing the
sleep button. My power settings are as follows:

Monitor - 20min
Hard Drives - 45min
Standby - 20min.

Note: the monitor will shut off, but the computer will not go into standby.
It did in the past. Any suggestions?

2) Not recognizing CD's

No matter what type of disk I put into either my CD-R drive or my DVD-ROM
drive, Windows will not automatically recognize it. Before, it would run
the
autoplay or ask me what I want to do with the disk, now it does neither. If
I
look at the drive through Explorer, it does not register any disk being in
the drive, however, if I click on the drive, I can see all the files of the
CD and run it that way. Again, this is only recent.

These problems did not happen all at once, rather I have not had time to
troubleshoot them in the past, so I am trying to do so now.

Once again, any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Stephen, did you check in the Bios for any settings that should be
enabled? Rt click on MyComputer>select Properties>
Hardware>Device Manager>Computer>should say Advanced Configuration and
Power Interface.

While in Device Manager go to Dvd/Cdrom Drives and rt click each drive
and select Uninstall. Restart and let XP reinstall
them.
 
Hi, thank you very much for the information.

Problem #1: I went into my BIOS and enable the ENERGY SAVER option; it had
no effect. The problem is the exact same as before. Checked device
manager, it says ACPI Processor, which I assume is the same thing.

Any other suggestions?

Problem #2: Excellent!! Problem solved. Your solution worked completely.

Thanks again,

Stephen
 
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