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re: standby and hibernation settings
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 at 8:49 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Gryf
(1 messages posted)
I've got the very same issue, and it's a HUGE annoyance. I run the computer lab at
an elementary school, and have to manage 26 Dell Optiplexes simultaneously. Yes,
they do drop into screen saver mode, and then sleep mode, regardless of the Windows
power management settings. Evidently this is programmed into the Dell BIOS, and so
far I've found no way to change it. This is highly inconvenient for me, because I
like to have all 24 student computers up when classes arrive, ready for the kids
to log in. But no, the things go into standby anyway, and I have to walk around the
room hitting 24 space bars to wake them up just so the kids don't have to. I manually
log in all the machines for grades K-2, and even when logged in, they go into sleep
mode, so the kids arrive to a roomful of black screens unless I make the rounds and
hit 24 space bars to wake the things up. Note too that when they're sleeping, I can't
access them using Remote Desktop. It's a major pain to deal with this every day!!
On Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 10:40 pm, Patrick Nolan wrote:
>I have a problem that seems to be the opposite of everyone else's experience. My
>computer suspends itself even though I have told it not to. It's a Dell Optiplex
>with XP Pro. I want to be able to access it by Remote Desktop. When it's left
alone
>for a few hours with no one logged in, it sleeps (?). Pushing the power button
revives
>it in a few seconds. Remote Desktop can't contact it in this condition.
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>I have chosen a power scheme which never shuts down. I have disabled hibernation.
> In the BIOS settings I can choose ACPI S1 or S3, neither of which seems to do what
>I want. I enabled the setting which allows the NIC or modem to wake it up. Still
>it dozes off. What's left?
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