Standby - Hibernating -HD
Jan 28, 2006
I need a little favor, recently I've just discovered by accident that my Dell PC couldn't go into Standby Mode (nor Hibernate), everything froze, my mouse pointer wouldn't move and my keyboard was sort of "dead," like the system froze (on the "Preparing to Standby/Hibernate" screen) or something like that.I did a search on Google as well as this forum, all fetched me different solutions, I've tried quite a few but nothing seems to work I've a Dell Dimension 5150, here are the specs, my HD is 80GB instead of 160.. Running on Windows XP Home Edition.
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Jul 7, 2005
is there a way for Windows XP to go into hybernation and then when remoting into the computer, it awakes?
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Nov 22, 2009
After fighting with a sequence of problems seemingly caused by malware, I finally bit the bullet and reinstalled XP. Now Laptop will no longer give me the option of Hibernating on Shutdown. When I entered "POWERCFG /HIBERNATE/ ON" it tells me SYSTEM DOES NOT SUPPORT HIBERNATION! It did before the reinstall. It wouldn't be a BFD if I didn't run my HP pavilion only on batteries. It was very convenient to hibernate when one battery ran down, while I put the other one in. (Why do I only run on batteries? -- after spending $$$ to replace the HP DC jack, I decided not to do it again when the new one failed --- no I didn't ever yank the cord out and no one else uses the machine.)
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Nov 11, 2006
I have a new Dell Inspiron Media version of Win XP- a Laptop I am using as a desktop replacement. It simply won't remain on Standby for longer than 10 or 12 minutes and then goes back to desktop and then in time, the screensaver.
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Nov 2, 2007
Got an XP S2, with 256M of RAM, 2 hard disks of 40 meg each. For over 2 years, I've had it set to "When I press Power Button, go to Hibernate." Worked great, avoiding godawful long reboots.I rebooted when updating or installing, and very infrequently, when things choked up the machine.Nothing else is wrong I've run a couple of virus checkers, a couple of Register cleaners, and some clean-up disk utilities. Nothing negative, but no effect whatsoever.
I've gone into Power Settings from Control Panel. Several times I took it out of the Hibernate instruction, rebooted, and put in back into Hibernate mode. No luck.I did the same thing, only setting it to Total Off, to Restart, to Ask Me What to Do, and to Go to Standby. After power off, reboot, and later reset to Hibernate, no luck. It continues to "UnHibernate" after a minute or two of darkness & inactivity, when it's supposed to be hibernating.
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Aug 28, 2005
my brother always told me not to use standby, but i find it would be convienent now, is it bad to use? cause its going to get hot in here with my big a** tower, my roommate has a laptop
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Jan 24, 2006
My computer keeps switching itself to standby on its own after 20-30 minutes.
I have checked in my power settings and it is supposed to be set to always on,
The computer is pretty much brand new from Dell so maybe it is some factory setting.
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Feb 6, 2007
how do you know if Standby is working?
i know when hibernate is working cause i hit the power button to bring it back to its previous state...however, i am working on writing an application and need to use standby, so last night i was trying out standby on my pc...i set it to shutdown the HDD after a time period and go to standby (which brings me to another question - when using standby, should you set the system to go to standby BEFORE turning of HDD or vice-versa? meaning, i have it set to go to standby in 15 mins and turn off HDD in 20 mins, or should that be the other way?)...i come back an hour later and the fans are running - which i suspect is due to my USB mouse enabled to bring it out of standby and i'll change this feature this evening...so i hit a key on the keyboard and it almost instantly came back to my desktop, almost like i only had the monitor go off after a time period...
so how do you know if standby is working?
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Nov 22, 2007
Computer is in Standby, I click enter, then Internet Explorer but I can't get the cursor to appear, then I get the Internet Explorer is not responding message.
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May 1, 2008
What exactly do I have to do to keep my pc from going on standby?
I have disabled powermanagement in bios, in display settings under the Power settings they are all set to Never hibernate is unchecked but it still keeps going to standby
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Nov 6, 2009
I have Acer Aspire-Windows XP Professional,I have Acer Aspire-Windows XP Professional and have a problem with my PC: it doesnt go on standby by itself, I cant understand why. I looked under Screen Saver POWER and system stand by it is set to 10 mins. I can get it to stand by pressing the button.
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Sep 15, 2005
Monitor goes into standby. Pc looks to be on, but a reboot is required to get it back on it's feet again. Dont think its a dodgy moniter cable. Could be overheating, but it's never happened before. Started last night. PC has been on for all day and every day nigh on 4 years. Can you think of anything that could be giving? Is it possible that a corrupted hdd could casue this - because I know mine are quite messed up. Cant think of much more than this. I've checked system logs and they turn up nothing in particular. When the pc turns off, it's under no abnormal degree of strain, nor is there any patturn in when it turns off.
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Sep 5, 2005
I have re-installed windows XP home using the OEM Key on my laptop. Prior to the re-install, it would allow me to put the computer onto hibernate or standby, now post re-install, I cannot put the machine into standy by.
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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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Sep 3, 2005
I've seen very clear instructions on how to put a PC or
laptop into 'standby' or 'hibernation'. but I can't find ANYWHERE how to
bring the PC or laptop out of standby or hibernation. Can someone please tell me1. How to come out of 'standby'?2. How to come out of 'hibernation'?
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Jul 4, 2005
i can't get my Dell Dimension 8100 (640MB RAM, 1.3 GHz P4) to go into
standby or hibernation mode. When I manually put the computer in standby or
hibernate, it wakes back up in about 5 minutes or so.
I've looked/read the articles in the knowledge base, which mentioned that
there was a problem with SP1 and USB mass storage devices. Well, I've got SP2
and there still is some problem going on!
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Jul 4, 2009
I am using Acer TravelMate 5720. Till yesterday everything was working fine. But from today when i close the laptop lid the system does not goes into standby. i checked the settings in Power options. There i kept it to standby option only.Me using XP with SP2.
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Jan 24, 2005
First of all, after clicking "shut down" my computer would go to a screen labeled "It is now safe to shut down your computer." I have encountered this before, and I went to turn on APM in power settings. However, I can no longer go to stand by anymore
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Aug 18, 2005
I run xp and have a HP Pavilion 9600. I've never used stand by before, but I have a standby key on my keyboard that my 11 month old son convenantly hits everytime I am online. I've tried hitting return, space, esc, and so forth but nothing brings it out, and I have to do a cold shut down.
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Nov 17, 2009
I have a HP 2800 (2.8) AMD Athlon running XP home.When the computer goes to standby (power switch flashing) and I touch the keyboard to bring it out of standby, the computer turns itself off. The fan seem to be working ok.
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Aug 7, 2009
My Daughter has a dell inspiron 1200 running XP that is about 5 yrs old and had slowed to a crawl, so she bought a new one when she graduated from college. I reformated and reinstalled XP and all the drivers and added a gig of ram. Runs great now but now the standby or hibernate is no longer active and I can't figure out what to do.
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Oct 21, 2008
When I put my computer into hibernate or standby mode, it restarts by itself in about five minutes. I have windows xp. The problem is recent.
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Aug 12, 2007
Hibernate and Standby were working fine on the machine. But since about a week. Both the Standby and Hibernate feature are not working. The detailed explanation is given below. I have three account profiles all set to admin. The computer does go on standby or hibernate when on the welcome screen but only if no one is logged on. If I have logged on, and then i select standby or hibernate nothing happens. After this if i try to shut down the computer it kind of hangs halfway through the shutdown process. It seems that it is trying to hibernate and shutdown at the same time.
If I have not requested for a hibernate or standby, and then try to shutdown the computer. It shuts down properly. if I log-off to the welcome screen and no other account is logged on then also the hibernate and standby work fine. I have tried to run system restore, but when it boots up in the restore process, i get a message that no changes have been made try another restore point... i have tried many points but it does not work.... am totally confused. I have also reinstalled the patch on the Microsoft website for XP where a machine with more than 2Gb of ram needs to hibernate.
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Oct 15, 2009
My Dell Mini 10V netbook, with Windows XP, SP3 won't standby or hibernate. It hangs at the "Preparing to Standby". I have to completely shut it off by holding the power switch. It reboots fine. It will shutdown without delay, but it doesn't save the desktop layout. I've tried the clean boot and it still doesn't standby. I'm doing the testing without the external monitor, keyboard, or mouse and it doesn't make any difference. It has all the original hardware. It would standby when I first got it and I have another Mini 10V that does standby and hibernate correctly.
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Jan 21, 2006
Looking for work-around solution standby/hibernate failure in WinXP system after installation of PGP 6.x.
Problem is completely described in Microsoft KB
article Q-314118 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314118/en-us
I am presently using PGP 6.5.1 and want to keep it. I'm using it for the PGPdisk features with encrypted
volumes (directories). It works fine in WinXP with both existing PGD volumes that I have (from previous
systems) and it also works fine with newly created PGD volumes. The only problem is that it prevents WinXP from entering Standby modes when I attempt this power down feature in WinXP for my laptop.........
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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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Aug 29, 2006
how to use the standby, as i've used it before in the past times, but recently when i click standby and i wait it does not go into standby and remains normal. Im pretty sure its not a virus/ malware seeing how i scanned my computer with nothing suscipicious.
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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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