Whenever I go on Standby, the Power LED Blinks, but all the devices are still running. This a problem to me because my computer is LOUD and I am trying to minimize power and disturbance with this being soooooooooo loud. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? I have Windows XP Professional and my Motherboard is ASUS P5B-E. Do I have to reinstall my ACPI Drivers or something? Its now pointing to ASUS Multiprocessor PC.

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The ACPI drivers and/or the *.inf files for them are what determines whether your Standby, Shut Down, Hibernate, and sometimes Restart work properly. They are in the main chipset drivers. You probably don't have them loaded.

Whenever you load Windows from a regular Windows CD (or DVD) from scratch, after Setup is finished you must load the drivers for the mboard, particularly the main chipset drivers, in order for Windows to have the proper drivers for and information about your mboard hardware, including it's AGP or PCI-E, ACPI, and hard drive controller support. If you have the CD that came with the mboard, all the necessary drivers are on it. If you load drivers from the web, brand name system builders and mboard makers often do not have the main chipset drivers listed in the downloads for your model - in that case you must go to the maker of the main chipset's web site, get the drivers, and load them.

What's with all these loud Intel cpu systems I've being hearing of lately? I just recently installed an AM2 6000+ boxed set and it has the quietest cpu fan I've ever encountered!

Standby does not turn off the computer. It reduces power consumption but does not turn the CPU off or the power supply.

If it is silence you are after you need hibernate or a complete shutdown.

Stuart

Turning off Indexing service may quiet it down too as this runs when idle.

Bryan

Turning off Indexing service may quiet it down too as this runs when idle - while Windows is suspended in standby mode?

i_Xp/VistaUser

Go into the BIOS and enable S3 sleep mode. You probably have S1 or Auto sleep mode enabled now.

In stand-by condition, only RAM sticks should get power. Other components must power off, e.g. HDD, CPU and fan, DVD-ROM drive. Case fan may work for cooling RAM sticks and of course PSU will work together with its fan to power RAM sticks.

This is what I know of stand-by condition.

Regards

SuatCINI

Any noise is usually coming from a fan that needs to be replaced. Or, even worse, a hard drive that's failing. Forget about trying to find some reduced power setting and just open the case and locate the source.

In standby the CPU is still operating. It goes into a standby state where it continually executes NOP instructions. It also needs to retain the states of its internal registers, particularly the stack pointer, execution counter and cache memory. This requires power.

It needs to do this in order to retain synchronisation with the memory and data bus to be able to carry on from where it left off. Otherwise it would have to start from the beginning when the computer comes out of stand-by as it does when recovering from hibernate.

Stuart

Standby & Hibernate are power saving features designed for mobile devices (i.e., laptops & notebooks). The general recommendation is not to use them on a desktop system. I suggest you disable them & customize your screen saver & power scheme settings instead.

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_...

suatcini: The other compenents don't power off in the S1 sleep state.
Kay Tee Pren Tiss: If you still want to use Standby and/or Hibernate(I like to use them on my desktops), then try S3 mode, as I suggested earlier.

Yeah, it was set to S1, I changed it to S3. Then, after I did just that, I rebooted, went into safe mode and then it worked! BUT, when I type on the keyboard or move the mouse to get out of safe mode, it does NOT trigger the system whatsoever, so I pressed my power button and it turned it off. After that, I had a difficult time trying to turn the computer on since it went into a mode where I cannot turn on the computer AT ALL, which I THOUGHT AT FIRST that the computer broke, when it didn't. Luckily I did not panic yet.

Anyways, is there any way I could fix this problem? Thank You.

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Do you mean that when you press the power button now, the computer doesn't boot up at all ? Are there any beeps ? I'm not sure why you went into safe mode after setting the BIOS to S3 for sleep mode. When you say that it worked, do you mean that the compuetr went into sleep mode with the fans off, etc. ?

The computer goes into the sleep mode, where no fans are running and such, but when i press the power button, then the computer simply just turns off and i have to reboot. When I press my keyboard or move my mouse during the computer sleeping, the computer does not turn on from safe mode.

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So I take it you're not even going to try to figure out where the noise is coming from? I mean, that was the original problem, right? If you just replaced a fan or two all this standby/hibernate/S1/S3 stuff might become irrelevent.

Or maybe you can do what a friend of mine used to do when his car would start making noises--you know, the kind of noises you shouldn't ignore because they might be warnings of imminent problems? He'd just turn his radio up.

Oh well, maybe ignorance really is bliss.

Dear Kay Tee Pren Tiss,

Please read the following MS article for a possible solution to your problem:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841858

Regards

SuatCINI

Further to my post above, please also read the following to help resolve your issue:

http://www.jsifaq.com/SF/Tips/Tip.a...

Please also note that it is your responsibility if you apply what is written in the article and it messes up your PC.

Regards

SuatCINI

Kay Tee Pren Tiss: In addition to reading the posts listed above-I trhink that you meant that your computer does not turn on from sleep mode, not safe mode. That does not mean something is wrong with your computer. If you want the deeper S3 sleep mode, then you might not be able to wake your computer without using the power button.