Dell Desktop Always Starts In Standby Mode
Mar 22, 2008
My Dell Dimension 5000 (Win XP Home) which has worked fine for 2 yrs now starts in standby mode 90% of the time. Pressing and holding the on/off button only shuts it down. The box never starts to power up - I just get the on/off button flashing orange. If it does start up (after trying 20 times) it works perfectly. I've replaced the internal battery, disk space and memory are good, isolated the power supply, disabled Standby and Hibernate in Control Panel and BIOS. Regularly virus and malware checked, disk defragged etc. No new h/w installed.
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Dec 11, 2007
After loading a couple of programs (TurboCad and Adobe Photodeluxe), when I c,ose the lid to my Dell 1501 Inspiron laptop I get a warning sound and the following message on the screen, "The device driver for the 'Standard 101/102-key or Microsft Natural PS/2 keyboard' device is preventing the machine from entering standby. Please close all applications and try again. If the problem persists, you may need to up date this driver.
The problem does , in fact, persisit. I had only one program application running and closing it had no effect. I went into Device manager and opened properties>driver tab for the keyboard. Clicked 'update driver' and was asked to insert the XP CD. no surprise it came beck with I have the latest driver installed. I created a restore point prior to installing the programs, but I'd like to avoid doing it over again. Anyone got any idea of a way to fix this without doing a restore?
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May 7, 2009
I am under the impression that standby mode is compromising my OS. I only began using standby about a year ago and for the past 6 months or so my system has been less responsive and has even locked up a few times. It is an older system to begin with, but the problem is much worse when resuming from standby. I am mostly just curious if other people have had the same issue with XP Pro`s standby mode.
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Jul 17, 2005
I have a compact presario 3080 notebook running windows xp home with sp2 installed. I am unable to use the standby mode, the only option shown 1n the power settings menu for "what to do when I close the lid" is "do nothing" and the standby button is grayed out in the shutdown menu. This used to work, and I am not aware of installing anything that might have caused the problem. I have tried restoring to earlier dates with no luck. I have contacted HP and they tell me the only thing I can do is a complete restore to get this function working again. how I can fix this problem without doing the restore? If not can anyone tell me how to back up Windows xp so that I don't have to download all the updates again?
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Jul 20, 2005
I am running windows xp professinal with sp2, when I force my pc to the standby mode, it lasts only 2 seconds then it get out from the standby mode although nothing happened to make the windows do this
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Aug 27, 2005
I am running windows xp home and have made no changes, when I try to put my computer into standby mode it does not work
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Nov 7, 2008
Recently I had a power outage in my dorm. My computer was on standby mode when it happened. The computer booted normally when the power came back and it ran fine. Then I put the computer in standby mode again because I had to go somewhere. I come back and resume from standby and instead of normally booting to the windows password log on screen, the computer restarts. Also, the LED light on my case that normally blinks on and off during standby, blinks briefly for the first few seconds and then disappears. This never happened before.
I have tried rebooting and shutting down the computer, but every time I go to standby and resume from standby, it restarts and then goes the windows log on screen. I have no idea what is going on. This problem did not happen before the power outage.
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Nov 1, 2009
I am still having issues putting my computer into standby or into hybernation mode. It will start to go into it. But then after a few seconds of it going into the mode, the computer will start back up. I am running windows XP home. The computer model is a MDG computer running a intel motherboard and processor. I have checked and played with the bios setting and it does not help.
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Oct 30, 2009
HP pavilion a1210n XP service sp3 Does not stay in standby mode for more than 1 minute. Removed batteries from mouse so it did not affect standbby mode.
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Oct 12, 2005
Sometimes after using the system for a couple of days, my monitor "forgets" to shift into standby mode after 5 minutes of inactivity. What causes this forgetfulness? Is there a fix for it? One fix that always works is a restart. Is there a less drastic fix that would leave everything up and running?
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Oct 28, 2007
The Toshiba Power Saver is set for the screen and HDD to shut off after 30 minutes of no activity. The screen saver is set to go after 10 minutes but after 30 minutes the screen saver stops and the normal screen comes up. I tried setting to a different power setting by right clicking the desktop and going to properties and setting it to "Portable/Laptop" but it did the same thing. Is there a way to fix this? My OS is XP Media Center and my Toshiba Satellite is a A100/A105 series.
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Apr 27, 2010
whenever i set my laptop to hibernate when i press the power button or close the lid of the computer, it always changes my settings to standby mode. what can i do to stop this?
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Aug 31, 2006
I run Windows XP Home. When I close my notebook and / or put it into standby mode it won't come out, it just gives me a black screen and I have to power down manually. Also, when I try to put it into hibernation mode, it gives a blue error screen that says the system has shut down Windows to avoid damage.
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Aug 28, 2005
I'm using a Compaq Desktop PC. Would you suggest that I enable either Standby or Hibernate mode? BTW, do you put your desktop at a place where there's ventilation to keep it cool?
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Mar 6, 2005
How long can you have your computer in standby mode? I would like it for a day at a time. I am having a start problem with I guess the power usage, It sometimes come on, then shuts off after 3 or 4 seconds. Sometimes only once, but sometimes more than once. Cannot afford right now to get it fixed or to buy something, so maybe if I can keep it in standby it would not use the initial startup surge of power. Also, I though my mouse would take the system out of standby but it don't. I have to use the power button on the computer, (even though the mouse information says to use this device to take the computer out of standby, it is checked. Are there other areas that I should check to see if something is marked wrong for using the mouse to take the system out of standby? I have an optical mouse incase its needed to know.
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Mar 16, 2005
After my pc has been in the standby mode for awhile I get disconnected from the internet and I have to restart. Is this normal? Windows XP.
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Sep 21, 2005
I just installed a new graphics card BFG 6200 G force. My system will no longer come out of standby mode, i have to reboot. I tryed disabling power mangement function in my bios but my PC wont boot unless they are enabled.
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Aug 5, 2005
My Inspiron 6000 would freeze after being put in standby mode overnight and I would have to force shutdown. Soemone on this forum advised me to check the Power Options in Control Panel. How should I set it up so the system won't hang after overnight standby? My current settings: With AC adapter plugged in:
Turn off monitor: Never
Turn off hard disk: Never
System standby: Never
System hibernates: Never
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Dec 31, 2004
The system is a 1.7 Celeron on a MB with ID# P4MXB Win XP Home Edition
Whenever the computer is booting into windows or into windows (within 20 minutes) the video cuts off and goes into something like a standby mode except the only way i can get it to boot back is to reboot computer. If i put a video card in and don't use on board video the computer freezes when i imagine it would normally black out. It never does this in the Bio's.
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Aug 19, 2007
Just recently I've started to lose my USB cable modem connection while on standby. This was not occurring previously. Obviously some setting has gotten changed and I don't know how it happened, I'm relatively certain its in my Widows XP Home Edition software.By trial and error I have learned to reconnect by going to the control panel, network connections, right-clicking on the "Local area connection" heading" and clicking on "disable", which changes the status from "limited or no connection" to "disabled". I then right-click on the heading again and click on "enable". This causes a reconnection. Obviously, I would rather not have to go thru this process each time I go on standby.Since I have a USB connection, a tech advisor at another support forum has already had me do the following; Control Panel/System/Hardware/DeviceManager/
UniversalSerialBusControllers/PowerManagementtab(s) and uncheck each of the (4) options to shut down on standby to save power. For whatever reason,this didn't work, and now he's suggesting that I get an ethernet connection instead. I'm sure that would be superior and maybe solve the problem (and maybe not), but I don't have an ethernet card and I also may soon have to revert to a dial-up connection due to cost..I also confess to disabling the system timer [under system devices] but not knowing what that really meant. What I do know, however, is that the connection is still shutting down on standby.
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Nov 2, 2008
I have WINXP, Service pack 3. On SHUTDOWN I press STANDBY, computer shuts down, same for HIBERNATE. I checked the settings in POWER OPTIONS. No new programs installed recently.
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Feb 23, 2009
when i install xp operating system iam not able to enable standby mode. it is disable mode. what is the problem can anyone give the solution for this.
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Jun 21, 2005
I'm using a new Dell Dimension 4700 with a Pentium 4 3 Gig XP Home Edition version 2002 Service Pack 2. Recently Windows update ran automatically and ate my computer!
I called Microsoft Support and apparently fixed the problem which was a double installation of video drivers from Dell. (Which made my screen go black with a white statement "Cannot display this video mode".) After we got the silly video thing fixed
my Standby option is grayed out and I can't figure out how to get it back
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Oct 24, 2006
I have a dell e1705 laptop and when I close the lid the system does not go into standby or hibernation mode. I do have everything set correctly and the system will go into standby or hibernation just fine if I select one of those options manually, just not automatically when I close the lid.I have tried contacting dell, but their support is horrible and got nowhere.
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Jun 24, 2010
I am running Windows XP on an 8 year old Gateway computer,and it will only start in safe mode.This happened after I updated my hardware drivers.I got a fatal system error box,and system restore doesn't work. When I try to use the Gateway Restore discs,they won't play because my D drive isn't recognized. Should I just scrap everything and get a new HD since I haven't had any luck with reinstalling,or is there a way for a computer idiot to reinstall Windows XP without a disc? I never got one,this was my roommate's old PC.Sorry if this is in the wrong place.
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Jul 23, 2005
When I try to put my computer on standby the following message appears: "The
device driver for the Communications Port (COM1) device is preventing the
machine from entering standby. Please close all applications and try again.
If problem persists, you may need to update the driver." I believe I need to install an updated driver for my display adapter.However, I am having difficulty locating an appropriate download (for no fee, f possible). Could someone point me in the right direction?
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Aug 28, 2005
every time i push the power button on my laptop, or try to enter hibernation or standby mode in any way, an error pops up that says System Hibernation Failed
The device driver for the 'Quick Launch Buttons' device is preventing the machine from entering hibernation. Please close all applications and try again. If the problem persists, you may need to update this driver.i have searched for updates for my driver already so i don't know what to do here.
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Sep 12, 2007
HP m7680n running windows xp, StandBy mode ran well first 8 months I had this machine then last month it stopped functioning. The error message is very specific; 'Microsoft .NET Framework v1.1.4322 Update' is keeping my computer from going into standby mode. I thought this would be easy to solve but I do not know, where this program is located or how to find it nor do I know how to uninstall it.
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Feb 26, 2008
For some odd reason whenever I got to Standby mode, I always have a blue-screen error, I cant make out what it says because it goes by so quick and reboots. Here's my current comp setup.
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Apr 26, 2006
This is not for myself, as you see, I wouldn't be online right now if I couldn't start my computer up.This person that i know is having a start up problem with her computer (windows). Whenever she turns on the computer, it takes her to her computer asking her whether she wants to do safe mode or start windows normally or whatever. Whatever she chose, it took her straight back to that window asking her about that stuff. My information is not sufficient as she is not the kind of patient person even for her own good to explain stuff to me. Secondly, she is not a computer geek.
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Dec 5, 2008
I've been working on my father's computer (an HP pavillion zv5000), and realized that he had some Windows XP updates to be installed, so I decided to download them. What I didn't realize at the time was that he hadn't installed any updates in almost 2 years (though Automatic Updates appear to be enabled). When I rebooted after the installations were complete, I could not start in Normal Mode. When starting normally, I get a black screen with white writing saying that there's been a problem with the computer (can't remember word-for-word), and gives me the option to start in safe mode, safe mode with networking, and another safe mode. It also offers to start up with the last settings that worked, or normal mode. When I try to boot up in normal mode, it sends me back to that same screen, and likewise when I try to boot with the last settings. Now it only works in Safe Mode. I'm not really sure what's happened, and if it's related to the updates or if it could be a virus.
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