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re: Fixed after attempting all solutions
Sunday, November 18, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Norbert
(1 messages posted)
Lance, you are the man... tried everything in this (very long) thread but your solution
helped me. I looked for hours and DUMPPO.EXE did it. Thank you very very very much.
On Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 4:14 pm, Lance wrote:
>I know this thread is extremely old, but it helped me just the same. I'm running
>xp, so I don't know if vista will be the same. My other machine was an easy fix
>(setting the mouse's power options to "do not allow this device to bring out of
standby"),
>but my other computer refused to go into s3 sleep mode no matter how many different
>things I tried. I changed the USB device power settings, I set the bios to S3 mode,
>I altered the registry, I altered the power settings to minimal power settings,
yet
>none of these options silenced the drone of the fans. It seems that if you install
>Windows without S3 enabled, it will not automatically set it as the default no matter
>which common settings you tinker with. Finally, I stumbled upon the link http://www.jsifaq.com/SF/Tips/Tip.aspx?id=10770,
>which will lead you to the program dumppo.exe. This little DOS program will force
>your comp. to use S3 sleep mode. You'll need a little experience with DOS to run
>it, but it's easy for the most part. Just make sure the directory matches the directory
>you've saved dumppo.exe into and type the command in the instructions. Let me know
>if this saves anyone some time! Time is all you have on earth, and spending it
on
>Windows is more painful than prison!
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