Power Options works intermittently

[Guest crandae]

Power Options used to work acceptably well on my Gateway desktop. Now it will

not automatically put my system into hibernation.

I have disabled the Fax from waking the system when a call comes in.

Hibernation is enabled.

I have the Power Options set to hibernate the system after 2 hours. I use my

wireless notebook in the evenings and need to have the desktop on then. I am

somewhat handicapped and getting upstairs to turn the computer off is

difficult. I was using the Power Options to conserve energy. Now, when I come

upstairs in the morning, the monitor is off, but the drives are running and

the system is not in standby or hibernation mode. The Power Options are set

to turn the monitor off after 15 minutes, the drives off after 30 min and

hibernate after 2 hours.

Standby has never worked properly.

I've searched the Windows XP help and how-tos. No answer.

Anybody have any idea what's going on?

[Guest Unknown]

Re: Power Options works intermittently

 

You probably have some program running in the background.

"crandae" <crandae@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:CFD99D94-35FC-47C4-A178-7C9AD962E308@microsoft.com...

> Power Options used to work acceptably well on my Gateway desktop. Now it

> will

> not automatically put my system into hibernation.

> I have disabled the Fax from waking the system when a call comes in.

> Hibernation is enabled.

> I have the Power Options set to hibernate the system after 2 hours. I use

> my

> wireless notebook in the evenings and need to have the desktop on then. I

> am

> somewhat handicapped and getting upstairs to turn the computer off is

> difficult. I was using the Power Options to conserve energy. Now, when I

> come

> upstairs in the morning, the monitor is off, but the drives are running

> and

> the system is not in standby or hibernation mode. The Power Options are

> set

> to turn the monitor off after 15 minutes, the drives off after 30 min and

> hibernate after 2 hours.

> Standby has never worked properly.

> I've searched the Windows XP help and how-tos. No answer.

> Anybody have any idea what's going on?