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System Standby
After along period in standby the system freezes when I try to come out of standby. I get the desktop and mouse pointer but cannot move pointer or use Ctrl-Alt-Del. Have to power downr and restart the system. Anyone else having this problem and is there anything I can do to resolve it.
Any help appreciated. Thanks.
Any help appreciated. Thanks.
Hi Phil,
Standby is one part of power management which did not port well to desktop systems from the laptops for which it was developed. It just does not work well reliably. It is recommended that you go to My Computer | Control Panel | Power Management and set Standby to Never; set both the monitor and the hard drive to power down as you see fit. If you still have trouble with freezes under these settings, then consider your screensaver--if you are using a 3D screensaver, either cut back its settings (many of these have configuration screens), or change to a non- 3D screensaver and see if that helps; possibly disable the screensaver altogether, since it isn't really needed with modern monitors.
Good luck,
KayMichigan cat
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Posted February 28th, 2000 04:00
I belive this was a Dell over site!! in nother words ( DID WE DO THAT ???? )When i first got my dell i had the same problem. well , what the h#ll did they put the dang thing in there, if you cant use it!! since i locked it out as,< never > i get along fine M.C.- Join the crowd. I've tried various suggested fixes, including a registry fix. Nothing works reliably. It's a Windows problem.
My suggestion: Don't use standby.
I've decided that life is too short to worry about it anymore. I've seen posts by people who have had their 486's running 24/7 since the early '90s with no power management and no hardware failure.
nilo
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Posted February 28th, 2000 01:00
- After along period in standby the system freezes
- when I try to come out of standby. I get the
- desktop and mouse pointer but cannot move pointer or
- use Ctrl-Alt-Del. Have to power downr and restart
- the system. Anyone else having this problem and is
- there anything I can do to resolve it.
-
- Any help appreciated. Thanks.
Phil,
If your having this problem on a desktop system then that's your problem. Standby was not meant for desktop systems. The Dell techs in the past have posted that you should not use standby unless you have a notebook system.
Mis Dos Centavos,
Darrell