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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?
--
Puzzled,
Robbie Hatley
lonewolf aatt well dott com
www dott well dott com slant user slant lonewolf slant
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?
--
Puzzled,
Robbie Hatley
lonewolf aatt well dott com
www dott well dott com slant user slant lonewolf slant