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Windows won't go into standby mode or hibernate after a long period of inactivity.....maybe one fix
Your computer is set to Portable/Laptop, off monitor aft 15 min, off
harddrive aft 20 min and sys standby aft 20 min. It use to go into standby and all you had to do was hit the keyboard, move the mouse or bump the computer and it would wake up...........................then one day it all just stopped. The monitor still goes into standby but that's it..............not he computer. I know this is an old problem. WinXP SP3. I have been hacking around with this for about 3 years and this morning I think I stumbled on to something that might be a help to others. It worked for me and I am smiling again. After many years of use my computer would faithfully go into standby and wakeup with the movement of the mouse or activity on the keyboard, then one day it just quit. Well here is what I found: Using the following string executed in "Run" (%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState) I got the following message, "The device driver for the 'American Power Conversion USB UPS" device is preventing the machine from entering standby. Please close all applications and try again. If the problem persist, you may need to update the driver". I uninstalled the APC Power Chute Personal Edition 3.0.2 and that did not fix the problem, I then went into Device Manager and deleted APC UPS under Batteries and this did not fix the problem as this reference has and requires no drivers. The next thing I did was to delete "American Power Conversion USB UPS under "Human Interface Devices". When I completed the deletion of the American Power Conversation USB UPS under "Human Interface Devices" and ran the string again the computer went into Standby and woke up by mouse or keyboard movement as it had prior to the disruption. I then reinstalled the APC Power Chute Personal Edition 3.0.2 software and the computer still performed as it was supposed to. Apparently the drivers for the "American Power Conversation USB UPS under "Human Interface Devices" must have gotten corrupted up and when I deleted them they were forced to rewrite. This is the first fix for me in this long and aggravating as well as annoying problem. Hope it helps someone else. If you only want it to go into Standby make sure you uncheck Hibernate on the Hibernate tag in device manager. This is a jpg of what my health drivers list looks like for "American Power Conversation USB UPS under "Human Interface Devices" |
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Windows won't go into standby mode or hibernate after a longperiod of inactivity.....maybe one fix
On 14/05/2012 10:49 AM, Docster wrote:
Your computer is set to Portable/Laptop, off monitor aft 15 min, off harddrive aft 20 min and sys standby aft 20 min. It use to go into standby and all you had to do was hit the keyboard, move the mouse or bump the computer and it would wake up...........................then one day it all just stopped. The monitor still goes into standby but that's it..............not he computer. I know this is an old problem. WinXP SP3. I have been hacking around with this for about 3 years and this morning I think I stumbled on to something that might be a help to others. It worked for me and I am smiling again. After many years of use my computer would faithfully go into standby and wakeup with the movement of the mouse or activity on the keyboard, then one day it just quit. Well here is what I found: snip It's a common problem, still exists even under Windows 7 and probably beyond too. Here is a webpage dedicated to trying to solve this problem: http://fivepercent.us/2008/08/15/win...-update-82008/ Yousuf Khan |
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Windows won't go into standby mode or hibernate after a long period of inactivity.....maybe one fix
Yousuf,
Thanks for the link. It looks like I am not alone in this darkness. One might think Microsoft would consider finally fixing this problem.............it would be something worthwhile instead of all the bells and whistles OS upgrades and releases. But, then I suppose that would be the right thing!!! Signed, Frustrated "Yousuf Khan" wrote in message ... On 14/05/2012 10:49 AM, Docster wrote: Your computer is set to Portable/Laptop, off monitor aft 15 min, off harddrive aft 20 min and sys standby aft 20 min. It use to go into standby and all you had to do was hit the keyboard, move the mouse or bump the computer and it would wake up...........................then one day it all just stopped. The monitor still goes into standby but that's it..............not he computer. I know this is an old problem. WinXP SP3. I have been hacking around with this for about 3 years and this morning I think I stumbled on to something that might be a help to others. It worked for me and I am smiling again. After many years of use my computer would faithfully go into standby and wakeup with the movement of the mouse or activity on the keyboard, then one day it just quit. Well here is what I found: snip It's a common problem, still exists even under Windows 7 and probably beyond too. Here is a webpage dedicated to trying to solve this problem: http://fivepercent.us/2008/08/15/win...-update-82008/ Yousuf Khan |
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Windows won't go into standby mode or hibernate after a long period of inactivity.....maybe one fix
I just discovered that out of the three machines I have running WinXP SP3
only one of them is showing a Power Management tab in Device Manager for both my mouse and my keyboard. The Power Management tab offers the option to allow the device it is referencing to either way the computer from Standby or not to awaken it. This is interesting, what happen to the tab on the other two computers? "Docster" wrote in message ... Your computer is set to Portable/Laptop, off monitor aft 15 min, off harddrive aft 20 min and sys standby aft 20 min. It use to go into standby and all you had to do was hit the keyboard, move the mouse or bump the computer and it would wake up...........................then one day it all just stopped. The monitor still goes into standby but that's it..............not he computer. I know this is an old problem. WinXP SP3. I have been hacking around with this for about 3 years and this morning I think I stumbled on to something that might be a help to others. It worked for me and I am smiling again. After many years of use my computer would faithfully go into standby and wakeup with the movement of the mouse or activity on the keyboard, then one day it just quit. Well here is what I found: Using the following string executed in "Run" (%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState) I got the following message, "The device driver for the 'American Power Conversion USB UPS" device is preventing the machine from entering standby. Please close all applications and try again. If the problem persist, you may need to update the driver". I uninstalled the APC Power Chute Personal Edition 3.0.2 and that did not fix the problem, I then went into Device Manager and deleted APC UPS under Batteries and this did not fix the problem as this reference has and requires no drivers. The next thing I did was to delete "American Power Conversion USB UPS under "Human Interface Devices". When I completed the deletion of the American Power Conversation USB UPS under "Human Interface Devices" and ran the string again the computer went into Standby and woke up by mouse or keyboard movement as it had prior to the disruption. I then reinstalled the APC Power Chute Personal Edition 3.0.2 software and the computer still performed as it was supposed to. Apparently the drivers for the "American Power Conversation USB UPS under "Human Interface Devices" must have gotten corrupted up and when I deleted them they were forced to rewrite. This is the first fix for me in this long and aggravating as well as annoying problem. Hope it helps someone else. If you only want it to go into Standby make sure you uncheck Hibernate on the Hibernate tag in device manager. This is a jpg of what my health drivers list looks like for "American Power Conversation USB UPS under "Human Interface Devices" |
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Windows won't go into standby mode or hibernate after a long period of inactivity.....maybe one fix
In message , Docster
writes: I just discovered that out of the three machines I have running WinXP SP3 only one of them is showing a Power Management tab in Device Manager for both my mouse and my keyboard. The Power Management tab offers the option to allow the device it is referencing to either way the computer from Standby or not to awaken it. This is interesting, what happen to the tab on the other two computers? Could it be that that computer has a PS/2 mouse and keyboard, whereas the others have USB ones? (Or vice versa?) Just guessing. [] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) |
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Windows won't go into standby mode or hibernate after a long period of inactivity.....maybe one fix
All three are set up the same PS2 mouse and keyboards.
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... In message , Docster writes: I just discovered that out of the three machines I have running WinXP SP3 only one of them is showing a Power Management tab in Device Manager for both my mouse and my keyboard. The Power Management tab offers the option to allow the device it is referencing to either way the computer from Standby or not to awaken it. This is interesting, what happen to the tab on the other two computers? Could it be that that computer has a PS/2 mouse and keyboard, whereas the others have USB ones? (Or vice versa?) Just guessing. [] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) |
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