Windows 2000 My computer sometimes freezes coming out of standby (attempt #2).

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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
 
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
>
>
 
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