Computer goes into standby, but will not wake up

Hi
I have set my computer to standby in the power schemes.

It goes into standby as set, but will not wake up. I have to hold the power button in on my tower to shut down and then I get the "you did not shut down windows properally" and get the scan disk for errors.

Can anyone tell me why it won't wake up? this used to wake up by moving my mouse.
I have checked both "powerloadprofile" in the MSCONFIG. Before doing this it would not go into standby mode.

Thanks for any help.
Geri

 

Hope you are running Win98 SE --
this is the only reference from Microsoft I could find:

When you suspend computer, computer may stop responding.

CAUSE - name of swapfile used by Windows 98 can be changed by
adding a PagingFile= line to the 386Enh section of System.ini
file. If the path specified for the swapfile includes a
lowercase drive letter, it can cause Windows to occasionally
hang during a suspend.

RESOLUTION - change the lowercase drive letter specified for
the swapfile path in the System.ini file to uppercase.

To do this:
Click Start/Run, type msconfig, and click OK.
Click System.ini tab, double-click 386Enh to expand the branch,
click PagingFile=, and then click Edit.
Change the drive letter to uppercase. For example, change the
following line from
PagingFile=d:\win386.swp
to
PagingFile=D:\win386.swp.

Click Apply, click OK, and click Yes to restart.

STATUS - Microsoft confirmed this problem.

MORE INFORMATION
The I/O subsystem driver (IOS) in Windows 98 (Ios.vxd) attempts to determine the paging device so it can mark it as a device that cannot be powered off until interrupts have been disabled. IOS does this by retrieving the path for the swapfile, stripping out the drive letter from this string, and subtracting the ASCII value for an uppercase letter "A," to determine the drive number. It assumes the drive letter is always specified using an uppercase letter, and does not convert lowercase drive letters to uppercase before subtracting to determine the drive number.

If IOS cannot determine the paging device, it will cause the drive to be powered off early in the suspend phase when interrupts are still enabled. After the paging drive is powered off, Windows 98 Second Edition attempts to flush the drive. If at this point there is still cached data that has not been written to disk, the attempt to flush
the drive will fail because the disk is powered down and cannot
accept I/O requests.

The FAT file system will attempt to display an error message about
this failure; however, the display device is already powered off
at this point, so it will appear that the machine is hung.