No 'Standby' option in Shut Down

[JW]

Hello,

I believe this issue has been touched on in various groups and on the
web, but I still haven't found a solution that has worked for me,
possibly because everyone's system is different.

I'm running Windows 2000 Pro SP4, on a Pentium 233 with 128MB RAM.

The problem is that I don't get the Standby option when I go to
Start->Shut Down (nor is there a Suspend option). However, if I go
into Power Management, I have the ability to enable Hibernate Support,
and that works fine, but there is no mention in there about Standby.

From what I've read, your system must be ACPI-compliant. I'm a bit
unsure about this - in Power Management, on the APM tab, it says my
system supports APM, but in Device Manager my computer is listed as a
Standard PC (as opposed to ACPI).

I've tried Dumppo and modifying my txtsetup.sif file, as well as other
sorts of tricks but nothing has worked.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

 

[boywonder]

Hello,

I believe this issue has been touched on in various groups and on the
web, but I still haven't found a solution that has worked for me,
possibly because everyone's system is different.

I'm running Windows 2000 Pro SP4, on a Pentium 233 with 128MB RAM.

The problem is that I don't get the Standby option when I go to
Start->Shut Down (nor is there a Suspend option). However, if I go
into Power Management, I have the ability to enable Hibernate Support,
and that works fine, but there is no mention in there about Standby.

From what I've read, your system must be ACPI-compliant. I'm a bit
unsure about this - in Power Management, on the APM tab, it says my
system supports APM, but in Device Manager my computer is listed as a
Standard PC (as opposed to ACPI).

I've tried Dumppo and modifying my txtsetup.sif file, as well as other
sorts of tricks but nothing has worked.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Curious, is this a laptop? If so, what brand?

 

[boywonder]

Hello,

I believe this issue has been touched on in various groups and on the
web, but I still haven't found a solution that has worked for me,
possibly because everyone's system is different.

I'm running Windows 2000 Pro SP4, on a Pentium 233 with 128MB RAM.

The problem is that I don't get the Standby option when I go to
Start->Shut Down (nor is there a Suspend option). However, if I go
into Power Management, I have the ability to enable Hibernate Support,
and that works fine, but there is no mention in there about Standby.

From what I've read, your system must be ACPI-compliant. I'm a bit
unsure about this - in Power Management, on the APM tab, it says my
system supports APM, but in Device Manager my computer is listed as a
Standard PC (as opposed to ACPI).

I've tried Dumppo and modifying my txtsetup.sif file, as well as other
sorts of tricks but nothing has worked.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

One more thought: on the advanced tab under power options in control panel:
under "power buttons": you can select "power off" or "standby". Have you
tried "standby"?

 

[JW]

Thanks for the reply.

I actually have a standard desktop PC (Gateway 2000).

In Control Panel, I don't have those options on the Advanced tab, all
I see is a checkbox to 'always show icon in taskbar'. It's like Stand
By doesn't even exist. Strange....

 

[JW]

Thanks for the reply.

I actually have a standard desktop PC (Gateway 2000).

In Control Panel, I don't have those options on the Advanced tab, all
I see is a checkbox to 'always show icon in taskbar'. It's like Stand
By doesn't even exist. Strange....

 

[boywonder]

Thanks for the reply.

I actually have a standard desktop PC (Gateway 2000).

In Control Panel, I don't have those options on the Advanced tab, all
I see is a checkbox to 'always show icon in taskbar'. It's like Stand
By doesn't even exist. Strange....

Your motherboard probably doesn't support standby. 233 mhz boards are from
around 1997-1998. May have something to do with it. I don't use standby on
my 1998 Sony Vaio, 300mhz machine. I had a lot of trouble with it not coming
out of standby, and having to reboot. I found a way in pwr mgt to turn off
drives and monitor w/o going into standby. Standby and hibernate were design
mostly for laptop use anyway to conserve battery charge.

Seems like 233mhz would be pretty slow for W2000.

 

[JW]

My PC does run fairly slow, but Win2K does the job, I think XP would
be pushing it though.

Anyway, I think you're right. What's strange is that the hard drive
shut-off options don't work either. If I tell the system to shut off
the drives after half an hour it won't do it. It used to work though,
but even then it would rarely come out of sleep mode successfully.

Thanks for your help.

 

[boywonder]

My PC does run fairly slow, but Win2K does the job, I think XP would
be pushing it though.

Anyway, I think you're right. What's strange is that the hard drive
shut-off options don't work either. If I tell the system to shut off
the drives after half an hour it won't do it. It used to work though,
but even then it would rarely come out of sleep mode successfully.

Thanks for your help.

MS support has lots of stuff on shutdown problems in the KB. Mostly
shortages in resources, and memory crowding slow or prevent proper
shutdowns. I have problems with shutdown in 2000, and I have dual cpus
[450s], and 768mb of memory! I have this problem when I perform upgrades on
the virus scanner sometimes.