StandBy Mode not working

Hi,This sounds like another one relating to the WIN98SE bug not coexisting with thE video adapter,check the refresh rate to see if you can lower it,it may be set to high.Make sure the drivers are up to date
Then again you may want to look at the support page on Micrsoft web site to research info on Win98 SE,because it will address a lots of isssues around this problem.

What OS are you using Win98SE or ME If it is ME it is very importent to have latest driver for that card. Also have same problem with Win98SE because of Norton AntiVirus running uninstall it and see if it still hangs.

Hi Morgan,

I would suggest that you get the lastest driver for your video card, also if the video card is in a slot and not on the motherboard. Shut down your computer, unplug the power cord, open it up, remove the video card and reseat it in theslot making sure it is in the slot all the way. Why you at it you can do the same with any cards you have in you system. They do tend to work their way out and not making good enough contact.

Good luck!

Don Thibodaux, Independent Computer Technology Consultant.

I've seen this problem before, with my own nVidia chipset. One of the possible causes is Windows, the other is nVidia's latest drivers... When using the Detonator 3 (and even the Detonator 2) drivers, I had problems coming out of standby. Sometimes my screen would look garbled, other times it just wouldn't come on. Check out Windows Update. When you reboot, does Windows give you a message stating that it couldn't bring the computer out of standby? If so, then it might be a compatibility problem with your motherboard's power management.

Hi Morgan,

May be u will have to upgrade your system BIOS or upgrade your GEOForce BIOS if is has a Flash Bios on it...

Hopes this works.

Are you connected to a network? If you are connected to a Novell network which is configured to drop the connection when the computer is taken off the network, this is exactly what will happen. If this is the case, don't use standby mode, or configure your network to allow the reconnection.

Okay, you've tried everything else, now give this a try: After each step, put the machine into standby and then see if you can wake it up.

1) In your power settings, tell the HDD never to power down.

2) Set your video adapter driver from Geforce to Standard VGA.

3) Go into your system properties, hardware profiles and copy your original configuration, naming it Test or something. Reboot and select the test configuration. Now for the scary part - go into the device amanager and start disabling stuff, everything but the video, HDD, mouse, and motherboard resources. Reboot, go into standby, and see if that fixes it. If it does, go to , if not, start disabling Motherboard resources one at a time, rebooting, going into standby, etc.

Begin enabling devices, one at a time, and booting into the test config. When the system hangs on standby again, you have found the problem device, and can boot into your normal configuration, disable the offending device, and get on with it.

Oh yeah, don't forget to delete the test configuration after this is all over.

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