windows Wii Not Stay Asleep

[mcl]

I couple weeks ago I got a dell desktop with Vista after my old systems
mother board died. It's my 1st vista system. I have it set to shut the
monitor off after 20 min and to sleep after 1hr. But it keeps going in and
out of sleep mode for no apparent reason. I have no applications running. I
have the usual suspects in the system tray. I have symantec anti virus. It's
in the bedroon which is a pain. I'm using it with an old and very reliable
19" CRT. (When it dies, I'll get a flat screen). So it clicks as the system
goes in and out of sleep mode. I just give up and shut it down. Generally in
the past I've never done that. I just let my systems run.

 

[AlexB]

Make sure the Internet Connection does not wake up your Vista.


Control panel>>system and management>>Device manager>>Network Adapter>>Place
cursor on the device>>Right click>>Properties>>Power Management>>Allow this
device to wake up computer OFF>>Allow this Computer to turn this device off
to save power: ON.

 

[Alex T. ~MVP Windows Shell/User~]

Are you sure Symantec isnt running a scan or something which is causing the
system to come out of sleep?

 

[mcl]

Thanks, that did the trick.

Make sure the Internet Connection does not wake up your Vista.


Control panel>>system and management>>Device manager>>Network
Adapter>>Place cursor on the device>>Right click>>Properties>>Power
Management>>Allow this device to wake up computer OFF>>Allow this Computer
to turn this device off to save power: ON.

 

[DarkSentinel]

Are you sure Symantec isnt running a scan or something which is causing
the system to come out of sleep?

I've never had Norton/Symantec bring my machine out of sleep, so I don't
think that is the issue. Since the OP said this is an older model, could it
be maybe that the DPMS implementation on the monitor may be a little wonky?
Or perhaps the driver? I know that the generic PNP display driver sometimes
has trouble on some monitors, and usually a specific driver, like the one
for my NEC 1970NX, will solve the problem.

 

[MLD]

In many cases it is network activity that is the reason the computer comes
out of the sleep mode. Try this; Control Panel>Device Manager>Network
Adapters>Select your network card>Properties>Power Management Tab> Look in
the "Wake on LAN" box>Deselect any checked items. This should correct the
almost immediate wake up problem and get it working the way you want it to.
Let us know if it works.
MLD