Syst. Standby works, Monitor & Hard disks off no

I can go to Power options, and tell System Standby to happen, and it does. Turn off Monitor and Hard Disks does not work. Only Home/Offiice Desk and Portable/Laptop are shown under Power schemes. There are 17 schemes in the registry. Only 0 through 6 have a name . CurrentPowerPolicy is set to 0, which is Home/Office Desk. the Description says "This scheme is suited to most home or desktop computers that are left plugged in all the time ". That seems to fit this computer. I like to have the monitor turn off and then the hard disk soon after. No standby. Can anyone help.

 

Check your bios/cmos setting under power managment.

 

This is a Compaq. There is only asking what to do in the BIOS if AC power goes off. It is set to "Stay Off ". This means I have to push the button on the front of the tower to restart. I guess they do not want me to change much in there. By the way my computer is set to ACPI Uniprocesser PC in Device Manager.

 

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Sounds ok so far. I'll throw in this MS link in case you haven't read it.

ACPI Compliance

 

Yes I have been to that site before. ACPI acts on System Standby, and that works. I have another computer without ACPI, and turn off Monitor and Hard Disks works, but not System Standby.