Solve : Standby Problems?

1.	Solve : Standby Problems?
Answer» Sometimes (about 50%) when my COMPUTER comes out of 'Standby' mode, the MONITOR displays 'No Signal'. The monitor is OK at all other times including when coming out of 'Hibernate' mode. Anyone any ideas please?Don't use standby. Instead you can set the display and hd to power down after a defined period of inactivity. It will always work properly and is easier on your system.None of the Windows power saving features work...Well - as a rule the individual settings in power options are okay, but it's absolutely true that Hibernate & Sleep were simply never perfected by MS and cause problems on some systems.Quote from: Allan on January 16, 2010, 03:05:28 PM Well - as a rule the individual settings in power options are okay, but it's absolutely true that Hibernate & Sleep were simply never perfected by MS and cause problems on some systems. Actually, they both work fine. it's the HARDWARE manufacturers that make their hardware tell windows, "yeah, I support this feature and that feature" and then windows assumes, "oh hey, it supports this feature" because, you know, it just asked it. Then it goes to use that feature. Except the hardware only pretends to support it. If a piece of hardware, when asked, "say, do you support mode?" and the response is, "why YES, I do" is it not then, a safe assumption that possibly using that mode would work? half of the power management issues that occur are problems with the hardware pretending to support features that they actually don't support, and windows trying to use them. laptops in general are not as bad with this; since battery life is one of the major selling points, manufacturers make a point of both telling windows they support various power management features in addition to actually supporting them. For desktops, however, low power usage isn't a major selling point so sometimes they just kind of pretend in order to meet certain logo requirements.Quote None of the Windows power saving features work... Ditto. Waste of time.Quote from: BC_Programmer on January 16, 2010, 08:23:11 PM Actually, they both work fine. it's the hardware manufacturers that make their hardware tell windows, "yeah, I support this feature and that feature" and then windows assumes, "oh hey, it supports this feature" because, you know, it just asked it. Then it goes to use that feature. Except the hardware only pretends to support it. If a piece of hardware, when asked, "say, do you support <BLANK> mode?" and the response is, "why yes, I do" is it not then, a safe assumption that possibly using that mode would work? half of the power management issues that occur are problems with the hardware pretending to support features that they actually don't support, and windows trying to use them. I agree. Power saving features will work on many, but not all, systems. So, I'd encourage everybody to try them. If they don't work, then forget it. However, if Standby and/or Hibernation do not work, then you can still try what Allan said, Quote from: Allan on January 16, 2010, 01:02:10 PM Don't use standby. Instead you can set the display and hd to power down after a defined period of inactivity. It will always work properly and is easier on your system.

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Sometimes (about 50%) when my COMPUTER comes out of 'Standby' mode, the MONITOR displays 'No Signal'. The monitor is OK at all other times including when coming out of 'Hibernate' mode. Anyone any ideas please?Don't use standby. Instead you can set the display and hd to power down after a defined period of inactivity. It will always work properly and is easier on your system.None of the Windows power saving features work...Well - as a rule the individual settings in power options are okay, but it's absolutely true that Hibernate & Sleep were simply never perfected by MS and cause problems on some systems.Quote from: Allan on January 16, 2010, 03:05:28 PM

Well - as a rule the individual settings in power options are okay, but it's absolutely true that Hibernate & Sleep were simply never perfected by MS and cause problems on some systems.

Actually, they both work fine. it's the HARDWARE manufacturers that make their hardware tell windows, "yeah, I support this feature and that feature" and then windows assumes, "oh hey, it supports this feature" because, you know, it just asked it. Then it goes to use that feature.

Except the hardware only pretends to support it.

If a piece of hardware, when asked, "say, do you support mode?" and the response is, "why YES, I do" is it not then, a safe assumption that possibly using that mode would work?

half of the power management issues that occur are problems with the hardware pretending to support features that they actually don't support, and windows trying to use them.

laptops in general are not as bad with this; since battery life is one of the major selling points, manufacturers make a point of both telling windows they support various power management features in addition to actually supporting them. For desktops, however, low power usage isn't a major selling point so sometimes they just kind of pretend in order to meet certain logo requirements.Quote

None of the Windows power saving features work...

Ditto. Waste of time.Quote from: BC_Programmer on January 16, 2010, 08:23:11 PM

Actually, they both work fine. it's the hardware manufacturers that make their hardware tell windows, "yeah, I support this feature and that feature" and then windows assumes, "oh hey, it supports this feature" because, you know, it just asked it. Then it goes to use that feature.

Except the hardware only pretends to support it.

If a piece of hardware, when asked, "say, do you support <BLANK> mode?" and the response is, "why yes, I do" is it not then, a safe assumption that possibly using that mode would work?

half of the power management issues that occur are problems with the hardware pretending to support features that they actually don't support, and windows trying to use them.

I agree. Power saving features will work on many, but not all, systems. So, I'd encourage everybody to try them. If they don't work, then forget it. However, if Standby and/or Hibernation do not work, then you can still try what Allan said, Quote from: Allan on January 16, 2010, 01:02:10 PM

Don't use standby. Instead you can set the display and hd to power down after a defined period of inactivity. It will always work properly and is easier on your system.

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