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How to get standby to work?
Name: reb286 Date: July 20, 2003 at 10:27:55 Pacific OS: windows 98SE CPU/Ram: Pentium III/256
Comment:
I have never been able to understand what I need to set to get standby to work consistently. It will work for a couple of days, and then it will stop working.It goes into standby with with no problem, but then it locks up, and will not come out of standby. I have to restart the computer. I Have tried every configuration I can think of, with no success. There must be a simple way to adjust settings so that it works properly -- but I don't know what it is. What would prevent the computer from coming out of it? Can anybody help me with this? I have a new desktop computer and the same thing happens.(?)
Name: ceri sheeran Date: July 20, 2003 at 11:21:05 Pacific
Reply:
Hi, Standby is intended for laptop computers and has never worked well on all desktops. The issues you describe are entirely typical of what happens if you try and run Standby on a desktop computer.
You have power management features within Control Panel for monitor and hard disk(s)
hth
Ceri
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Response Number 2
Name: bill Date: July 20, 2003 at 11:54:01 Pacific
Reply:
Yes! Standby and power management is notoriously unreliable. Consider yourself very lucky if it works.
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