My my line of thought is that I have seen where Windows will ignore what
is in the BIOS sometimes. So perhaps this update changed something and
now the laptop is doing what it is based on BIOS settings.
Which then would be a fix. :)
Winterlight wrote:
At 08:34 AM 7/19/2005, you wrote:
When my i8200 is manually "suspended", I must push the power switch to
wake it up again. Otherwise it wakes on keyboard or mouse activity
from simple sleeping.
Well, my latitude didn't behave like this before the patch, but now I
can not let it <stand by> or it requires the power switch to bring it
back to life. If I restore my backup image it goes back to behaving like
it did before, which tells me it has nothing to do with hardware.
The patch has changed something in the OS that effects laptop Power
Settings but doesn't appear as a option. I have read through what the
roll up does and I don't see any mention of Power. I' guessing that this
is a unintended bug
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;900345
After thinking about it, I realized that this laptop has three jobs,
Print Server, extra backup storage, and I use it to upload a weekly
backup with ftp.
The only time I launch Internet explorer is to get updates that I don't
really need. I run System Works firewall and anti virus in the
background, probably don't need them. But in any case I am going back to
my image file and forget about any other updates.
Are you sure that all the "Allow this device to wake" settings are
still enabled in the NIC setup, etc...?
Ben Ruset wrote:
Check your BIOS settings as well. Maybe something there activated a
sleep mode.
Winterlight wrote:
I have a old 233CP Latitude that I use as a print server, and a few
other things. It has been running 2K SP4 great for almost a year. It
is plugged into power with no battery.
I just did MS updates which now includes the new 2K roll up patch.
After I did the patch the laptop keeps going into a standby mode
that is so deep that I have to push the power button to get it back
on line. My fist thought was that they have changed a setting in the
power setting but none of the Power settings relating to this have
changed. The only thing that changed was that it required a log in
from standby mode which I just unchecked.
And yet instead of just going into a standby mode that a print
request, or a keyboard / mouse movement will bring it out of, it
goes so deep I have to press the power mode button to use it. I am
about ready to restore my backup because as is, it is unusable as a
print server... any ideas? This sucks, why can't MS ask you before
it changes stuff like this!
