windows xp pro won't wake

[Howard]

I recently reformated my hard drive on a Dell 8200 (lot's of memory, etc)
and reinstalled xp pro. For a few weeks I could put it in sleep mode and
wake it up with a keystroke or mouse movement, but it no longer is wakeable.
If I put it into sleep mode, the only way to wake it is to hard reboot. What
might cause this and is there any fix?

 

[Logan]

then stop using that sleep stuff...just turn it on/off...

 

[Guest]

Logan that was dumb answer.......
Try this after doing some updates my bios settings
changed and i went into bios and changed the wake on
keystroke in my bios again.... try that hope that helps

 

[Alex Nichol]

I recently reformated my hard drive on a Dell 8200 (lot's of memory, etc)
and reinstalled xp pro. For a few weeks I could put it in sleep mode and
wake it up with a keystroke or mouse movement, but it no longer is wakeable.

Check its BIOS setup; there may be some setting there that needs to be
on for the keyboard or mouse to be noticed

 

[Howard]

tried that. there was something I enabled: remote wakeup. I wasn't sure what
it was, but it did not fix the problem. As I say, it had been working for a
while.
Thanks.
Howie