System won't go into standby on its own

Can anyone tell me why my P4 machine won't go into standby mode on it's own?

- I have no screen saver set
- Monitor is set to go blank after three minutes, and works fine.
- Harddrive is not set to powerdown after any length of time.
- Standby is set to occur after 5 minutes, but never happens (ie, doesn't
standby then wake up... It just never goes into standby)
- Manually putting the PC into standby works fine and it seems to stay that
way for hours.
- Wake on LAN is disabled on my NIC and in BIOS
- "Allow this hardware to wake PC" is disabled on all hardware where this is
an option.
- There are no entries at all in the Event Viewer that seem to indicate a
problem.

My hardwa
- Northwood P4 2.6Ghz @3.15Ghz
- Asus P4C800E Dlx mainboard, onboard intel gigabit lan, Onboard SoundMax
audio.
- 2x 256meg OCZ PC4200 (DDR533) DDR memory
- 128meg ATI Radeon 9600 Pro video card
- MSI TV Anywhere master TV tuner card (currently not connected)
- Seagate 3120026A 120 ATA hard drive
- WD Raptor 36gig SATA hard drive
- Logitech MX700 mouse connected to USB
- Logetech wireless keyboard connected to PS/2

Softwa
- Windows XP Pro SP2
- Latest drivers for all hardware
- Alcohol 120%
- AVG antivirus
- Nero 6 Ultra Ed.
....plus more that shouldn't be starting until I choose to.


I'm assuming that there is some kind of hardware driver preventing StandBy,
but how to troubleshoot? What can I do to find out why it's not going into
StandBy mode?

Thx!!!

I'm assuming that there is some kind of hardware driver preventing
StandBy, but how to troubleshoot? What can I do to find out why it's not
going into StandBy mode?

Could also be a piece of software. To test this just load up msconfig and
disable all startup items and retest.
More info can also be found here...
http://www.infopackets.com/channels/...andby_mode.htm
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- Alceryes






"Noozer" wrote in message
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Can anyone tell me why my P4 machine won't go into standby mode on it's
own?

- I have no screen saver set
- Monitor is set to go blank after three minutes, and works fine.
- Harddrive is not set to powerdown after any length of time.
- Standby is set to occur after 5 minutes, but never happens (ie, doesn't
standby then wake up... It just never goes into standby)
- Manually putting the PC into standby works fine and it seems to stay
that way for hours.
- Wake on LAN is disabled on my NIC and in BIOS
- "Allow this hardware to wake PC" is disabled on all hardware where this
is an option.
- There are no entries at all in the Event Viewer that seem to indicate a
problem.

My hardwa
- Northwood P4 2.6Ghz @3.15Ghz
- Asus P4C800E Dlx mainboard, onboard intel gigabit lan, Onboard SoundMax
audio.
- 2x 256meg OCZ PC4200 (DDR533) DDR memory
- 128meg ATI Radeon 9600 Pro video card
- MSI TV Anywhere master TV tuner card (currently not connected)
- Seagate 3120026A 120 ATA hard drive
- WD Raptor 36gig SATA hard drive
- Logitech MX700 mouse connected to USB
- Logetech wireless keyboard connected to PS/2

Softwa
- Windows XP Pro SP2
- Latest drivers for all hardware
- Alcohol 120%
- AVG antivirus
- Nero 6 Ultra Ed.
...plus more that shouldn't be starting until I choose to.


I'm assuming that there is some kind of hardware driver preventing
StandBy, but how to troubleshoot? What can I do to find out why it's not
going into StandBy mode?

Thx!!!

I never had much luck with MSConfig when trying to fix problems, but this
time it worked great!

Turned out to be a piece of software called DTNotes. Basically a stickynote
program for your desktop. Once that was stopped the machine when to standby
with no problem.

Thx!

"Alceryes" wrote in message
link.net...
I'm assuming that there is some kind of hardware driver preventing
StandBy, but how to troubleshoot? What can I do to find out why it's not
going into StandBy mode?

Could also be a piece of software. To test this just load up msconfig and
disable all startup items and retest.