My computer sometimes freezes coming out of standby (attempt #2).

[Guest Robbie Hatley]

I first posted the following message here 6 days ago, but

to my surprise, this received no responses at all.

The problem my message describes continues to recur,

so I'll try posting this again to bring it back to the

"top of the stack". Any clues anyone can give me will be

greatly appreciated.

 

 

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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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(Still) puzzled,

Robbie Hatley

lonewolf aatt well dott com

www dott well dott com slant user slant lonewolf slant

[Guest 3c273]

Re: My computer sometimes freezes coming out of standby (attempt #2).

 

Standby problems are usually pretty difficult to diagnose but usually are

realted to hardware drivers. You may want to try hibernate as an alternative

or maybe change the type of standby in the BIOS. (S1, S3 ??).

Louis

 

"Robbie Hatley" <see.my.signature@for.my.email.address> wrote in message

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>

> I first posted the following message here 6 days ago, but

> to my surprise, this received no responses at all.

> The problem my message describes continues to recur,

> so I'll try posting this again to bring it back to the

> "top of the stack". Any clues anyone can give me will be

> greatly appreciated.

>

>

> ~~~~~~~ begin original message ~~~~~~~

>

> 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?

>

> ~~~~~~~ end original message ~~~~~~~

>

>

>

> --

> (Still) puzzled,

> Robbie Hatley

> lonewolf aatt well dott com

> www dott well dott com slant user slant lonewolf slant

>

>