Call me stupid or woefully clueless. APM problem.

[Guest]

I've got APM enabled on the BIOS and in W2K. Sometimes it works. The
monitor turns off the way it should. Other times, unless I go into
power option properties and change the timeout to any other time, the
monitor will not shut down. For a brief period of time, I was actually
able to turn off the hard disk after a set period of inactivity. Now,
the hard disk never shuts off.

I've disabled just about every program except the firewall and Norton
Anti-virus. I've disabled logging. I've gone into 'Services' and
disabled almost everything.

What am I doing wrong? I work with a bazillion other W2K machines and
this problem only happens to my own home computer. I feel genuinely stupid.

 

[Paul Dietrich]

I've got APM enabled on the BIOS and in W2K. Sometimes it works. The
monitor turns off the way it should. Other times, unless I go into
power option properties and change the timeout to any other time, the
monitor will not shut down. For a brief period of time, I was actually
able to turn off the hard disk after a set period of inactivity. Now,
the hard disk never shuts off.

I've disabled just about every program except the firewall and Norton
Anti-virus. I've disabled logging. I've gone into 'Services' and
disabled almost everything.

What am I doing wrong? I work with a bazillion other W2K machines and
this problem only happens to my own home computer. I feel genuinely
stupid.

This happens to the best of us: )

I would be interested to know what you have in the way of scheduled tasks.
You may as well try to kill your firewall and antivirus. (For your
paranoia, you are welcome to disconnect the machine from the internet, too)

 

[Bob I]

Turn it off in BIOS. It's interferring with the W2K setting.

 

[Guest]

This happens to the best of us: )

I would be interested to know what you have in the way of scheduled tasks.
You may as well try to kill your firewall and antivirus. (For your
paranoia, you are welcome to disconnect the machine from the internet, too)

I killed every single killable (is there such a word?) task in
'Services'. Every last one of them that didn't have 'Stop' greyed out.
I stopped network connections and every single process including
anti-virus & firewall. There are no scheduled tasks; I made sure of
that. There was so little running on the computer, the fan was blowing
cold air out the back of the computer case.

But did the hard disk go to sleep? Noooooo. At least the monitor
turned off properly. Or until the next time I reboot the computer.

What's funny is that the disk did go to sleep for a week or two until I
had to restore my hard disk from a backup.

Now, I'll be the first to admit that in the scheme of things, having a
hard disk not go to sleep is not the first and foremost of most people's
worries. It's just annoying the living daylights out of me because I
can't figure it out.

Any other ideas (besides taking medicines)?