I recently posted about losing my wireless router settings on my computer and having to use system restore in order to get connected. I now realize that this always happens when I have left the computer in sleep mode. My local techie thinks that the sleep mode is creating the problem as he says XP has had a lot of problems with sleep mode even have lost drivers. So now I am not using sleep mode and will see if the problem reoccurs. Are problems common with sleep mode being used in XP operating systems? Does this sound like the likely cause of my wireless router settings being corrupted? Thanks Teabag

He's right - XP and W2000 don't like sleep mode if a network is active, and as far as the O/S is concerned, this is so even if you're just running a broadband modem, NIC or router for your internet connection. The network drivers have to run in "real time" and the O/S is likely to crash if the system enters sleep mode.

No problem this end. Mine goes in and out of sleep mode as easy as I do. The problem is more likely to be the hardware that is not compliant. That bit about network drivers running in real time is meaningless - nothing on a Windows computer can run in real time, not even the real time clock runs in real time. Anything that arrives for the computer while it is asleep will just be discarded, unless you have a NIC that is Wake on LAN compliant, in which case it will wake up - and it works. Stuart

Stuart, I am not sure what you mean by hardware problem. My computer or the router? Router works just fine with old computer directly connected and works just fine when I don't use sleep mode with this one. This doesn't occur every time I use sleep mode just occassionaly. Windows will not repair it even when I instruct it to. My techie wanted me to bring my computer in when he heard the only solution was system restore. Then when I told him I had used sleep mode each time it happened he said forget it. That sleep mode was notorious for conflicts with XP. I don't have to use it so I won't but I felt it was a nice feature. There are no other problems in any area at all. Thanks Teabag

You wireless interface card could be the problem. it could be the drives or it could even be the motheboard chipset and chipset drivers. It definatley isn't the router as there is no direct connection between the router and the computer. Read this article from Microsoft. It might give you a clue. http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prmc_str_vzeb.asp Stuart