Laptop coming out of standby - no display

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Date: 03/06/04 

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 09:29:43 -0700

Have any laptop owners seen this problem?

If I put my laptop (Gateway 505x) in standby by either shutting the lid
or hitting "FN F2", I can't ever get the display to come back without
rebooting. The hard disk comes back because if I launch my email for
example, I can hear the wave file telling me I have a meeting.

I can just shut the lid, and reopen it 2 seconds later and the display
will not come back. My Power Scheme is set to Portable/Laptop, the
monitor shuts off after 5 minutes on battery, the hard disk shuts off
after 10 minutes on battery.

BTW, I should of mentioned that if I let the laptop go into standby via
timeouts (IOW, the display and hard disk shut down due to inactivity for
a specified period of time), I am able to get the display back.

I just can't get it back if I manually put the thing in standby. Weird.
Gateway chat session ended with them telling me it is a Windows Files
problem and to repair Windows by doing what amounts to a reinstall of
the OS. I'm running XP Pro.

Thanks for the help.

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