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| 639246 | 2008-02-10 21:44:00 | Thanks for the good article on PC power and operating costs. It's good to get some light on the less often used facilities on your PC. I've got the Power button standby option working fine, but I cannot and never have been able to get XP to switch my PC to standby. I have a Phoenix-Award BIOS setup, although it does not have as many parameters for the ACPI as shown in your article. I have ACPI Function, ACPI Standby State, Recall VGA BIOS from S3, Suspend Timeout (Minutes), Power Button Function, Restore on AC Power Loss, and Wake up Event Setup. They all seem self-explanatory and are set to what is required as per your article, except for the Suspend Timeout, for which I don't understand the function and is set to Disable. Is my hardware not up to the task, or do I need to set some other obscure option that I haven't been able to find yet, or is there some software fix that I can get hold of. |
beancounter (13390) | ||
| 639247 | 2008-02-10 22:02:00 | WHAT's the brand/model of the motherboard / system?? Does the system shut down completely?? When you select turn off? Or does it say its now safe to turn it off, after?? And you have to turn it off manually |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 639248 | 2008-02-11 07:36:00 | Hi. The motherboard is Micro-ATX MS-7181 (v1.x). If I select Turn off Computer from the normal shutdown process, the PC shuts down completely but the monitor stays on standby. And there is still power to the USB hub because the indicator light stays on. I don't get the 'safe to turn off' message. | beancounter (13390) | ||
| 639249 | 2008-02-11 07:42:00 | And there is still power to the USB hub because the indicator light stays on . It would be on if there's power is going to it . If its a powered hub . Well yer the monitor will be on standby if you turn the computer off . Turning a computer off, wont turn the monitor off completely . Are the videocard drivers installed (not microsoft's drivers) . Is XP up to date with updates? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 639250 | 2008-02-12 08:10:00 | I presume you mean the Display Adapter. It's a VIA/S3G and as far as I can tell it has the manufacturer's drivers installed. XP is up to date | beancounter (13390) | ||
| 639251 | 2008-02-13 05:18:00 | After a bit of experimenting, I think it's the screen saver that's causing the problem. If I set the Standby time to less the the screen saver kick in time, the standby works OK. If the screensaver kicks in before the standby, all that happens is that the screensaver stops, but the standby shutdown doesn't operate. | beancounter (13390) | ||
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