Dell Inspiron 8200 & XPP

[hotshot]

I have a problem with my Dell Inspiron 8200. I have just formatted the
harddrive and reinstalled windows xp pro with the cd provided by Dell,
everythign works great jsut like new, except for when the monitor is
closed and opened up. When that is done, windows freezes and seems
like its taking its time (about 100x slower) to warm up. What coul dbe
the problem and are there any fixes?


Thanks!


hotshot

 

[Cerridwen]

I have a problem with my Dell Inspiron 8200. I have just formatted the
harddrive and reinstalled windows xp pro with the cd provided by Dell,
everythign works great jsut like new, except for when the monitor is
closed and opened up. When that is done, windows freezes and seems
like its taking its time (about 100x slower) to warm up. What coul dbe
the problem and are there any fixes?


Thanks!


hotshot

Not sure what you mean by "when the monitor's closed and opened up"? Do you
mean you're switching it off and back on again?

 

[hotshot]

laptops may be closed and opened - when i say opening/closing the
monitor, i mean moving the lcd so that it is 'closed' and when i
'open' the lcd again, it takes just about forever to warm up. Before
when i closed the lcd, windows would just log me off and i would
relogin when i opened the lcd back.

is that clearer?

thanks!
hotshot

 

[Cerridwen]

laptops may be closed and opened - when i say opening/closing the
monitor, i mean moving the lcd so that it is 'closed' and when i
'open' the lcd again, it takes just about forever to warm up. Before
when i closed the lcd, windows would just log me off and i would
relogin when i opened the lcd back.

is that clearer?

thanks!
hotshot

Sorry, my bad! I read Inspiron as Dimension for some bizarre reason! And
laptops generally have 'screens' not 'monitors' as 'monitor' implies
something separate from the computer.

When you say warm up you mean resume from standby, or to login? This sounds
to me like a hardware, not a software, issue.

 

[Richard]

Open the control panel and go to Power Options - advanced. What is your
power button assignment set for when you close the lid?
You can have "stand by" or "hibernate". Try the other option.

 

[hotshot]

its no problem, actually i am learning new terminology here as we go
along hehe.... the thing is this has never happened before i formated
and reinstalled win xxp - only after the instalations this problem
began occuring... when i say 'warm up' i would think it is from stand
by.
once the screen is closed and reopened, i see the login names, once a
login has been clicked on, the computer takes its time warming up (may
take an hour or so although never timed it)... maybe it is a hardware
issue, and needs some sort of add-in fixing

hotshot