Standby randomly works, why?

Hi All,

I have a laptop and sometime standby option works well, put the lappy to sleep in a matter of seconds. Other times it just stay stuck on the "light blue screen" when its about to enter the standby mode (can't recall what it says exactly), but just before it shuts down to sleep, and I basically give up after about 30 - 60 sec, and force shutdown (hold down power button).

Is this a glitch on Win XP or could there be something preventing my system to go in standby mode.

I haven't done anything different to when it is working ok, in that I seems to have the same programs open.

It just seeems it is randomly happening.

Cheers

 

It could be all manner of things.

Are you drivers up to date?

Is your bios up to date?

Tom

 

At a guess I would say some driver may need to be updated, but is it really dependant on the drivers. I thought putting a computer in standby would have no bearing on the drivers.

If that is the case then it sounds like Wind XP is buggy?

Just my thoughts.

 

To be honest whenever I see a computer with problems going into standby it is normally because of drivers or an out of date bios.

We get systems in at work with standby problems all the time.

Normally updating any wireless lan, lan or chipset driver would be the first place I would look.

Windows XP is a mature product now and as long as it is fully patched I find it very reliable and not buggy.

Tom

 

Thanks Tom, might try with the BIOS, I know that is definitely not up to date.