Standby - can't wake the computer up

Running Win98SE, and I've lost the ability to get my computer to wake
up once it's in standby mode.

The feature was working fine -- into standby; monitor goes dark;
computer fans kept running; hit anykey or move the mouse, and it wakes
up. It does everything now except the last one.

It's a mystery why it started doing this: the only program I've
installed lately was a new version of Weather Pulse; I've removed that
and gone back to the previous version, but no change. I've also tried
altering the power management settings in the display, turning them on
and off to see if they re-set themselves; no luck.

It's clear that the computer "hears" the keyboard in some way: if I do
a Ctrl+Alt+Del -- hitting the Del a few times -- the thing reboots in
the normal way.

Any suggestions what else to try?

 

If you have a PnP BIOS, the BIOS will do the configuring itself.
Check the BIOS setup menu
On the Advanced menu
Boot Configuration
Plug & Play O/S = No (Lets the BIOS configure all the devices in the system.)
Save & Exit

See if this helps.

 

Thanks for the suggestion Liz; didn't appear to work, though -- I
went into the BIOS set-up, and it was already arranged that way.

Is it worth booting with PnP O/S enabled, then switching back to "No"
again -- or does that risk really screwing things up?

(The loss of standby is a pain, but I'll just live without it if I risk
wrecking something else.)

 

Computer Does Not Resume to Recognize USB Device from Standby
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=189591

 

Meant to add:

Cannot Wake Computer from Standby with USB
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=264386

 

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:54:51 GMT, °Mike° wrote

Thanks Mike, but that doesn't seem to be it: those deal with problems
of USB keyboards and mice, and both of those are on old-fashioned ports
on my set-up.

Thanks for reminding me that I need to poke around the Knowledge Base
articles a bit more, though.

 

Have you tried a scanreg /restore from DOS?

 

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:28:26 GMT, °Mike° wrote

That's a thought; will give that a go.

--
Cheers, Harvey

Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years;
Southern England for the past 21 years.
(for e-mail, change harvey to whhvs)

 

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:28:26 GMT, °Mike° wrote

Tried it -- and it worked!

The only thing I can think of that I installed in that period was a new
version of Weather Pulse; must have done something, but god knows
what.

Many, many thanks.

 

Great. And you're welcome.