Standby Mode Problems

Question

I have a dell dimension L500c running win98 se. i have disabled all power-down features in control panel and would do the same in BIOS if the option were there.

however, my pc will go into standby mode and not wake up without turning off the computer completely and turning it back on.

does anyone know how to fix this?

reply or email: josh.horner@verizon.net

LakersWinAgain · Answer

did it work in the past? sometimes failure to go into or out of standby is caused by a device such as a keyboard and/or mouse sending signals to the system when in fact they are idle. what kind of keyboard? does it read silitek on the bottom? there is a patch if so. if not you can put the box into standby mode manually (through the windows shutdown screen) and out of standby by hitting the power button which should flash when the box is in standby mode.

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Message Edited on 02/09/02 10:54PM by LakersWinAgain

Denny Denham · Answer

jdhorner,

Standby eventually fails on desktop systems. Yours did. Set your monitor and hard disk to power down after a period of inactivity if you desire, but don't use standby.

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jdhorner · Answer

thanks for the suggestions, but i don't think i made myself clear. i don't have anything set to go into standby, powerdown, energy save, whatever you want to call it. Everything is set to stay on, all the time. I need it to be that way. But no matter what i try, it goes into standby sometimes by itself, and a reboot is the only option.

how do i turn off all standby/powersave/etc... features FOR GOOD?

thanks for your help, everyone.

Goonboy · Answer

Are you certain it's not some energy saving feature of your monitor that works independently from the Power Management utility? If that's not a factor, I think I'd try resetting the default system configuration data in Setup, and see if that resolves the issue.

http://docs.us.dell.com/docs/systems/dcol/syssetup.htm

jdhorner · Answer

No, I know it has nothing to do with my monitor, or BIOS settings. The only things I can see that are relevant in BIOS are the Wake on LAN and such events. But the things is: I don't want it to sleep in the first place. :-)

Any suggs anyone???

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