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| Thread ID: 25922 | 2002-10-15 05:49:00 | Power Options in Win 2k | Ron_A (1369) | Press F1 |
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| 89366 | 2002-10-15 05:49:00 | Hi I have W2K pro and an iKeyWorks keyboard with a sleep button function. It is really brassing me off - I can put the PC to sleep but cannot easily bring it back to life. I've tried all sorts of options but most require a restart or even a cold boot - in which case I lose the current work. I have made sure the STR function in BIOS is disabled. What I want is just to have the sleep button disabled on the keyboard and power oprtions set to manual. So that I would do EVERYTHING manually - its not a major effort to push a button! Can someone please help. TIA Ron PC Specs Windows 2000 Professional, Service Pack 3 No details available Processor a Main Circuit Board 833 megahertz AMD Athlon 128 kilobyte primary memory cache 256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. 7ZX 1.0 Bus Clock: 100 megahertz BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 62710 07/15/97 Drives Memory Modules 25.33 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity 13.05 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE CyberDrv CW018D CD-R/RW [CD-ROM drive] 3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive] FUJITSU MPG3204AH E (20.50 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 0 ST36421A (6.45 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 1 768 Megabytes Installed Memory 512 Megabyte Module Size - 1 Installed 128 Megabyte Module Size - 2 Installed Local Drive Volumes c: (on drive 0) 10.49 GB 7.34 GB free d: (on drive 1) 6.45 GB 1.21 GB free e: (on drive 0) 8.39 GB 4.51 GB free Network Drives Controllers Printers Primary IDE Channel [Controller] Secondary IDE Channel [Controller] VIA Bus Master IDE Controller EPSON Stylus C41 Series on USB001 HP LaserJet 1200 Series PCL 6 on DOT4_001 Windows NT Fax Driver on MSFAX: Display NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 [Display adapter] Bus Adapters Multimedia None detected CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device Game Port for Creative Communications Other Devices U.S. Robotics 56K Voice EXT PnP [Modem] HP LaserJet 1200 USB Generic USB Hub USB Printing Support USB Root Hub USB Root Hub VIA USB Universal Host Controller |
Ron_A (1369) | ||
| 89367 | 2002-10-15 08:01:00 | Personally, I never use Sleep mode. I don't trust it. Never have. I disable all power saving features first chance I get on PCs. They use knacker all power anyway and power saving just causes grief, especially with network connections. Not much help to you, but I guess I'm saying I'm not surprised it doesn't work. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 89368 | 2002-10-15 08:06:00 | Doesn't your iKeyWorks software allow you to customise your hot keys? There might be an option to disable the sleep key in there somewhere. Have you had a look? Jen |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 89369 | 2002-10-15 08:09:00 | Duh, just re-read the problem. So you don't WANT the sleep key to work. Can I assume you've disabled all powersaving and the damn sleep key still puts it to sleep when you don't want it to? I hate that. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 89370 | 2002-10-15 08:15:00 | Thanks - All BUT the Sleep button!!!! Ron |
Ron_A (1369) | ||
| 89371 | 2002-10-15 08:21:00 | I don't know if this is an idiotic suggestion - but how about physically disabling your sleep key, ie open up the keyboard and detached the appropriate connection. A bit drastic, but puts the key out of action! Jen |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 89372 | 2002-10-15 10:43:00 | With my MS Internet KB, I can disable it with the software. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 89373 | 2002-10-15 18:49:00 | In 'control panel', 'power options' on the 'advanced' tab you should be able to configure what you want the 'power', and 'sleep' buttons to do. Also enable 'hibernate' in the 'hibernate' tab. This will save your work, shut down and even if you can't wake up your machine from the keyboard you will be able to wake up from the power button. the answer is ~42~ |
~42~ (2034) | ||
| 89374 | 2002-10-16 00:38:00 | *Agrees with ~42~* Hibernating is easy enough. In my experience, all you gotta do to wake a PC up is hit Esc, and then move the mouse, and on PC's that are brand spanking new, they're back into like in under 2 seconds. That's how it works for me at least. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 89375 | 2002-10-16 06:32:00 | the only sleep function i use is the monitor one as my PC is usually busy D/loading most of the time | kiwibeat (304) | ||
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