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Terry Pinnell
There's something odd happening with my power options on this 5-year
old MESH Athlon 1800 (1 GB) running XP Home. Under Control Panel >
Power Options I don't use Hibernate (not enabled) or Standby (set to
'Never'). All I have under the Power Schemes tab is 'Turn off monitor'
= 'After 20 mins'.
But:
1. After using Start > Turn Off Computer > Turn Off, the PC appears to
power down (HD and monitor both power off). But it is obviously *not*,
because the LEDs for Power and HD are both still on.
2. By accident I discovered that if I press the keyboard Space key,
the PC powers up again! (No other key I tried seems to do it. Nor a
mouse click of any kind.)
What can be the possible cause please?
Also, under the Advanced tab, I don't really understand how to
interpret the drop-down box options. At present I have
'When I press the power button on my computer:' set to 'Shut down'.
Why would I ever want anything else? For example, 'Do nothing' seems
pointless!
And 'When I press the sleep button on my computer:' is set to 'Stand
by'. But what exactly is the 'Sleep Button'? As far as I know I just
have a Power button and a Reset button, and that's been the case with
all my PCs.
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Terry, East Grinstead, UK
old MESH Athlon 1800 (1 GB) running XP Home. Under Control Panel >
Power Options I don't use Hibernate (not enabled) or Standby (set to
'Never'). All I have under the Power Schemes tab is 'Turn off monitor'
= 'After 20 mins'.
But:
1. After using Start > Turn Off Computer > Turn Off, the PC appears to
power down (HD and monitor both power off). But it is obviously *not*,
because the LEDs for Power and HD are both still on.
2. By accident I discovered that if I press the keyboard Space key,
the PC powers up again! (No other key I tried seems to do it. Nor a
mouse click of any kind.)
What can be the possible cause please?
Also, under the Advanced tab, I don't really understand how to
interpret the drop-down box options. At present I have
'When I press the power button on my computer:' set to 'Shut down'.
Why would I ever want anything else? For example, 'Do nothing' seems
pointless!
And 'When I press the sleep button on my computer:' is set to 'Stand
by'. But what exactly is the 'Sleep Button'? As far as I know I just
have a Power button and a Reset button, and that's been the case with
all my PCs.
--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK