From: William Armstrong (warmstrong_at_waldinc.com)
Date: Fri Jan 12 2001 - 16:38:15 EST
John,
Did you install any new apps or add a new hardware driver recently? Known
problems are some installs of Quicken and other apps that run all of the
time. I also recently had problems with a little weather program that
checked the weather via the internet or a another app that came along with
the weather program, something called Aveo or Avio. One of those apps was
preventing Standby from occuring and I had to uninstall them both. You
should also look in your Startup folders for stuff and maybe even try moving
things out one by one. It's laborious, but something is probably wanting to
not shut down properly when you want to go to Standby. I think that there
are some apps that maybe monitor an i/o port and when you try to go to
Standby they don't want to relenquish the port. It may be that the app is
not written properly for W2k and therefore cannot handle the Stnadby
process.
Good luck!
Bill Armstrong
-----Original Message-----
From: John Bridges [mailto:jbridges_at_netcom.com]
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 4:11 PM
To: THINKPAD_at_CS.UTK.EDU
Subject: [TP770ED] No standby, or hibernate in Win2000?
I've noticed that my ThinkPad 770ED no longer has any kind of standby or
hibernate option of any kind.
I have the most recent BIOS installed, and every driver/utility I could find
at IBM. The battery monitor works, I see all the ACPI devices listed in the
device manager.
But in the power options for when the power switch is used, or the lid is
closed, I have no options beyond power off.
The shutdown menu has no standby or hibernate option, the Fn-F3 key does
nothing (but FN-F7 does work).
I looked in the BIOS setup, and see no sort of enable/disable for power
saving features.
I'm baffled!
I even looked for the Legacy APM driver (since I heard that helps on some
ThinkPads), and it was not listed in any of the device types.
Is it time to do yet another fresh install, and then watch after each
application/driver/utility install to see which one killed the power saving
features? Or would a fresh install fail right from the start?
We are talking Win2000 Server SP1 (where SP1 is integrated in).
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