re: Fans still running in standby mode
Friday, September 17, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by deegee
(5 messages posted)
Thank you all after the many years this thread has been around for helping me
find a solution to this very same problem.
Last month, I bought a new keyboard (USB) to replace the old one (non-USB) I had
which died after many years. At that time, I began having problems with the fans
staying on when I put the system into Standby. I tried a bunch of different things,
some of which were due to other, unrelated problems I was having with my system.
I also saw that I had a lot dust building up inside my system which I though was
the problem. I cleaned out the dust (a good thing, of course) but that did not keep
the fans quiet.
But I suspected it had something to do with the new keyboard. The mouse was an
optical one (USB) I had been using since 2002, the same year I got the old keyboard.
The problem was indeed the fact that I had checked those boxes being able to take
the system out of Standby. But what could I do if I unchecked those boxes; how could
I actually GET the sytem out of Standby without pressing the power button which had
also been giving me some minor problems over the years?
I happened to have a spare mouse, one which was not USB. I simply plugged it
into its PS/3 port (and rebooted the system), giving me two active mouses (mice?).
Now, I could safely uncheck the take-out-of-Standby boxes on the the USB mouse and
USB keyboard while using the PS/3 mouse to take the system out of Standby without
using the power button. Because the PS/3 mouse is used for only this purpose, I
don't need to keep it in an easily accessible area, just nearby so I can left-click
once on it to bring the system out of Standby, like an on-off switch. Pretty clever,
huh?
But again, I would like to thank all of you who contributed to this fascinating
thread which nudged me in the right direction so I could have my system go into and
out of Standby as it did before, enabling me to have peace and quiet without using
the shaky power button.
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