XP Suspend mode different from 2k?

[Dave Niemeyer]

I just installed winxppro on my home machine and first thought it wasn't
going to sleep, or suspend, because the fans still ran and the machine could
be woken up just by hitting the keyboard. It didn't look like the same
machine's behavior when suspend in win2k. (With win2k the fans went off and
I had to hit power button to wake it up out of suspend.). In XP even if I
manually tell it to suspend (Start, Shut Down, Suspend) it still keeps the
fans running and can be woken by just hitting any key on the keyboard.

Then I looked at the CPU time in Task Manager's list of processes and noted
that CPU time doesn't elapse when this XP machine is in "suspend" so I'm
thinking that all I need to do is tell the hardware perhaps in BIOS to turn
off the fan and power more deeply. Does that make sense?

2nd question: When I hit CTRL-ALT-DELETE and choose "task manager" it
hesitates about 10 seconds before showing the task manager. But if I go to
start, run and type in taskmgr it come up immediately. Is some process
keeping the task manager from displaying immediately for some reason when
getting to it via the windows security box?

Dave Niemeyer
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[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Your hardware and drivers are not supporting a deeper sleep state in WinXP,
so it uses the S1 state whereas Win2000 was using S2 or S3. Try updating
drivers to the most recent releases from the manufacturer, and check the
power settings in the system BIOS.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org