Hibernation & Standby Problems...

[Guest]

Greetings, all.

I can't get my Dell Dimension 8100 (640MB RAM, 1.3 GHz P4) to go into
standby or hibernation mode. When I manually put the computer in standby or
hibernate, it wakes back up in about 5 minutes or so.

I've looked/read the articles in the knowledge base, which mentioned that
there was a problem with SP1 and USB mass storage devices. Well, I've got SP2
and there still is some problem going on!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Chelsea]

Hi Telly,
Sounds as if somthing like wake on modem or wake on network activity is on.
Could also be any USB device you have connected. So you need to go through a
checklist, switching one off at a time until you get Stand by or Hibernate
working properly. I don't suppose you have Adobe Type Manager installed? If
you do I'd expect an on screen error message but you never know!

Chelsea

 

[Richard Urban]

Mostly a bios issue. In the bios are settings for Wake on LAN and Wake on
Modem. Both of these settings should be disabled.

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Regards,

Richard Urban

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Richard...both of the "wake" settings are disabled, but the problem
persists!

I'm at a loss of what to try next!

Telly

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Chelsea; both "wake on modem" and "wake on network" settings are
off. I've also tried checking all the USB devices...still nothing!

The battle continues!

 

[Richard Urban]

Make sure that both the mouse and keyboard are setup in the device manager
to NOT allow them to bring the computer out of standby.

Do you have a cat? Kill it (just kidding). My cat caused me so much grief by
climbing up on the computer desk. You can't begin to imagine the headaches!

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Regards,

Richard Urban

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Kllg]

!

Make sure that both the mouse and keyboard are setup in the device manager
to NOT allow them to bring the computer out of standby.

Do you have a cat? Kill it (just kidding). My cat caused me so much grief
by climbing up on the computer desk. You can't begin to imagine the
headaches!

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

Aha! Hopefully this will do it! The mouse and the keyboard have now been
switched. What puzzles me is the fact that this hasn't been a problem until
recently...but I can't figure out what I've done that could've changed it.
We'll see how this works. Thanks!

No cats here, just an iguana, and she has no desire to use the computer...

 

[Guest]

Richard-

That solved the problem...the standby and hibernate features work just fine
now.

Thanks for your help!

Telly

 

[Richard Urban]

You're welcome! Glad you didn't have to waste a cat (-:

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Regards,

Richard Urban

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Newsr]

!

You're welcome! Glad you didn't have to waste a cat (-:

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Regards,

Richard Urban

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Jim]

If not by mouse or keyboard, then how do you get the computer out of
standby?