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359854 2005-05-30 10:05:00 I have been having problems when bringing my computer out of standby.
Quite often the mouse, keyboard and monitor don't power up however the computer does. Sometimes this happens, sometimes it doesn't.
The only way I have found to get around this is turning the computer off at the wall.

I am running an ECS KM400-M2 with an AMD Athlon XP 2600+, 512mB RAM.

This is getting really frustrating as I enjoy standby mode because it works much faster than hibernation.

Any help is appreciated. 		tomsheep3000 (8237)
359855 2005-05-30 10:56:00 If you have a mouse attached via USB or other periphials then this may help you situtation.


Right click on My Computer
Select Properties
Select Hardware Tab
Click on Device Manager button
Expand Universal Serial Bus Controllers
Double click on USB Root Hub or right click and select Properties
Click on the Power Management tab
Deselect "Allow the computer to turn of this device to save power"
Click OK
Close window


I noted you are using Windows XP, but a known fix for logitech mouses (are you using one of these?) for windows 98 and ME users was to:


Click Start | Run
Type REGEDIT and click OK
In left pane of Registry Editor navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Logitech\MouseWare\Cur rentVersion \Technical\APMMode


In right pane of Registry Editor right click on APMMode, select Modfiy and replace setting with the value "OFF"
Press F5 to save changes
Close Registry Editor window


It may be possible to apply a similar tweak in the Windows XP registry.

Regards,

Timothy 		AlphabetSoup (8128)
359856 2005-05-30 20:35:00 Thanks for the help, I'll check it out.

Yes I am using windows XP however my mouse only seems to have hp markings on it ( it came with an hp system but now I have a new one) 		tomsheep3000 (8237)
359857 2005-05-30 21:52:00 Also keep in mind that desktop hardware is not always suitable for standby/hibernation.

Its a process that is optimised for laptop hardware, and in the last dozen or so desktop PC's I have had, using standby has always introduced some degree of unreliability.

But in several laptops, its been OK.

Not saying all desktops do not support it, but where there are problems, there may be little you can do. 		godfather (25)
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