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No Standby Mode minor irritation

#1 Knifeblade

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Posted 25 August 2010 - 12:29 PM

When I go to shutdown, the Standby icon is blank, which I'd like to get back. MS is of very little useful help. I have a feeling I disabled something, it used to be there. Anyone have a path for me to try to find how to enable it?

Thanks much, it's minor, but I find it really useful at times. I run XP Home, SP2, on a Dell Dimension 2400, if that's useful.

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#2 crazy4laptops

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Posted 25 August 2010 - 04:26 PM

Knifeblade, on 25 August 2010 - 12:29 PM, said:

Usually when standby is not available, its a driver that is not installed... the driver or hardware in question is usually system bus or chipset

Check your device manager and see if there's anything with a yellow exclamation point

start > run > type 'devicemgmt.msc' (no quotes) and hit enter

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#3 coastie65

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Posted 25 August 2010 - 04:28 PM

To be precise, Graphics drivers. They need to be installed. If they are uninstall them and then reinstall them.

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Posted 25 August 2010 - 06:00 PM

Also, check for power management options in the BIOS. This article by Microsoft may be helpful.

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#5 Knifeblade

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Posted 25 August 2010 - 07:15 PM

Thanks, I'll delve into device manager and see if i find anything, I think you guys are right, I likely disabled some driver.

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 08:16 AM

I don't have a continuing problem with this, but now and then I'll find my screen brightly lit first thing in the morning or after a prolonged time away from my desk. One cause I've found is leaving certain programs open. The one I know for sure clogs it up is leaving a PowerPoint slide show open. That's a good thing because it leaves the image up on the screen if I get carried away and talk a long time between slide changes.

I haven't been able to pinpoint the others but am working on it.