Blank Screen/Slow CPU when opening lid from Standby

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Anyone? :-|

"Harry Mondeo" <harry@mondeoNOEMAIL.net> wrote in message
news:anYbd.9348$xb.6294@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> Hi, I have a Dell Latitude laptop. If I set the Power options to go to
> Standby or Hibernate when I close the lid, and I close the lid, the system
> goes to sleep correctly. When I open the lid again, it appears to power
> up correctly, however the screen is blank.
>
> For Standby it stays blank the whole time.
> For Hibernate, it wakes the screen during the DOS-screen boot up but once
> WinXP is due to kick back in as I left it, the screen blanks again.
>
> If I virtually close the lid until it all but clicks into the lock, then
> open it again, the screen reappears!
>
> Any ideas how I can get it to just come on when I open it the first time?
>
> Also, sometimes when returning from Standby, the processor is painfully
> slow. CPU usage is 100% and 99% of that is 'System' but nothing is
> running. It takes about 5 minutes to get the Start Menu to pop up. Known
> problem?
>
> Many thanks.
>