re: System Standby Failed Saturday, January 12, 2002 at 8:19 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Matt (1 messages posted) I ran into same problem. It turned out to be Quicken 2000. I up graded to 2002 and the problem went away. Hope this helps. On Friday, January 11, 2002 at 1:30 am, Christopher Shumway wrote: >Hi. >I've ran into a problem I can't seem to solve. When I do start -> >Turn off computer -> Standby I get an error message that reads >"The device driver 'Communications Port (COM2)' device is preventing >the machine from entering standby...'. I have nothing attached to the >second serial port on this sytem. Any ideas on what could cause this? >Running Windows XP Pro on an Asus P4B-F(440BX Chipset)/PIII-500/512m >Matrox G400. The system was installed on an empty hard drive (not upgraded). >I've also checked BIOS revisions from Asus and am running the latest. Written in response to: System Standby Failed (Christopher Shumway: Friday, January 11, 2002 at 1:30 am) Responses to this message: re: System Standby Failed (noone: Thursday, December 5, 2002 at 1:35 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] System Standby Failed (Christopher Shumway: Fri, Jan 11, 2002, 1:30 am) re: System Standby Failed (Matt: Sat, Jan 12, 2002, 8:19 pm) re: System Standby Failed (noone: Thu, Dec 5, 2002, 1:35 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum