Thanks Much Twayne, I appreciate your promptness..What you say makes sence &
i will try it...
"Twayne" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > > My computer power use to shut down after 20 minutes or so, now without
> > changing anything it has stopped & my power is always on......
> > Previously after 20 minutes my computer would appear to shut down
> > as the power light went off, then when i hit power button it would
> > come back on to my desktop with out having to re boot.... would that
> > be in hibernation mode ??... I hve now tried to readjust the
> > hibernate mode shutdown time & turn my had drive off, but it still
> > just goes into screen saver mode......How can i get it back to where
> > it was?? All my efforts in trying to readjust the times don't seem
> > do anything ....thanks in advance
>
> If you can tap a key and the computer comes back to life, that would
> almost surely mean it has gone itno Standby, not hibernate. With
> hibernate mode, you have to turn the power back on and it boots up with
> all the programs open that you had when you closed it.
>
> If things are working right, then maybe the Standby time is set shorter
> than the Hibernate time you have set, so that it goes to standby before
> it ever gets to hibernate. You might want to turn the standby feature
> off temporarily until you get hibernate working to your satisfaction and
> then turn it back on if you want it. Just remember they can intercept
> each other if one is set shorter than the other and fires first.
>
> If that's no help, feel free to come back. Someone will surely have
> ideas for you that will work.
>
> HTH
>
> Twayne
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