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#1 jeffrychuck1161

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Posted 10 November 2006 - 11:35 PM

When my computer goes on standby, it will only stay asleep for a couple minutes or so, then starts back up. If I turn off the DSL it will stay asleep. It is a HP computer, running XP. Any ideas ? Thanks

#2 Relic

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Posted 11 November 2006 - 02:16 PM

Have you tried shutting down your email program before going on standby? Could be that everytime it checks your email, your computer wakes up because you access the net.

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#3 jeffrychuck1161

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 07:01 PM

yes, email is off.

#4 Relic

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 07:04 PM

Try the 3 finger salute, ctrl+alt+del and see what you have running in the background, possibly you have a program that updates at regular intervals.

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 07:07 PM

Look your BIOS for 'wake up on lan' / WOL / Wake on LAN or similar and try disabling it.

#6 American Zombie

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 09:37 PM

You can also go into device manager > network adapter > properties > power management tab > uncheck "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby".

#7 bchilly

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 10:00 PM

I had a similar problem with my computer bringing itself out of hibernation after a few hours which was particularly annoying in the middle of the night as it is incredibly noisy! It doesn't have an internet connection and I never found out what it was.