re: Fans still running in standby mode, problem solved! Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 12:26 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Paul F (1 messages posted) Wow, what an amazing post! I have a HP P4 3.2GHz machine that I recently upgraded with some new hardware and a completely clean Win XP install. A week or so back I noticed that when the machine went into Standby the fans were still running, something I hadn't been aware of before, but just put it down to the unit needing to cool down or something, or maybe because of the time and effort I'd put into the rebuild I was just more observant. Anyway, once I'd become aware of it, it really started to bug me, and I was SURE it hadn't been like that before! So I started digging around for info, learning about the various Standby states, Registry settings, hacks etc... and when I found this discussion late last night, USB device power settings and the way Microsoft likes to do things! I have a cordless desktop, and had taken the keyboard and trackball sensors off their PS2 adapters and plugged them directly into the USB ports on the back of the case, running everything else through a new Hub. Sure enough, when I looked in Device Manager, they were checked to allow wake-up from Standby! So, I unchecked the keyboard, put the trackball back on its PS2 adapter, and when I go into Standby... SILENCE, with no fans running (and I can obviously wake from Standby with the trackball). What a ridiculously SIMPLE solution to a problem that had been bugging the crap out of me!!! :) Thanks guys for a great post! Written in response to: re: Fans still running in standby mode (Eric8_Chen: Monday, February 4, 2008 at 3:51 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. 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(Jami: Fri, Aug 5, 2005, 12:20 pm) re: Fans still running in standby mode (fred daynes: Sat, Jul 16, 2005, 7:16 am) re: Fans still running in standby mode (John: Tue, Jul 19, 2005, 6:08 pm) re: Fans still running in standby mode (streett: Sun, Aug 21, 2005, 12:32 pm) re: Fans still running in standby mode (Ben: Mon, Aug 22, 2005, 12:28 pm) re: Fans still running in standby mode (SB: Thu, Sep 1, 2005, 7:43 pm) re: Fans still running in standby mode (Tom Allen: Mon, Jan 5, 2004, 8:09 pm) re: Fans still running in standby mode (leafnose: Sat, Nov 1, 2008, 7:25 am) re: Fans still running in standby mode (leafnose: Sat, Nov 1, 2008, 8:09 am) re: Fans still running in standby mode (Mike Teskey: Sun, Jan 11, 2004, 11:51 am) re: Fans still running in standby mode (Bob Jackson: Tue, Feb 3, 2004, 3:29 pm) re: Fans still running in standby mode (W. Long: Tue, Jun 15, 2004, 6:22 am) re: Fans still running in standby mode (W. Long: Wed, Jun 16, 2004, 7:18 pm) S3 standby - Fans turn off only for some login/userids (Steven Elliot: Mon, Feb 7, 2005, 4:15 pm) re: S3 standby - Fans turn off only for some login/userids (W. Long: Mon, Feb 7, 2005, 4:54 pm) re: S3 standby - Fans turn off only for some login/userids (W. Long: Thu, Feb 17, 2005, 8:32 pm) re: S3 standby - Fans turn off only for some login/userids (High Sierra: Sun, Mar 13, 2005, 5:19 am) re: S3 standby - Fans turn off only for some login/userids (TimF: Thu, May 26, 2005, 2:08 am) re: S3 standby - Fans turn off only for some login/userids (Olli Männistö: Sat, May 21, 2005, 7:25 am) Solution to fans still running in standby mode (David Morar: Tue, Aug 16, 2005, 6:06 am) re: Solution to fans still running in standby mode (Nr.one: Sat, Apr 1, 2006, 2:14 am) re: Solution to fans still running in standby mode (frodoc: Tue, Jan 30, 2007, 5:54 pm) re: Fans still running in standby mode (Adam: Sun, Jan 22, 2006, 11:57 am) Fixed after attempting all solutions (Lance: Thu, Aug 16, 2007, 4:14 pm) re: Fixed after attempting all solutions (Norbert: Sun, Nov 18, 2007, 12:59 pm) re: Fixed after attempting all solutions (mjw2005: Wed, Dec 26, 2007, 10:04 pm) re: Fixed after attempting all solutions (howardc64: Sat, Jan 5, 2008, 10:32 pm) re: Fixed after attempting all solutions (John Miller Crawford: Sat, Nov 1, 2008, 3:06 pm) re: Fans still running in standby mode (Eric8_Chen: Mon, Feb 4, 2008, 3:51 pm) re: Fans still running in standby mode, problem solved! (Paul F: Tue, Mar 18, 2008, 12:26 pm) re: Fans still running in standby mode (Dan: Thu, May 15, 2008, 3:20 pm) re: Fans still running in standby mode (Dan: Thu, May 15, 2008, 4:13 pm) re: Fans still running in standby mode (Dan: Thu, May 15, 2008, 4:31 pm) re: Fans still running in standby mode (Earl Voss: Mon, Jun 2, 2008, 7:11 am) re: Fans still running in standby mode (malexandrum: Sat, Jan 24, 2009, 1:17 am) 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