Standby on idle not working

[Philip Lafornara]

I'm having a problem with a Dell Dimension XPS Gen4. This machine refuses
to go into standby on idle. It will standby just fine if I force it through
a power button press or through the normal UI, but despite my best efforts
I'm unable to get it to standby while not being used. The screen saver and
monitor off stuff works fine.

I'm assuming that Dell put something on here that's causing enough CPU or
disk activity to keep the machine from powering down, but I've installed
just about everything I can and still no dice. Is there any easy way to
figure out what's keeping this machine out of idle? Maybe a perfmon trick
or something?

 

[Richard Urban]

I will list an experience that I have, even today, with Asus M/B's
(A7N8X-Deluxe rev. 2)

These boards will NOT go into standby unless I go into device manager and
alter the mouse properties so that I disallow the mouse to bring the
computer out of standby. In other words, I have to remove the check from the
box in power management (in the mouse driver) to get the darn M'B's to go to
sleep. I need to do this for both MS mice and Logitech mice.

So, you have to look around a bit. I found my problem (years ago) after
about 4 days of troubleshooting the system. And it was such a simple fix.

--
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!

 

[S.Sengupta]

http://www.rickrogers.org/standby.htm

regards,
ssg MS-MVP

 

[Robert Gething]

I'm having a problem with a Dell Dimension XPS Gen4. This machine refuses
to go into standby on idle. It will standby just fine if I force it through
a power button press or through the normal UI, but despite my best efforts
I'm unable to get it to standby while not being used. The screen saver and
monitor off stuff works fine.

I'm assuming that Dell put something on here that's causing enough CPU or
disk activity to keep the machine from powering down, but I've installed
just about everything I can and still no dice. Is there any easy way to
figure out what's keeping this machine out of idle? Maybe a perfmon trick
or something?

No it happend to my HP omnibook XE3 it sorted itself out somehow. I dont
know.

 

[Pete]

No !

I will list an experience that I have, even today, with Asus M/B's
(A7N8X-Deluxe rev. 2)

These boards will NOT go into standby unless I go into device manager and
alter the mouse properties so that I disallow the mouse to bring the
computer out of standby. In other words, I have to remove the check from
the box in power management (in the mouse driver) to get the darn M'B's to
go to sleep. I need to do this for both MS mice and Logitech mice.

So, you have to look around a bit. I found my problem (years ago) after
about 4 days of troubleshooting the system. And it was such a simple fix.

--
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!