ACPI S1 / S3 etc. expert plz :-)

My "other" PC,
(XP Home ed. SP3, Asrock AliveNF6G/VSTA/M/ASR|x2 6000 cpu | 2x1gb OCZ PC2
200mhz 4-4-4-12),

....I chose Standby, and, (unlike putting my "main" PC in standby, where hd's
power down but, psu and fans keep running), after just a couple of seconds
it powered almost right down ! ...much like "hibernate" but, without the
hiberfil.sys progress bar as the RAM snapshot is written to hard disk.
Obviously RAM contents are maintained in this "Standby" state...

It would only awake from that 'Standby' state by a mouse left-click, (which
is fine), but, LAN connection to router would not recover until a reboot.
I checked to make sure that "Allow this device to power off..." is
"un-ticked" for the LAN connection.

Any idea why LAN connection goes to "Limited Connectivity" or fails to
recover after coming back from "Standby," and is there any way to fix that
? ..."disabling" and restarting LAN connection doesn't work - it has to be
rebooted.

It would be nice for my main PC to seemingly power almost right down as well
but, a bit pointless if they both have to be rebooted to get their LAN
connections working again !

Any tips appreciated,

TIA

regards, Richard

Ooops, silly me ...forget that plz,
....all I have to do is "disable" LAN connection, then Standby,
.....then after coming out of Standby, ..start up the LAN connection :-)

....the obvious is walways overloooked, ..(by me at least) !

regards, Richard


"RJK" wrote in message
...
My "other" PC,
(XP Home ed. SP3, Asrock AliveNF6G/VSTA/M/ASR|x2 6000 cpu | 2x1gb OCZ PC2
200mhz 4-4-4-12),

...I chose Standby, and, (unlike putting my "main" PC in standby, where
hd's power down but, psu and fans keep running), after just a couple of
seconds it powered almost right down ! ...much like "hibernate" but,
without the hiberfil.sys progress bar as the RAM snapshot is written to
hard disk. Obviously RAM contents are maintained in this "Standby"
state...

It would only awake from that 'Standby' state by a mouse left-click,
(which is fine), but, LAN connection to router would not recover until a
reboot. I checked to make sure that "Allow this device to power off..."
is "un-ticked" for the LAN connection.

Any idea why LAN connection goes to "Limited Connectivity" or fails to
recover after coming back from "Standby," and is there any way to fix
that ? ..."disabling" and restarting LAN connection doesn't work - it has
to be rebooted.

It would be nice for my main PC to seemingly power almost right down as
well but, a bit pointless if they both have to be rebooted to get their
LAN connections working again !

Any tips appreciated,

TIA

regards, Richard