HP Compaq desktop remains noisy in standby

tmolnard

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HP Compaq ultra slim desktop with Winxp. Browser IE 8. Changed OS from French to English, I had to solve a few driver problems. Now when I put the PC in standby, some noise remains, could be the disk or more probably the fan. Under the French OS I did not have this problem.
Resume from standby by touching any key on the keyboard is enabled. I read that disabling this feature could stop the noise in standby. But my keyboard does not have the option to enable or disable wake-up from standby. In the BIOS the fan's idle speed can be adjusted, but can't be reduced to nil.
No doubt a great success of Microsoft and/or HP.
I tried as an alternative hibernation, but there the problem is the other way round: it stops all noise, but can't wake up: it displays the message "resuming windows", but the screen remains black.
Any help/suggestion is welcome.
Thomas
 
Solution
http://www.cnet.com/news/fixes-for-windows-standby-and-sleep-problems/

Standby issues can be difficult to fix as either you are left with some noise, or cannot wake up. The above article offers some suggestions.