Remote Desktop freezes host in standby

I'm spent. I can't make heads or tails of why Remote Desktop Connection is causing my machine to freeze. As long as the host computer has not gone into standby, I am able to access it from the client machine without any problems. If the host is shut down, I can use WOL from the client to fire it up and then access using RDC no problem. BUT, if the host is in standby when I try to connect via RDC, the host starts to resume (blinky LED lights!) but freezes before anything shows on the host's display and I have to hard-reboot to recover. Meanwhile on the client, I am kicked out of the RDC window with no error message.

I've seen postings here (Arie, where are you?, please help!) that a similar problem occurred for a user with an NVIDIA graphics driver. My machine has an Intel 82865G Graphics Controller (that I just updated), so I'm SOL on that fix, right?

Thanks
-Ian

Windows XP Professional SP2
Dell Optiplex 170L Pentium 4

 

Hi and welcome to the BBS,
In standby the system is "putting itself to sleep ". There needs to be a very good connection between the OS and the computer's BIOS for it to work as expected. Trying to get the computer to bring itself out of standby using Remote Desktop may be pushing the boundries a little far.

Some computers run standby well, but if I find standby crashes I just turn standby off. It may not be Windows, the graphics drivers, power settings or any other possible cause, just that the computer won't work that way unless it is made to work that way.

You can try some of the possible areas, but I would not bang my head on it too hard, you may just end up with a sore head One thing you may want to look at is a BIOS upgrade (read the information about the upgrade/s and see if any relate to power saving), although you are asking the computer to do something very specific.

Matt

 

You should check the setting of you NIC card. In device manager look at your Network (NIC) card and try changing the setting for powersaver modes. You should find something like this, Allow this device to be turned off to save power. or allow this device to bering the computer out of standby.

You may want to disle the NIC powersaver mode, or make sure it can bring it out of standby.