sleep

-----Original Message-----
I recently installed Windows XP Home and now the sleep
button on my Gateway keyboard doesn't work. Also, when I
go to 'turn off computer', the standby icon is not
active.
Is there a way to put my computer into sleep?
.
Click the "start" button once. Then press the UP arrow
(at bottom right of keyboard) once. Then press
the "Enter" button once. And the magic box should appear
on your screen giving you the choices you seek. (You
evidently want "standby", but "hibernate" is available,
too)

"julian" wrote in message
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-----Original Message-----
I recently installed Windows XP Home and now the sleep
button on my Gateway keyboard doesn't work. Also, when I
go to 'turn off computer', the standby icon is not
active.
Is there a way to put my computer into sleep?
.
Click the "start" button once. Then press the UP arrow
(at bottom right of keyboard) once. Then press
the "Enter" button once. And the magic box should appear
on your screen giving you the choices you seek. (You
evidently want "standby", but "hibernate" is available,
too)

I think you misread the original question. Sharon says that the Standby option
is not selectable and wants to now how to make it selectable. Hibernation is
not even mentioned.

Sharon,
The first place I would check is in the Device Manager. Under the heading
Computer, what is the type of computer listed? Does it mention ACPI anywhere in
the description or simply a "Standard PC"? If it is the latter, then I don't
think XP will be able to offer you the ability to do standby (or hibernation as
the previous responder mentions).

The problem most likely stems from the fact that during the XP installation, it
did not detect that your motherboard supported ACPI so it automatically chose
the Standard PC HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer). Your choice at this point is
to maybe try and do another installation and this time manually selecting the
ACPI HAL (I think you have to press F5 to get to the screen to do this). As an
alternative, I believe I recall reading somewhere that you can manually copy the
ACPI HAL to the correct location (from the Recovery Console) and once the system
restarts, it should restore the functionality you are now missing.

You might try and search the MSKB to see if you can find more details about this
(especially for any pitfalls associated from changed HAL's w/o a proper install)
as there are several HAL files (for instances: halacpi.dll, halaacpi.dll,
halmacpi.dll and halmacpi.dll) and each one is designed for a certain type of
board arrangement. My mobo uses the "ACPI Uniprocessor PC" hal which would mean
that XP thinks my board is a dual-cpu board but with only one cpu installed (it
really is only a single cpu board though). Ultimately, whichever HAL is needed
for your system, it will be copied to the %WinDir%\system32 folder and renamed
hal.dll.

Paul

I am not sure if this will help solve your problem but we have a small utility
program that attempts to force a PC to sleep or hibernate.

Details are here,
http://www.passmark.com/products/sleeper.htm

Regards
David



"Sharon" wrote in message
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I recently installed Windows XP Home and now the sleep
button on my Gateway keyboard doesn't work. Also, when I
go to 'turn off computer', the standby icon is not active.
Is there a way to put my computer into sleep?