Time to get your mom her own computer.
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Guy Olinger
Apex, NC, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charity" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: Sleeping box
>
> I run my own batch programs that do the caching of the text client.
The
> BIOS (dell's) does not have an option to disable power settings. The
> only thing I have been able to come up with is it is somehow tied to
Mom
> installing/removing her games. This all started when she installed
the
> latest Myst, that's why I had her remove Myst and reinstall W98. That
> worked, until today as I mentioned. When I asked her, she said she
has
> installed one other small game and removed a couple of others. It's
> like there is some magic file out there that is being corrupted by her
> game installs/removals.
>
> Charity
>
>
> Andrew Stahl wrote:
> >
> > Are you running any caching programs? Are you using the text client
or
> > screensaver version?
> > you may want to disable the power settings in the bios.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Charity" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "SETI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 4:20 PM
> > Subject: Sleeping box
> >
> > >
> > > For the last year + my Mom's W98 box has been running seti w/o any
> > > problem. Recently, however, it has started going to sleep when it
> > > finishes a wu rather than doing the final step of moving on. If
you
> > > notice it and press return, it will wake back up and switch on.
Last
> > > weekend I had her reinstall W98, and it seemed to stop this, but
now
> > > again this weekend it has fallen asleep.
> > >
> > > We have checked the power settings, and it is not set to sleep.
Any
> > > ideas?
> > >
> > > Charity
> > >
>
>
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