Re: Hibernating/Stand by problem

Hello Barbaraann,

Yeh, these are the worst kind of problems
to figure out. So whatever I would suggest
to you would be the actions that I would take
on my Pc if I had a similar problem.

Here are some quick and general thoughts:

We should keep in mind that
if the power to the pc is taken away, it can
not power up by itself. Therefore, if it powers
up by itself, then it is in a standby state.

The power settings called "turn off" and "hibernation"
both powerdown the pc, e.g., turns off the incoming
power/electricity.

So if the pc does awaken by itself, then it is in a
standby state and the pc is not powered down.

The motherboard has the ability to awaken
from a standby state via its cmos. The option is
found in the power section and usually referred to as
"awaken on LAN" or something similarly phrased.

If awaken on LAN is selected then there are additional options
designating the amount of time. Double
check to see that the awaken on LAN is unselected in the cmos.

As mentioned the above are some thoughts. At this time I am waiting
to see how long will it be before it's time to uncross your fingers.

I do have a thought on a possible solution.
However I will do some technical research of it.

A quick question, when you presume to go into hibernation,
does a screen pop up confirming the hibernation? And if
it does, do you press the on / off switch to turn the pc
off or does it appear to power down by itself?


"Barbaraann" <Barbaraann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:837B4CB6-4E74-4AFA-BF1D-E72E3BEF9FA4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi, still having ongoing problems with hibernation/standby. Rock and DB
offered useful suggestions.

To fix this I have disconnected any wire to the PC. Opened the unit pulled
the battery…waited 30 minutes. Reinstalled battery and booted up. This
appears to work. The first time worked for 36 hours. This reset has been
working for 3 hours.
My question is until I find what is causing the problem (The problem is at
:21 and :51 past the hour the PC is awakened by some command. 5 minutes later
the PC returns to the sleep state and the cycle repeats) is there a command
to rest the CMOS or bios in which I do not have to unseat the battery and
then reseat? Any advice or links would be appreciated.

Other steps I have taken
1. Eliminate as many background programs as I can.
2. Defrag, check disk, delete cookies, temp files and remove any unwanted
programs.
3. I have bypassed the power management window and have reset the Microsoft
keyboard sleep button to manually start hibernate. As I said this has been
working for 4 hours (fingers crossed).

--
Redhead


"Barbaraann" wrote:

> Hi, I am having an ongoing problem with hibernate and stand by.
> 1. PC goes into hibernate or stand by when scheduled.
> 2. At :21 and :51 past the hour the PC is awakened.
> 3. 5 minutes later the PC returns to Hibernate or stand by.
> 4. To fix it I have done the following;
> a. Remove battery, wait 30 minutes reinstall. This did work for 36 hours.
> b. Run msconfig disable and enable.
> c. Run check disc, defrag, delete cookies and temp files.
> 5. Problem ongoing for over a year.
> 6. System is 512mb mem, intel P4 3.0mhz. Norton internet security, aol 9.0
> se, microsoft office 2003.
> 7. What is causing this? It is driving me crazy tring to fix this. This is a
> gateway I have frustrated their techs. Their final suggestion being to make a
> CD copy of the system restore drivers. Unistall and reinstall.
>
> ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. THANK YOU!
> --
> Rehead