Power Saving features inactive

I bought recently a powerful, power hungry and not inexpensive workstation
equipped with Windows XP Professional.

To my surprise the power saving features (Standby and Hibernation), which I
frequently use, were not working; thus I rejected the computer.

The retailer does not consider this as being a fault because: â??while these
are indeed features supported by Microsoft Windows, the ability for the
equipment to enter these modes is dependent on the capabilities of the
hardwareâ??(sic!).

Are there any â??abilities of the equipmentâ?? not â??dependent on the
capabilities of the hardwareâ???

Am I not entitled to expect that a workstation advertised as being equipped
with Windows XP has the power saving features active?

Thank you.

Graham
Fri May 19 18:32:40 CDT 2006

Dan wrote:
> I bought recently a powerful, power hungry and not inexpensive workstation
> equipped with Windows XP Professional.

This is an x64 newsgroup? Is this an x64 problem?

> To my surprise the power saving features (Standby and Hibernation), which I
> frequently use, were not working.

This can occur when you don't have the correct video drivers installed.
Of course, if they aren't enabled, they won't work either.

Graham.

dan
Sat May 20 01:48:01 CDT 2006

I should add that the manufacturer told me that this behaviour is by design.

So, I could rephrase my question: should an ad which specifies Microsoft
Windows XP Professional as the OS, not specify also what features are
excluded (if any), in this case the power saving features?

Thank you,
Dan

Graham
Sat May 20 13:25:50 CDT 2006

Dan wrote:

> I should add that the manufacturer told me that this behaviour is by design.

Either there is something exceedingly unusual about this system, or they
don't know what they are doing. Is this some fly-by-night operattion you
bought this from, or one of the first or second tier brands?

> So, I could rephrase my question: should an ad which specifies Microsoft
> Windows XP Professional as the OS, not specify also what features are
> excluded (if any), in this case the power saving features?

Why should it? There are many features of an operating system which
aren't available on particular machines. I've not seen many ads
proclaiming the absence of SCSI for notebook computers for example, but
the support for SCSI is still in the operating system despite the fact
the notebook doesn't contain any SCSI hardware.

Graham.

Patrick
Sat May 20 20:11:55 CDT 2006

The suspense is killing me!
Who is the manufacturer of this fine machine?


"Dan" <dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9102D1EE-25F4-4616-96E1-F405065E0C4E@microsoft.com...
> I bought recently a powerful, power hungry and not inexpensive workstation
> equipped with Windows XP Professional.
>
> To my surprise the power saving features (Standby and Hibernation), which
I
> frequently use, were not working; thus I rejected the computer.
>
> The retailer does not consider this as being a fault because: "while these
> are indeed features supported by Microsoft Windows, the ability for the
> equipment to enter these modes is dependent on the capabilities of the
> hardware"(sic!).
>
> Are there any "abilities of the equipment" not "dependent on the
> capabilities of the hardware"?
>
> Am I not entitled to expect that a workstation advertised as being
equipped
> with Windows XP has the power saving features active?
>
> Thank you.
>
>

dan
Mon May 22 04:14:01 CDT 2006

I would really very much appreciate if you could give me a valid example.
Because I'm not sure this one, with SCSI, is that good: when the ad says
that the hard drive is SATA or whatever one knows that it is not SCSI.
Dan

"Graham" wrote:

> Dan wrote:
>
> > I should add that the manufacturer told me that this behaviour is by design.
>
> Either there is something exceedingly unusual about this system, or they
> don't know what they are doing. Is this some fly-by-night operattion you
> bought this from, or one of the first or second tier brands?
>
> > So, I could rephrase my question: should an ad which specifies Microsoft
> > Windows XP Professional as the OS, not specify also what features are
> > excluded (if any), in this case the power saving features?
>
> Why should it? There are many features of an operating system which
> aren't available on particular machines. I've not seen many ads
> proclaiming the absence of SCSI for notebook computers for example, but
> the support for SCSI is still in the operating system despite the fact
> the notebook doesn't contain any SCSI hardware.
>
> Graham.
>

dan
Mon May 22 05:03:01 CDT 2006

You made my day Patrick!

In fact, your two lines became the cheer-up for any matter, not only for
that
never-rest-leaf-blower-Really-Powerful-PC-Workstation-by-a-popular-manufacturer-we use(d)-to-praise issue...



"Patrick" wrote:

> The suspense is killing me!
> Who is the manufacturer of this fine machine?
>
>
> "Dan" <dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9102D1EE-25F4-4616-96E1-F405065E0C4E@microsoft.com...
> > I bought recently a powerful, power hungry and not inexpensive workstation
> > equipped with Windows XP Professional.
> >
> > To my surprise the power saving features (Standby and Hibernation), which
> I
> > frequently use, were not working; thus I rejected the computer.
> >
> > The retailer does not consider this as being a fault because: "while these
> > are indeed features supported by Microsoft Windows, the ability for the
> > equipment to enter these modes is dependent on the capabilities of the
> > hardware"(sic!).
> >
> > Are there any "abilities of the equipment" not "dependent on the
> > capabilities of the hardware"?
> >
> > Am I not entitled to expect that a workstation advertised as being
> equipped
> > with Windows XP has the power saving features active?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
>
>
>