Windows 2000 Standby

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Clickety-Click typed:
I note that M$ state that Standby is not possible on a W2K machine
unless there is the presence of batteries, ie the machine is a laptop.

Is this strictly true. Do some vendors machines support Standby? If
so, does anyone know which ones?

I've searched the web for a bolt on to W2K to enable standby, but it
doesn't seem to be possible on older machines.

TIA
Graham

Try a more relevant newsgroup perhaps?

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In ,
Clickety-Click typed:
I note that M$ state that Standby is not possible on a W2K machine
unless there is the presence of batteries, ie the machine is a laptop.

Is this strictly true. Do some vendors machines support Standby? If
so, does anyone know which ones?

I've searched the web for a bolt on to W2K to enable standby, but it
doesn't seem to be possible on older machines.

TIA
Graham

Try a more relevant newsgroup perhaps?
I thought I had. Is this NG not for 'vendors'? Are there no 'vendors' on
here then?


not that will want to post here, its not a particularly friendly group
anymore, unfortunately.

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I note that M$ state that Standby is not possible on a W2K machine
unless there is the presence of batteries, ie the machine is a laptop.

You sure? All my W2k machines do standby (STR) ?

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In ,
Clickety-Click typed:
I note that M$ state that Standby is not possible on a W2K machine
unless there is the presence of batteries, ie the machine is a laptop.

Is this strictly true. Do some vendors machines support Standby? If
so, does anyone know which ones?

I've searched the web for a bolt on to W2K to enable standby, but it
doesn't seem to be possible on older machines.

TIA
Graham

But, to answer your question, standby *is* possible on 2k. It is on this
desktop, and on my laptop.

I think you need a ACPI PC, and that depends on the motherboard..


W2K IIRC, does support Hibernate, which is the same as standby, except the
ram is saved to disk and the computer totally shut down...

HTH

Ben

"Chris" wrote in message ...

You can't modify your windows setup to become acpi compliant after
installation unfortunately.

Are you sure about this? Reason I ask is you can definitely go the
other way (ACPI- Standard PC) via the device manager "update driver"
dialog. I have had to do this on a machine I was using for Cubase in
order to get rid of the dreaded IRQ sharing. It certainly appeared
that changing back to ACPI would have been possible, though I've never
tried it.

cheers,
LH