Erratic Stand By Behavior

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The Stand By feature on my Dell Dimension 4550 with Win XP
Home (SP1) is behaving strangely. When I invoke it (from
Start menu), the screen blanks, but in about 3-5 seconds,
the system reactivates. The Hibernate, Turn Off, and
Restart features work fine. This is recent behavior and
thee only
changes I've made recently is to update the BIOS from the
Dell site.

This is not a crucial problem as I can always invoke
Hibernate, or wait for the power settings to put the PC in
Stand By (that works!)

Any ideas appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

Make sure none of your programs are preventing the computer from going to
standby. It sounds like a program is waking your machine...

"Ray Wright" wrote:

> The Stand By feature on my Dell Dimension 4550 with Win XP
> Home (SP1) is behaving strangely. When I invoke it (from
> Start menu), the screen blanks, but in about 3-5 seconds,
> the system reactivates. The Hibernate, Turn Off, and
> Restart features work fine. This is recent behavior and
> thee only
> changes I've made recently is to update the BIOS from the
> Dell site.
>
> This is not a crucial problem as I can always invoke
> Hibernate, or wait for the power settings to put the PC in
> Stand By (that works!)
>
> Any ideas appreciated.
>
>