I have a new computer that refuses to stay in either hibernation or standby.
It will go in to these modes but turns itself back on after a period of
time, sometimes several hours. What can I do to correct this annoyance??

John Mathisen

John, since it's a new computer I would look in the Bios. There may be a
setting there
that has to be disabled.


"John Mathisen" <rmath@paulbunyan.net> wrote in message
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Comment at the bottom.


"John Mathisen" <rmath@paulbunyan.net> wrote in message
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John, I think this problem of yours is part of deficiency associated with
Windows Me and subsequently Windows XP. When I used Me, Hibernate would
work but not Standby (same difficulty you report). Now with XP it's the
t'other 'way around: I can activate Standby all right, but Hibernate never
"wakes up" properly. I've learned to just live with it.

Ken Bland

In BIOS/Power, have you enabled S3?


"John Mathisen" <rmath@paulbunyan.net> wrote in message
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|I have a new computer that refuses to stay in either hibernation or
standby.
| It will go in to these modes but turns itself back on after a period of
| time, sometimes several hours. What can I do to correct this annoyance??
|
| John Mathisen
|
|

"John Mathisen" <rmath@paulbunyan.net> wrote in message
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See if moving the mouse is what starts the system back up.
If so, turn the mouse upside down before going into your standby, using the
keystroke series Windows - u - Enter. Not sure how you'd get hibernate.

I found by experiment that my system woke on virtually any input, and never
found a way to turn off the mouse. So any little jiggle of the table, or
just random whateverness, would generate enough input to start it up, at
seemingly random times. Even with a scroll wheel this (almost?) never
happens with the mouse turned over.