laptop standby/sleep deactivates usb and pcmcia

Hello NG,

on my laptop I have a USB printer cable and a PCMCIA Card attached.
When my windows goes into standby or I let it go in sleep mode, after I come
back, the external devices no longer work. I must disconnect and reconnect
all my devices or restart windows totally.
It seems as if windows deactivates the ports, but after come back from
standby/sleep mode, it does not reactivate the ports.
Is there a way (e.g. in preferences) to deny windows to deactivate the
ports?

I tried it on my Dell laptop, but on a Fujitsu-Siemens or IBM laptop, I see
the same problems. So I think it's a windows setting.

Thanks for help,
Guido

On Oct 6, 8:52*am, "Guido Franzke" wrote:
Hello NG,

on my laptop I have a USB printer cable and a PCMCIA Card attached.
When my windows goes into standby or I let it go in sleep mode, after I come
back, the external devices no longer work. I must disconnect and reconnect
all my devices or restart windows totally.
It seems as if windows deactivates the ports, but after come back from
standby/sleep mode, it does not reactivate the ports.
Is there a way (e.g. in preferences) to deny windows to deactivate the
ports?

I tried it on my Dell laptop, but on a Fujitsu-Siemens or IBM laptop, I see
the same problems. So I think it's a windows setting.

Thanks for help,
Guido

You could unplug the devices from your USB/pcmcia ports and fill them
with epoxy. This will prevent you from plugging things into them that
can get deactivated.

Guido Franzke wrote:
Hello NG,

On my laptop I have a USB printer cable and a PCMCIA Card attached.
When Windows goes into standby or I let it go in sleep mode, after I come
back, the external devices no longer work. I must disconnect and reconnect
all my devices or restart Windows totally.
It seems as if Windows deactivates the ports, but after it comes back from
standby/sleep mode, it does not reactivate the ports.
Is there a way (e.g. in preferences) to deny Windows to deactivate the
ports?

I tried it on my Dell laptop, but on a Fujitsu-Siemens or IBM laptop, I see
the same problems. So I think it's a Windows setting.

Thanks for help,
Guido

Open Device Manager, open the properties on the PCMCIA card, click the
Power tab, and deselect "Allow the computer to turn off this device to
save power". I don't know that a PCMCIA card would have a Power tab,
but I know that the USB hubs and Ethernet cards do.

You can do the same thing with USB devices by disabling the power saving
feature of all "USB Root Hub" entries.

--
Joe =o)