Re: How to avoid standby? - Works now: summary

So, now I have had a chance to test what I wrote below, and now it does
indeed seem to work. So, in the spirit of this group where you're supposed
to pass on what you've learned, here is a summary:

I found that my laptop seemed to ignore the power option settings, no matter
what they were, and would go into standby mode after 20 minutes or so.

Several possible causes were mentioned in the thread, including faulty
communication of battery levels to the software.

One prominent cause is when the computer itself has its own power management
that ends up overriding the WinXP facilities. This happened to my brother on
an IBM laptop. And in fact it happened to me a few years ago on another
laptop. Often you will find such facilities in the "setup" that you get when
booting the computer, usually when pressing F2. (That's the way it was on my
old laptop)

But this time I found no such OEM facility - and so it appears not to have
been the cause.

However, I noticed at one point that system standby was coinciding with the
expiration of the screensaver. So I turned off the screensaver. From then
onwards, power management seems to have functioned correctly - I am now
relatively sure of this.

Of course, the fact that the screensaver would throw the system into standby
makes no sense -- it certainly shouldn't. But it seems to have been the
culprit in my case, and so if you find your power management functions
aren't responding, then you know that after looking for an OEM facility
overriding it you should turn off all screensaver activity as your next
move.

Thanks to all for your responses,

John

"JMF" <jfavaro@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OH9lJb%23sFHA.3236@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Get this: I never did find any separate OEM power options utility, but:
>
> Something occurred to me: at one point I noticed that when the screen
saver
> came on, it seemed to go into standby.
>
> So I turned the screensaver off.
>
> AT THE MOMENT (I'll need a bit of time to verify), the system seems to be
> acting more or less like it's supposed to. For example, when I put
> everything onto "never", it doesn't go into standby by itself any more,
just
> like it's supposed to be.
>
> Then I told the screen to turn off (no screen saver) after 15 minutes. And
> it did. And when I pressed SHIFT (for example) it came on - no standby -
> again, just like it is supposed to.
>
> So MAYBE the screensaver is/was the culprit. Of course, it still doesn't
> really make any sense (I mean, why should the screensaver throw it into
> standby?), but that SEEMS to be what's happening. I'll update again when I
> get more info from my testing. Pretty strange stuff alright, but I'm happy
> to see at least a little progress.
>
> "JMF" <jfavaro@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:OZtnhd9sFHA.3264@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > My brother wrote this to me:
> >
> > "This is usually because there is some other power management utility
> > overriding whatever you're using to make this setting - probably a Sharp
> > utility. This is true for my IBM. IBM has there own power management
> > utility that trumps whatever you try to set using the utility in
> > Windows."
> >
> > And by golly, this is what I had vaguely been remembering: sometimes
it's
> > the computer itself overriding the software. So I'm snooping around to
see
> > if the Sharp laptop has its own power utility that's getting in the way.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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