Re: WinXP Standby Mode Problem?

Tom:

My 4500 is circa 2002, not 1997, and the issues faced by desktop computers
in dealing with Standby and Hibernation are well known. It's not a question
of XP's "stability"...it's about the different types of hardware and the
implementation of ACPI.

I put my 4500 into Standby every night with two taps: one on the Power
switch and the second on the Enter key. 'Waking up' takes one tap on the
Power switch. For some reason, it takes significantly less time to come out
of Standby since I installed SP 2, but I ain't complainin' {:->

Hope your wife is doing better.

--
Ted Zieglar
"You can do it if you try."

"Tom Scales" <tomtoo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:sPKDe.12197$iG6.2190@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Ted,
>
> Absolutely and completely disagree with you. Perhaps in 1997, but not in
> 2005. With XP being as stable as it is, we put my wife's machine into
> standby every night. No need to reboot and reload you applications every
> day. Just move the mouse and it wakes right up.
>
> Now, to the original question, the keyboard shouldn't be causing you any
> problems at all. What particular keyboard is it? Does it have its own
> special drivers?
>
> I'd start from bare bones. Disconnect everything that can be
disconnected.
> Use a standard, generic keyboard. Get it working, then add things back on
> at a time.
>
> Tom
> "Ted Zieglar" <teddyz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ltudnQAVXpb2jELfRVn-iw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Someone may post with a response to your particular problem. However,
you
> > should know that, in general, Standby and Hibernation were designed for
> > laptop computers, which use very different hardware. You will always be
> > able to put your computer into Standby (or Hibernation) manually, but
you
> > may not be consistently (or at all) able to have your computer enter
these
> > states automatically.
> >
> > Ted Zieglar
> >
> > "Charliec" <charliec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:lb3ud1dkhijg5rb9jessuon6nm04sol5lr@xxxxxxxxxx
> >> I'm trying to take advantage of the Standby Mode in WinXP, but am
running
> >> into some hardware problems that is preventing the PC from going into
> >> Standby mode. At first, it was a printer port logical interface that
was
> >> preventing Standby and that was solved by disable the Printer Port
> >> Logical
> >> Interface. Now the message I get when attempting to go into Standby is
> >> "the Standard 101/102 key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 is preventing the
> >> Standby mode". Has anyone experience this particular problem and have
a
> >> workaround that you can share.
> >>
> >> I have a Dell Dimension 8300 with the standard Dell keyboard and mouse.
> >> Thanks for any insights.
> >> Charlie
> >> ******************************************************
> >> Charliec
> >
>
>

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