When network connection is active laptop won't go tostandby/hibernate modes

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I have a Dell laptop with Windows XP Home SP2 installed. No matter if

I have either one of the three types of network connections active

(LAN, internal WLAN, or USB WLAN), the laptop will not enter into

standby or hibernate modes. I don't have to disable the network

adaptors, they just have to be disconnected. Then the power saving

modes works. Also, both modes work if I execute them manually either

using the power-off button or sleep button. I had a shared drive and

disconnected but I think I might have a shortcut somewhere on the

desktop that might prevent the modes from executing. Is this possible?

Is a shortcut considered an open file across the network?
 
When network connection is active laptop won't go to standby/hibernate modes

kd833,



See of this works.



Go to Device Manager and choose the network connection by double clicking on

it.

Then go to the Power Management tab

Make sure that the "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby"

is not checked.





Rui



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>I have a Dell laptop with Windows XP Home SP2 installed. No matter if

> I have either one of the three types of network connections active

> (LAN, internal WLAN, or USB WLAN), the laptop will not enter into

> standby or hibernate modes. I don't have to disable the network

> adaptors, they just have to be disconnected. Then the power saving

> modes works. Also, both modes work if I execute them manually either

> using the power-off button or sleep button. I had a shared drive and

> disconnected but I think I might have a shortcut somewhere on the

> desktop that might prevent the modes from executing. Is this possible?

> Is a shortcut considered an open file across the network?
 
I discovered the problem. There's a driver attached to all my network

adaptors called QoS Packet Scheduler. This thing must have been

sending network heartbeats, thus keeping the laptop from entering into

the standby and hibernate modes. I didn't uninstall it I just disabled

it from the network adaptor properties. That did the trick.





On Mar 31, 4:12 pm, "ruic" wrote:

> kd833,

>

> See of this works.

>

> Go to Device Manager and choose the network connection by double clickingon

> it.

> Then go to the Power Management tab

> Make sure that the "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby"

> is not checked.

>

> Rui

>

> "kd833" wrote in message

>

> news:1474cb6f-3c9e-4d2f-876e-cb8b862f5bda@10g2000yqq.googlegroups.com...

>

>

>

> >I have a Dell laptop with Windows XP Home SP2 installed. No matter if

> > I have either one of the three types of network connections active

> > (LAN, internal WLAN, or USB WLAN), the laptop will not enter into

> > standby or hibernate modes. I don't have to disable the network

> > adaptors, they just have to be disconnected. Then the power saving

> > modes works. Also, both modes work if I execute them manually either

> > using the power-off button or sleep button. I had a shared drive and

> > disconnected but I think I might have a shortcut somewhere on the

> > desktop that might prevent the modes from executing. Is this possible?

> > Is a shortcut considered an open file across the network?- Hide quoted text -

>

> - Show quoted text -
 
Lessons learned: Yet another glich was discovered. I have a mixed home

network of XP and Vista PCs. It seems that the Vista PC was sending

NBT packets to the XP PC having the power management issue. The XP PC

would respond to these packets every 5-10 seconds. Thereby,

interupting the XP PC from entering into standby mode. So I disabled

the NETBIOS/TCP-IP on the Vista PC and the XP PC consistantly goes

into standby. Go figure. I guess I don't really need NETBIOS/TCP-IP,

so I disabled it on all PCs.





On Mar 31, 5:32 pm, kd833 wrote:

> I discovered the problem. There's a driver attached to all my network

> adaptors called QoS Packet Scheduler. This thing must have been

> sending network heartbeats, thus keeping the laptop from entering into

> the standby and hibernate modes. I didn't uninstall it I just disabled

> it from the network adaptor properties. That did the trick.

>

> On Mar 31, 4:12 pm, "ruic" wrote:

>

>

>

> > kd833,

>

> > See of this works.

>

> > Go to Device Manager and choose the network connection by double clicking on

> > it.

> > Then go to the Power Management tab

> > Make sure that the "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby"

> > is not checked.

>

> > Rui

>

> > "kd833" wrote in message

>

> >news:1474cb6f-3c9e-4d2f-876e-cb8b862f5bda@10g2000yqq.googlegroups.com...

>

> > >I have a Dell laptop with Windows XP Home SP2 installed. No matter if

> > > I have either one of the three types of network connections active

> > > (LAN, internal WLAN, or USB WLAN), the laptop will not enter into

> > > standby or hibernate modes. I don't have to disable the network

> > > adaptors, they just have to be disconnected. Then the power saving

> > > modes works. Also, both modes work if I execute them manually either

> > > using the power-off button or sleep button. I had a shared drive and

> > > disconnected but I think I might have a shortcut somewhere on the

> > > desktop that might prevent the modes from executing. Is this possible?

> > > Is a shortcut considered an open file across the network?- Hide quoted text -

>

> > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -

>

> - Show quoted text -
 
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