Hibernate: system re-hibernates if no mouse/kb activity

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Philip Pemberton

Hi,
I've enabled hibernation on my PC (running Win2K SP4 with latest security
patches), and have also enabled Wake-on-LAN and VNC to allow me to connect to
the router, wake the machine up, then VNC in and control it remotely.

This all works pretty well - I can wake up the machine fine, but after
about 15 minutes or so, the machine re-hibernates. If someone moves the mouse
or presses a key on the keyboard, this doesn't happen. Does anyone know what
might be happening, or how to stop this behaviour?

The power profile is set to Home/Office Desk, and Hibernate After and
Suspend After are disabled.

Thanks.
 
Try Power management tab on the NIC in Device Manager. Also why is
hibernate enabled if you don't want it to hibernate?
 
Bob said:
Try Power management tab on the NIC in Device Manager. Also why is
hibernate enabled if you don't want it to hibernate?
Click to expand...

You seem to have misunderstood me. I *DO* want it to hibernate, but what I
don't want it to do is automatically re-hibernate a few minutes after being
resumed when there's no kb/mouse activity.

I'm using it as a PVR and I want it to resume before each recording and
hibernate after it's finished. What I don't want is for the machine to resume,
then ten minutes later Windows forces the machine to hibernate again (because
there's been no keyboard/mouse activity).

On a laptop, that's a useful feature (if the power button gets knocked while
the laptop is packed, at least it'll switch back off if I'm not doing
anything), but on a desktop it's an annoyance and there doesn't seem to be any
way to turn it off...

Thanks.
 
Bob said:
If there is Hard drive activity, it shouldn't be hibernating.
Click to expand...

But it is...
Like I said, either WoL or DVB WebScheduler wakes up the machine, then 5-15
minutes later (I haven't measured the exact time), if there's been no keyboard
or mouse activity, Windows hibernates again.

I really have gone through the entire Control Panel, including most of the
stuff in Device Manager, and I really don't have any idea what could be
happening. I've searched through support.microsoft.com and Google and found
precisely nothing mentioning this behaviour. I've even checked the BIOS -
nothing...

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
 
Here is a thought. Log on, set up Hibernation to happen after an
extraordinary long time and apply. That way you should reset whatever
time it currently using. In my experience the Power settings of the last
logged on user is what is used when the system has no active logged in
profile.
 
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