Re: power management

My advice, now on my 3rd computer in a short time (dell) is to disable
power management completely; it hasn't worked well on any one of the 3
dell computers I have. I read users' comments who wrote that PM is
really only good or compatible with notebooks.


Alan wrote:
"Robert M Jones" <robert53newsgroups-ms2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Robert M Jones wrote:
NewScience wrote:
What has changed since the last time it worked. Did you install any
apps or updates to those apps?

"Robert M Jones" <robert53newsgroups-ms2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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I set up power saving on my XP home system and it worked for a while
then for some reason has stopped. The computer will not automatically
go
into standby after the time set in Windows.
I can get it to go into standby by using the hotkey set in the BIOS,
and
it wakes up to do scheduled tasks but it will no longer switch itself
off.

How can I trouble shoot this please?
I've switched off my antispyware software to see if that was the
problem
with frequent disk accesses but no difference.
XP Home, Norton AV 2005, Zone Alarm free version, Mailwasher (checking
restricted to daytime and beyond the frequency set for standby switch
off anyway)
Motherboard Foxconn 760GXK8MC

I normally log off from all accounts. Because the computer is not
going into standby automatically I am selecting standby after logging
off the windows user accounts. I have various scheduled tasks set
in the admin account which run overnight - the computer wakes to do
them
but does not go off again afterwards.

If I switch all the powersaving off in the BIOS can I still switch on
with a hotkey using powersaving in Windows?

Many thanks.
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no new apps, but of course Windows and all the security apps are
updating constantly.

It seems to be working again after I made all accounts admin, reentered
all the power saving settings in Windows, reverted the user accounts
back to limited access, fiddled with the BIOS setting - but could NOT
turn off the main power management setting in the BIOS without throwing
Windows into an endless boot cycle. (I also have BootItNG installed)
But this morning the computer was in standby. So it is working again but
I am not sure why!

Thanks anyway


spoke too soon - since then it hasn't gone to sleep!

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Robert, I see that you have migrated from the BT Broadband support groups!
I am anticipating upgrading to XP in the very near future, so I am all ears
if you have any tips and of course recommendations.
Alan

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Relevant Pages

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    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers)
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    ... into standby after the time set in Windows. ... it wakes up to do scheduled tasks but it will no longer switch itself off. ... Because the computer is not going into standby automatically I am selecting standby after logging off the windows user accounts. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers)
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