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Keyboard - Sleep Button
I have a Dell SK-8100 keyboard and need help determining what the "sleep button" located between the 'F12' and 'Print Screen/SysRq' keys does.
Is it based on my power settings or something else? My current power setting are:
Turn off Monitor: 10 minutes
Turn off Hard Disks: 20 minutes
System Standby: Never (this was set to 30 minutes until a few days ago)
Hiberate: Not enabled
I recently installed a
Western Digital 250 GB My Book External HD, which kept failing with a paging operation failure (error #51) which I believe may have been caused by going into System Standby. I have been ok for the past 2 days since I changed the system standby setting.
PETER345
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July 30th, 2006 14:00
Personally, I use standby very frequently and have not had any troubles with it.
Peter
PETER345
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July 31st, 2006 11:00
I don't know what keyboard you have so I don't know what button is between F12 and PrntScrn.
Peter
kupchik
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July 31st, 2006 11:00
Peter345,
Thanks for the response, I do know how to set the power setting and had always used System Standby in additon to shutting off the monitor & HD. I had to stop using Standby due to the problem with my external HD.
The question is was hoping to get an answer for is what the button between the 'F12' & 'Print Screen/SysRq' key does? Will it envoke my current Power Options or is it some other pre-determined function?
Thanks,
Mike
kupchik
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July 31st, 2006 12:00
kupchik
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July 31st, 2006 16:00
I tried using the 'sleep button'. Even though I have the power option set with System Standby = never; it went into standby and I had a problem with my external hard drive showing a paging error. Therefore, there must be a different setting that the 'sleep button' uses. Can anyone help with this issue?
Thanks,
Mike
PETER345
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July 31st, 2006 16:00
Did you try what I suggested? This is my last attempt. Use
CONTROL PANEL/POWER OPTIONS/ADVANCED TAB/When I Press the sleep button on my computer
to change the behavior. The sleep button is independent of the automatic standby settings.
kupchik
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July 31st, 2006 17:00
Yes, I have gone into the Advanced tab that you suggested, but on my Dell 8200 there are only 3 choices:
A box - to "Always show icon on taskbar"
A box - to "Prompt for password when computer resumes from standby"
A dropdown window - to select what happens "when I press the power button on my computer"
There are no choices in this advanced tab to define what the sleep button does.
There is another tab to select "Power Schemes" - which I have already described.
These are the same windows that can be accessed either by your method or by right clicking on the desktop and going to power under the screen saver tab.
What am is missing?
PETER345
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July 31st, 2006 20:00
I suspect your keyboard does not have a standard sleep button recognized by Windows XP. There might be some software running for your keyboard that handles the functions of that button and any other "extra" buttons. Look around to see if you can find anything that looks like it would help configure your keyboard.
Peter