My wife's desktop machine is a HP a1730n running Vista Home Premium. After
putting it in standby, after a short while, it comes back up to operation.
Most of the time it does this but sometimes, it will go all night staying in
standby. I asked this group about this and got the advice to go to advanced
settings in Power Options and change the multimedia setting "when showing
multimedia" to "allow the computer to sleep". This seemed to fix it for a
short while and then it reverted back to not staying in standby. I am
looking for some more advanced wisdom on this problem and hope for a
solution!

Thanks in advance.
Bascom King

Did you apply all of the following?

Go to Advance Power Settings.

Set hard drive to turn off a minute or 2 before sleep.

Set Hybrid and Hibernate modes to "Never"

Under USB settings select "Disable"

Under Multimedia select "Allow ....."

"Bascom King" wrote in message
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My wife's desktop machine is a HP a1730n running Vista Home Premium.
After putting it in standby, after a short while, it comes back up to
operation. Most of the time it does this but sometimes, it will go all
night staying in standby. I asked this group about this and got the
advice to go to advanced settings in Power Options and change the
multimedia setting "when showing multimedia" to "allow the computer to
sleep". This seemed to fix it for a short while and then it reverted back
to not staying in standby. I am looking for some more advanced wisdom on
this problem and hope for a solution!

Thanks in advance.
Bascom King

IIRC, this is a recognised problem - and it may have been addressed in SP1.
I certainly know that problems where a machine wouldn't come out of sleep is
an issue.

I could be due to your mouse of keyboard or some other peripheral - some of
these periodically send signals back to the PC regardless of any activity -
enough to convince windows that the machine is back in use. Not really sure
you can do about this though, short of changing hardware.

When following up to a previous post, you don't need to include everything.
Snip out what's not relevant. But do include what is relevant.

"CJM" wrote in message
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IIRC, this is a recognised problem - and it may have been addressed in
SP1. I certainly know that problems where a machine wouldn't come out of
sleep is an issue.

I could be due to your mouse of keyboard or some other peripheral - some
of these periodically send signals back to the PC regardless of any
activity - enough to convince windows that the machine is back in use. Not
really sure you can do about this though, short of changing hardware.

Bascom King;632651 Wrote:
My wife's desktop machine is a HP a1730n running Vista Home Premium.
After
putting it in standby, after a short while, it comes back up to
operation.
Most of the time it does this but sometimes, it will go all night
staying in
standby. I asked this group about this and got the advice to go to
advanced
settings in Power Options and change the multimedia setting "when
showing
multimedia" to "allow the computer to sleep". This seemed to fix it for
a
short while and then it reverted back to not staying in standby. I am
looking for some more advanced wisdom on this problem and hope for a
solution!

Thanks in advance.
Bascom King

Hi Bascom King,

See if this can help you find out what is waking your computer up. I
would check your network device Power Management settings and your BIOS
"Wake on LAN" settings to start with. These are sometimes the culprit.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/63...-problems.html

Shawn


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When following up to a previous post, please do not top-post, since it is
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Actually top-posting is the norm for MS newsgroups.

"CJM" wrote in message
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"Bob" wrote in message
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When following up to a previous post, you don't need to include
everything. Snip out what's not relevant. But do include what is
relevant.


When following up to a previous post, please do not top-post, since it is
contrary to the normal flow of reading.

People in glass houses.....

Hello Brink! Thank you for the most informative URL below. This is by far
the most comprehensive information on various
Vista sleep problems I have seen. It looks like I may have already solved
the problem from what I learned.

Thanks again,
Bascom King

"Brink" wrote in message
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Bascom King;632651 Wrote:
My wife's desktop machine is a HP a1730n running Vista Home Premium.
After
putting it in standby, after a short while, it comes back up to
operation.
Most of the time it does this but sometimes, it will go all night
staying in
standby. I asked this group about this and got the advice to go to
advanced
settings in Power Options and change the multimedia setting "when
showing
multimedia" to "allow the computer to sleep". This seemed to fix it for
a
short while and then it reverted back to not staying in standby. I am
looking for some more advanced wisdom on this problem and hope for a
solution!

Thanks in advance.
Bascom King

Hi Bascom King,

See if this can help you find out what is waking your computer up. I
would check your network device Power Management settings and your BIOS
"Wake on LAN" settings to start with. These are sometimes the culprit.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/63...-problems.html

Shawn


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Bascom King;633803 Wrote:
Hello Brink! Thank you for the most informative URL below. This is by
far
the most comprehensive information on various
Vista sleep problems I have seen. It looks like I may have already
solved
the problem from what I learned.

Thanks again,
Bascom King

"Brink" wrote in message
...

Bascom King;632651 Wrote:

Hi Bascom King,

See if this can help you find out what is waking your computer up. I
would check your network device Power Management settings and your
BIOS
"Wake on LAN" settings to start with. These are sometimes the
culprit.


http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/63...-problems.html

Shawn


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Your welcome Bascom King. I'm glad that it was able to help you. Thank
you for the feedback.

Shawn


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Actually top-posting is the norm for MS newsgroups.


Inline or bottom-posted comments are recommended across the whole of USENET.

Just because these are MS newsgroups doesn't mean you need to adopt MS's
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