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by geppa

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I'm working on a:
PIII 500 Katmay
64MbRAM
20Gb Quantum
nVidia TNT2 Ultra 32Mb
Creative Sound Blaster PCI 128
Cirrus Logic V34 Modem
...
My mother board has an VIA Tech VT82C596 Power Management Controller which used to work just fine under Win95(OSR2) and Win98se but changed this good habit when I've installed Windows Me. This bugs me allot because otherwise I?m quite contempt with Me. When I set the Power Management Profile so that it would turn off monitor after say 5 minutes, turn off hard disks after 10 minutes and go into stand-by after 15 minutes, it only does the first one, the others are just not there. No, sorry, it attempts to shut of hard disks but half a second after that they(it) fire up again (like there would be some kind of hidden process that access it). I turned off the scheduler and any other third party software running in background, and also cleaned to minimum the Run/RunServices keys in registry. No change. Please help.

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by smltec

Theres a lot of issues with ME and that is one/I dont know if your computer is a laptop or not but in control panel there is an icon for hibernate/enable hibernate mode and it will put the computer to sleep after a certain time/If i were you I woulddisable power mnagement altogether in bios and let the hibernate mode take control

by geppa

Sorry, perhaps it was my mistake, I forgot to mention that my computer is a desktop system, it has the power management controller enabled in bios (it used to work just fine under win95 OSR2 and win98se) and there is still no hibernation tab under power management icon in control panel (witch is even more weird since my system supports it in theory). Now I hope I?ve covered the entire problem.

by noodle

Possibly you have automatic updates turned on? Is your net setting dial whenever network
is not present?
I would disable all bios based power setting except one and see if it still occurs, then go and change one more check again...etc...
Hope this helps :-}

by tjc

I have read that there are problems with ME and power management, my suggestion is to update your bios and also download any updates for ME on your system.

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