Putting Computers in standby issue

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I run 2 machines with Asus A8V motherboards. If I put one machine in
standby mode all power in system seems to go off and power indicator
flashes no fans run including CPU fan and disk power light in
removable Drive tray goes out indicating no power to drive. Movement
of mouse brings it out of standby as required.


The other A8V when put in standby does as other systems I have do and
goes into standby but everything stays powered in machine all fans
spin and hard drive is powered.


Bios were compared and all settings are identical. Any clues as to
why this difference in the two machines?
 
identical hardware? its probably a driver or hardware piece that isn't going
into standby. OS settings for power are the same?
 
Hawkeye said:
I run 2 machines with Asus A8V motherboards. If I put one machine in
standby mode all power in system seems to go off and power indicator
flashes no fans run including CPU fan and disk power light in
removable Drive tray goes out indicating no power to drive. Movement
of mouse brings it out of standby as required.


The other A8V when put in standby does as other systems I have do and
goes into standby but everything stays powered in machine all fans
spin and hard drive is powered.


Bios were compared and all settings are identical.
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Are you SURE all settings are identical? It would be very easy to miss
something among the hundreds of menus and sub-menus. Try this:

Download shareware called cmossave. Copy the program to a DOS bootable
floppy disk. SAVE the current CMOS settings from the one where it goes into
standby and hard drive is powered. Then save (under a different file name)
current cmos settings from machine where all power seems to go off.

Then use the cmos restore program (cmosrest?) to put the cmos settings from
one machine into the other one. You shouldn't do any harm to your systems,
as long as you save the CMOS settings from BOTH of them to floppy first. At
worst, if restoring cmos settings from another machine doesn't work, you can
put it back the way it was in seconds. -Dave
 
Sounds a bit like the same problem I've seen with Hibernate.
I guarantee you there is a check box somewhere that is set
on one machine and not on the other. The one I finally found
totally eliminated the Hibernate function .. even though I could
set all the parameters. Also, I found that Hibernate responds
differently to different idle times. That is just amazing. When
I used 45 minutes, it worked as expected. At 2 hours, it rarely
worked.

johns
 
johns said:
Sounds a bit like the same problem I've seen with Hibernate.
I guarantee you there is a check box somewhere that is set
on one machine and not on the other. The one I finally found
totally eliminated the Hibernate function .. even though I could
set all the parameters. Also, I found that Hibernate responds
differently to different idle times. That is just amazing. When
I used 45 minutes, it worked as expected. At 2 hours, it rarely
worked.

johns
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i had a problem where the bios lost all the settings of my power, first when
i got the mobo the fans went silent, there was a light on the mobo still,
the power button was flashing still. when the mobo lost the settings, all
the fans were still goings. on further inspection of my bios settings i
couldnt originally find the part what controlled this setting until i
downloaded my manual. i looked up the power sextion of the bios, and tried
different settings until i found it: the suspend mode should be set to S3
(STR) only if you want the fans to cut out when you want to go to standby.
yes btw the mobo is an asus p4v8x-x very similar to your mobo hope this
helps
 
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