My dell laptop does not have the option in control panel/power options
to go to stand by or to hibernate.
I went to Add/Remove, Windows Components, and made sure that admin tools
and maintenace (I think that was the name of it) was installed, which it
wasn't so I installed it and thought, great, now I should have it. But
it is still not there.
The only way I can power down the computer is to turn it off and then do
a cold boot when I want to use it again. Because it has an over-heating
problem (typical of my particular model dell laptop ;-( , I feel that I
have got to turn it off to cool down or else the drives keep spinning
and the heat builds up. It has already fried one memory chip, which I
did have diagnosed and replaced by a Dell store in my area, so I feel
safe that he knew of what he speaks. That is in fact how I found out
that overheating is a problem with this model laptop.
Does anyone know how I can get the power options I need to handle sleep
mode and hibernation?
Thanks so much for the info
Joanne