Has anyone ever had their hibernate and standby modes removed? For whatever reason, I can no longer do either on my laptop. No, I never "de-selected" any option to disable these functions nor did I ever delete anything to do with them. Yes, I have tried running the troubleshoot, Dell's support, and Microsoft's website--all have yielded jack! The specifics: I'm on my Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook. I'm running Windows XP Service pack 2. Anyone with a laptop would know that when you close the lid/screen, the computer will standby (or whatever the default option you have). If you do this, after x-amount of minutes, the computer will hibernate. Yeah, that doesn't happen anymore. If I were to close the lid, the computer remains on and if I were to open the lid again, no picture would appear. I would have to hold the power button to shut down. Anyone with a Dell knows about the Quickset program they have. I've tried checking off "Enable Hibernate" and selecting all the options I want (standby when you close the lid; power button means off; suspend key means hibernate) but it never remains that way. It's as if i never ran Quickset. I've also done the control panel > appearence and themes > display > screen saver > power. The hibernate tab is NOT there. I run Norton 2006, ZoneAlarm, adaware, spybot every week and update probably more frequently. No viruses or anything else. So yes, I'm very frustrated because this is a big deal since I use my laptop as often as I do (school and work). Any tips, suggestions on how to rectify this? Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Sounds like a virus way. Once this opens their is two ways to fix it. Run a windows xp cd and repair or reinstall windows. This has happened to me due to viruses and usually installing works than trying to repair.:>
Try this also while im thinking bout it. Right click on anywhere on a blank part of the desktop. Select properties. Go to screen saver tab. Right on the bottom of the screensaver tab their is power options. It syas montor power. Left click on power button. Theirs all ya power options. Try that? This is if ya have xp:>
you can do a repair from the windows xp disk if you have one....you wont lose anything on desktop but maybe you uninstalled something and took that with it cause a virus was attached to it....i have that happen to people i know everyday.....repair,,,not restore....this can be done by putting the windows xp disk in cdrom drive and restarting pc...when prompted hit the R key ok peace btw after you repair windows all drivers have to be updated and or installed again
Wow! When it rains it pours! Anyway, I've heard about the virus. I have norton 2006 and zone alarm suite--all of them are updated regularly and scanned more frequently. No viruses have been discovered. @ Ozzy: if I reinstall/repair Windows, won't that basically reformat the PC and subsuquently I lose everything? @ Scuba: Yes, I have the advanced Tab but under the "power buttons" section, my options are very limited. For the option: "When I close the lid of my portable computer" the only available action is "Do Nothing." And for "When I press the power button on my computer:" the only available option is 'Do Nothing,' 'Ask me what to do' and 'Shut down.' @ Rugripper: thanks! That sounds like it makes sense but again, I'm very anal about the performance of the computer so I religiously check and scan both desktop and laptop. Nothing ever came up. BUT for the sake of argument, if there was a virus and whatever it was attached to was removed, I would still be affected by it, correct? If so, then that's what I'm suffering from? Thanks very much for the replies!
@ Mr_Pink View this link and see if anything there can help you. Also, what are you bios settings for power management? http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302414
Yes....so back up everything important including latest drivers on cd and then reinstall. Sometimes clean install is a lot easier than tracking a prob down. And like rugripper and I have said...a virus might have been attached to the hiobernate function and it went bye bye when norton deleted the virus. Scuba is right bout the bios. Check that and make sure their is no option for hibernate to be disabled. If it is enable and see what happens. :>
Thanks! But could you please explain a little about the BIOS setting? How do i get to it? Unless I'm mistaken, is it with the MMC? If it is, I don't know about that either lol.
Depending on your PC/Laptop you would enter it during the initial boot-up by using the F2 key or possible the DEL key. Every machine is different so try the F2 key first. Look for something that shows Power Managment, (APM or Advanced Power Management.)
