Standby

When I put my pc in standy mode, the os works properly and goes into standby,
and the monitor will turn off like it is supposed to do. However, my fans
will still run, which is something I have not seen with other pc's that I
have worked with. Both fans are going direclty to the board, is it some
setting in my BIOS maybe? Just wanted to know if this was supposed to be
happening. Thanks.

"Caddyman" wrote in message
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When I put my pc in standy mode, the os works properly and goes into
standby,
and the monitor will turn off like it is supposed to do. However, my fans
will still run, which is something I have not seen with other pc's that I
have worked with. Both fans are going direclty to the board, is it some
setting in my BIOS maybe? Just wanted to know if this was supposed to be
happening. Thanks.

Check to make sure that standby is set for S3 and not S1 in the BIOS setup.
My Dell 9100 came with S1 by default and the fans stay on because the power
reduction is almost zero in that state. After switching to S3, the fans
went off and the power consumption dropped to 2W.

Peter