Re: WinXP SP2: Laptop's Power Settings Hosed

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From: Kamster (Kamster_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 13:41:01 -0700

Malke,

Your advice is sound and reasonable; however, the folks at Averatec are
USELESS when it comes to answering any and all questions related to WinXP
SP2. The one fellow I talked to who was a bit more informed said they were
just in the process of evaluating the after-effects of the patch.

Uninstalling WinXPSP2 doesn't solve any of the problems with the laptop's
power settings--they're screwed up totally and for good. I've now 1:06 of
battery life even in Max battery mode.

The only advice I've heard is "use the recovery CD-ROMs" -- which means
everything on the laptop gets toasted.

For me, personally, this is an inconvenience, for I just use the laptop as a
backup PC. But there are folks out there who are really in a pickle, for
their machines serve as a primary PC. WinXP SP2 should've come with a major
warning for laptop users....

"Malke" wrote:

> Tom G wrote:
>
> > UNINSTALL SP2 i di it sucks
> >
> >
> > "BigGuy" <bapunch@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:9abb6822.0409041500.3ed49867@posting.google.com...
> >> > I have a new Averatec 5400 series laptop and I installed WinXP SP2
> >> > onto
> > the
> >> > machine yesterday. Overall, the update seemed to work very well
> >> > and I thought that I wouldn't have any headaches--until I tried to
> >> > put the
> > machine
> >> > in standby- or hibernate-mode. These simply don't work as they
> >> > used to.
> >> >
> >> > I can't get my machine to go into standby by closing the lid: fans
> >> > still
> > are
> >> > on and there's HD activity. If I actually make it hibernate by
> > depressing
> >> > the power button briefly, it can't be reawakened--it has to be shut
> >> > down
> > and
> >> > rebooted. And if I actually try to shut it down, the machine goes
> > through
> >> > all of the normal motions, except the monitor never goes out--and I
> >> > have
> > to
> >> > physically depress the power-button once more to turn the screen
> >> > off.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Sounds exactly like my issue, same model Averatec 5428 notebook. I
> >> hope someone finds a fix I really hate to not be able to standby.
>
> You both need to go to Averatec's website and see if there is updated
> power management software for your laptops. If you don't see any, then
> call their tech support and explain the problem.
>
> Malke
> --
> MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
>

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