Standby Insomnia

I usually put my WinXP Home desktop into stanby when I won't be using it for
a few hours. i do so using Start | Turn off Computer | Standby

The computer goes to sleep. But occasionally it will spontaneously wake up
after a few minutes.

Any explanation?

Note that I have Power Options set as follows:

Turn off Monitor 10 minutes
Turn off Hard Drive 15 minutes
System Standby 15 minutes

Hibernate is not enabled

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PT

Ghostrider
Thu Jun 12 13:15:00 PDT 2008


PT wrote:

> I usually put my WinXP Home desktop into stanby when I won't be using it for
> a few hours. i do so using Start | Turn off Computer | Standby
>
> The computer goes to sleep. But occasionally it will spontaneously wake up
> after a few minutes.
>
> Any explanation?
>
> Note that I have Power Options set as follows:
>
> Turn off Monitor 10 minutes
> Turn off Hard Drive 15 minutes
> System Standby 15 minutes
>
> Hibernate is not enabled
>

But there are also a number of other factors that may take a computer
out of standby. What is the setting for WLan, or Wake-up LAN? Or for
a Wake-up Modem? Even a very sensitive mouse may respond to vibration
or slight jarring. Windows or Office Indexing will re-activate a hard
drive. Perhaps it could be better if the hard drive was left spinning.
Check the settings and play around with them.

Frank
Fri Jun 13 17:47:46 PDT 2008

"PT" <xyz@xyz.com> wrote in message
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>I usually put my WinXP Home desktop into stanby when I won't be using it
>for a few hours. i do so using Start | Turn off Computer | Standby
>
> The computer goes to sleep. But occasionally it will spontaneously wake
> up after a few minutes.
>
> Any explanation?
>
> Note that I have Power Options set as follows:
>
> Turn off Monitor 10 minutes
> Turn off Hard Drive 15 minutes
> System Standby 15 minutes


In my experience this is usually solved by turning the mouse on its back.

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Plato
Sat Jun 14 18:47:02 PDT 2008

PT wrote:
>
> I usually put my WinXP Home desktop into stanby when I won't be using it for
> a few hours. i do so using Start | Turn off Computer | Standby
>
> The computer goes to sleep. But occasionally it will spontaneously wake up
> after a few minutes.
>
> Any explanation?

Just the way things are. No problem.

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