Re: What Do Windows PCs Do While They're Sleeping?
- From: Mike Rivers <mrivers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:15:26 -0700 (PDT)
On Sep 25, 6:03 pm, "Soundhaspriority" <nowh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Control Panel-->Keyboard-->Hardware-->HID Keyboard Properties-->Power
Management-->(check box, "Allow this device to bring the computer out of
standby.:")
I assume that's what makes it pay attention to the "sun" button (or
any key) which takes it out of standby.
Interesting. I looked at the nearest computer with XP on it, a laptop
with an external keyboard, and it didn't have that option. Then I
looked at the computer that started this discussion and indeed it had
a Power Management tab with the check box you described. I unchecked
it (yes, it had been checked) and indeed the keyboard now does not
take it out of standby - I have to press the power button on the
computer. I'll try it that way and see if it continues to fully stand
by and let you know what happens.
This is a PS2 keyboard, not USB. Remember that discussion of a while
back, that resulted in my replacing the new computer with only USB
ports with one that had PS/2 keyboard and mouse connectors?
Some peripheral cards can wake up a machine, if they can generate "power
management events." All USB 2.0 cards, and some Firewire cards can do this.
So can modem cards, and modern LAN cards.
I do have a Firewire card in the computer, but for what it's worth I
have the Firewire networking disabled. Of course there's a LAN card
(actually built into the motherboard rather than a real card) but I
have the BIOS "LAN wakeup" turned off. There isn't anything plugged
into the USB ports that I'd be willing to unplug just to keep it in
standby though. There's a hub, a hard drive dock (but that's powered
down unless it's in use), and a couple of USB1.1 devices, a Steinberg
dongle key and a MIDI interface.
.
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