Lee Reynolds

Something and nothing i think, or is it?

My pc, like others id imagine, goes into standy mode. The fan stops and its like it is switched off, and just pressing any key fires the fan back up and in seconds the screen is back on.

Lately though, the fan stops as it goes into standby mode, but immediatley its as if someone has pressed a key and it fires back up!

Any ideas? No we havent got a ghost lol!

Escow-Van

Have you updated any drivers recently? One of my work laptops did this and blamed the keyboard driver for some reason
I guess you don't get an error message?

rich123

iTrader: (3)

do you have a cd in the rom it may do that when u have a cd in the rom

Lee Reynolds

Yes i do at the mo Rich, but im 99.9% sure it was doing it without one in. Ill check that though cheers

Escow-van, no mesage mate no!

Lee Reynolds

Well, its not the cd rom thats the prob

Daveyboy

you could always have a play around with the power options in control panel. configure it to do different things when you open/close the lid or press buttons etc....

Lee Reynolds

Will have a look but even though im not bad with comps, im not that good either Cheers

RichieST

iTrader: (2)

Could be a dirty mouse ball/laser depending on what sort of mouse you've got. The slightest movement in the mouse will turn it back on.

Go into power options and change it to go to standby, then you need to press the power button on the front of the machine to make it wake up!

Lee Reynolds

Will look at that cheers rich!

Lee Reynolds

Changed the setting for the power button, changed it to make the pc sleep rather than shut down. As soon as it went to sleep it fired straight back up!
Think my comp has insomnia!

TOMMY_RS

has it got a virus?

Rick Astley

It's quite possible that it's your ethernet adaptor causing the problem.

If you go to Start menu type in devmgmt.msc into the search box, then press continue, when the window loads look for Network Adapters, then look for Ethernet, right click on ethernet, go to properties, then power management, look for a tickbox with text alongside saying allow this device to wake the computer. If it is ticked, untick it.

Also check your wireless card to see what power settings that is on also.

SS1

iTrader: (3)

On power options set the pc to PRESENTATION via your POWER SCHEMES scroll down options

Then the pc should never go into standby mode

If it does your problem lies elsewhere

Lee Reynolds

You could have saved the day there matey Checked it and it was set to wake computer!

Will see when i log off tonight if its worked

SS1

iTrader: (3)

Also try this free program for 30 days

http://www.tune-up.com/products/tuneup-utilities/

ive got the free key-gen number for the 2009 edition AWESOME SOFTWARE

just enter your email addy no spam or shit after the free download

it will still fix all errors before the 30 day period

Rick Astley

Go on then Lee, did it fix it?

martysmartie

iTrader: (1)

This will almost certainly be the right answer and would be my first suggestion as well also make sure you are not placing mouse on shiny surface if optical, NIC could cause this but unless you have connected the NIC or changed it's config recently you would have experienced the problem before. Changing what the power button does certainly won't be the remedy.

Martin