help with standby in XP

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"Dana Conners" <dc@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> I am completely baffled by how standby/hibernation works in Windows XP.
>
> My notebook is properly set up for standby and hibernation. When the
> machine is freshly booted, these two modes work fine. But over time,
> after some repeated standby-hibernate-restore cycles, the notebook
> simply won't go into standby mode anymore, even when there isn't any
> application running. Forcing the notebook to go into either of these
> modes from Start, or by pushing the power button (programmed to go to
> hibernate) works without any problem.
>
> Just to give some more info: To debug the problem, I tried programming
> the power management to make the screen go blank and the notebook go
> into standby after 15 minutes of idle time. At the end of the idle
> period, the screen goes blank but the machine never goes into standby.
>
> Does anyone know what's causing this behavior, and how I can find out
> and fix the problem? This is becoming a really annoying problem for me
> as a few times I left the computer running on battery and it got
> competely drained.
>
> Thanks much.
>
> /dc

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