My computer sometimes freezes coming out of standby.

[Guest Robbie Hatley]

Greetings, group. I've been experiencing an annoying problem

with my Windows 2000: I usually put my computer in "Standby"

mode at night to kill fan and disk noise without wiping out

contents of RAM. I prefer standby over shut-down because the

computer can be shut-down and re-started MUCH faster that way.

(About 2 seconds to shut down and 10 seconds to start up,

as opposed to several minutes for each if I use shut-down.)

 

The problem is, sometimes (about 20% of the time) when I push

the "On" button to come out of standby mode, the computer

freezes. The video doesn't come on (the monitor pilot light

stays orange instead of going green), and the system doesn't

respond to the keyboard. I have to push the Reset button and

re-boot.

 

When I check the event logs, there is nothing there for the

initial attempt to come out of standby. It shows various

services starting up after pushing Reset and rebooting, but

it's as if the initial restart attempt never happened.

 

Anyone have an idea as to what might be causing this, and

how to fix it?

 

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Puzzled,

Robbie Hatley

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