Standby won't work

[Dave Niemeyer]

After the latest greatest updates from MS update site, my win2kpro NTFS
machine won't go to sleep, it won't go to standby. It will work if I set it
to go to standby in 1 minute, which is of course not a good setting, but if
I set it to go to standby in 1 hour or more, it simply won't go to standby.
I have no weird software running, it runs the standard windows screen saver,
no other screen savers added, haven't added anything except about 4 or 5
critical updates from MS about 1 month ago. Currently it's at SP4, see
below.

Dave Niemeyer
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System Information report written at: 06/23/2004 09:16:26 AM
[System Summary]

Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Build 2195
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name
System Manufacturer INTEL_
System Model D845EBG2
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~2266 Mhz
BIOS Version BIOS Date: 04/22/02 18:47:47 Ver: 08.00.00
Windows Directory C:\WINNT
System Directory C:\WINNT\system32
Boot Device \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1
Locale United States
User Name
Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 523,056 KB
Available Physical Memory 298,492 KB
Total Virtual Memory 1,796,676 KB
Available Virtual Memory 1,295,788 KB
Page File Space 1,273,620 KB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

 

[Jean-Paul Aias]

Hi,

This is likely caused by MS04-011, KB835732. Uninstalling this security
patch will re-enable Standby on intervals > 5-10 minutes.

Seems to be a problem in MS04-011 although this is not yet confirmed by MS.

Jean^Paul

 

[Dave Niemeyer]

Thanks. That did the trick for both computers. I'm wondering if they have
a revised edition of that security patch (MS04-011, KB835732) that won't
cause problems.

Dave