Won't return from Standby - I give up, need help...

[Rich]

When I select 'Standby' from the Start, Turn off Computer, the screen
goes black within a coupleof seconds, the power light on the computer
box stays on, and it 'looks like' it is in a standby mode.

Now when I try to wake-up, nothing happens. No screen activity, no HD
activity, nothing. There is no response to any keyboard key or any
mouse button. If I press the power button there is no response.

If I press and HOLD the power button for 4 seconds, the computer
powers off. If I then press thepower button again from power-off, the
system boots up normally.

This is not a new problem. In fact I have never achieved standby mode
and recovery back to active.

I am running XP SP2 with all updates. The MB is a MSI 865PE Neo2, the
video card is a 64Mb NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 w/AGP8X. I have a PS2
Keyboard & mouse.

I am confused. I have some BIOS settings and Win XP Pro settings. I
do not understand the relationship of the BIOS settings to the Windows
power settings. Can anyone explain this or point me to a location
that does explain the proper settings?

I have made the following settings in the BIOS:
The ACPI Standby state is set to AUTO. I have also tried a setting of
S1/POS with the same non-successful results.
Power management/APM is enabled.
Monitor Events for resumption of operation are: FDC/LPT/COM ports, Pri
Master IDE, Sec Master IDE.
Wake up events are: USB device, resume on PME# is enabled, Keyboard
power-on function is set to 'any key', mouse power-on function is set
to left-button.

I have looked at MS knowledgebase and also at Kelly's Standby issue
listings but I cannot find a solution. Maybe I am just mising it?

Can any expert point me in the direction that I can solve this issue?

TIA, Rich

 

[D.Currie]

When I select 'Standby' from the Start, Turn off Computer, the screen
goes black within a coupleof seconds, the power light on the computer
box stays on, and it 'looks like' it is in a standby mode.

Now when I try to wake-up, nothing happens. No screen activity, no HD
activity, nothing. There is no response to any keyboard key or any
mouse button. If I press the power button there is no response.

If I press and HOLD the power button for 4 seconds, the computer
powers off. If I then press thepower button again from power-off, the
system boots up normally.

This is not a new problem. In fact I have never achieved standby mode
and recovery back to active.

I am running XP SP2 with all updates. The MB is a MSI 865PE Neo2, the
video card is a 64Mb NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 w/AGP8X. I have a PS2
Keyboard & mouse.

I am confused. I have some BIOS settings and Win XP Pro settings. I
do not understand the relationship of the BIOS settings to the Windows
power settings. Can anyone explain this or point me to a location
that does explain the proper settings?

I have made the following settings in the BIOS:
The ACPI Standby state is set to AUTO. I have also tried a setting of
S1/POS with the same non-successful results.
Power management/APM is enabled.
Monitor Events for resumption of operation are: FDC/LPT/COM ports, Pri
Master IDE, Sec Master IDE.
Wake up events are: USB device, resume on PME# is enabled, Keyboard
power-on function is set to 'any key', mouse power-on function is set
to left-button.

I have looked at MS knowledgebase and also at Kelly's Standby issue
listings but I cannot find a solution. Maybe I am just mising it?

Can any expert point me in the direction that I can solve this issue?

TIA, Rich

Some systems just don't do standby very well, and troubleshooting it can be
tedious, considering it could be any bit of hardware or software that you
have.

If it's really important, you can start off by disabling and/or manually
turning off the various programs and services you have running, one by one,
and then trying stand by and see if it works.

Or, you could see if hibernate works any better. It takes a little longer to
come out of hibernation, but it's faster than a complete bootup, and it
saves everything you have open at the time.

 

[Rich]

Some systems just don't do standby very well, and troubleshooting it can be
tedious, considering it could be any bit of hardware or software that you
have.

If it's really important, you can start off by disabling and/or manually
turning off the various programs and services you have running, one by one,
and then trying stand by and see if it works.

Or, you could see if hibernate works any better. It takes a little longer to
come out of hibernation, but it's faster than a complete bootup, and it
saves everything you have open at the time.

I should have mentioned that hibernate doesn't seem to work either. I
forget exactly what happens when I try the hibernate, but I think that
the result is similiar- the system goes 'off' and won't come back.

The reason I want to be able to standby is that I use my system many
times during the day and I want the energy savings without a boot-up
time inconvience.

Another question: I currently have my windows power options set to
shut down the monitor after 5 minutes and the HDs after 10 minutes.
What additional power savings can I achieve by going into standby? If
there is only a little additional davings, maybe I am wasting my time
and yours.

Rich