Vista machine won't stay in standby

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Bascom King

My wife's desktop machine is a HP a1730n running Vista Home Premium. After
putting it in standby, after a short while, it comes back up to operation.
Most of the time it does this but sometimes, it will go all night staying in
standby. I asked this group about this and got the advice to go to advanced
settings in Power Options and change the multimedia setting "when showing
multimedia" to "allow the computer to sleep". This seemed to fix it for a
short while and then it reverted back to not staying in standby. I am
looking for some more advanced wisdom on this problem and hope for a
solution!

Thanks in advance.
Bascom King
 
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Bob

Did you apply all of the following?

Go to Advance Power Settings.

Set hard drive to turn off a minute or 2 before sleep.

Set Hybrid and Hibernate modes to "Never"

Under USB settings select "Disable"

Under Multimedia select "Allow ....."
 
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CJM

IIRC, this is a recognised problem - and it may have been addressed in SP1.
I certainly know that problems where a machine wouldn't come out of sleep is
an issue.

I could be due to your mouse of keyboard or some other peripheral - some of
these periodically send signals back to the PC regardless of any activity -
enough to convince windows that the machine is back in use. Not really sure
you can do about this though, short of changing hardware.
 
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Bob

When following up to a previous post, you don't need to include everything.
Snip out what's not relevant. But do include what is relevant.
 
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CJM

Bob said:
When following up to a previous post, you don't need to include
everything. Snip out what's not relevant. But do include what is relevant.

When following up to a previous post, please do not top-post, since it is
contrary to the normal flow of reading.

People in glass houses.....
 
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Bascom King

Hello Brink! Thank you for the most informative URL below. This is by far
the most comprehensive information on various
Vista sleep problems I have seen. It looks like I may have already solved
the problem from what I learned.

Thanks again,
Bascom King
 
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CJM

Bob said:
Actually top-posting is the norm for MS newsgroups.

Inline or bottom-posted comments are recommended across the whole of USENET.

Just because these are MS newsgroups doesn't mean you need to adopt MS's
attitude towards international consensus.
 
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Bob

It's is not "MS's attitude". The MS newsgroups are not run by MS. They are
unmoderated public newsgroups.

I am not going to debate the issue with you. Post anyway you like. I will
continue to top-post.
 

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