XP can't Standby

[Tosh]

Any ideas why "Standby" will not work on my XP Pro system. Activating "Hibernation" has always worked fine - when I go to shutdown, I get the options of Turn Off, Restart or Hibernate. The actual hibernation process works perfectly.

However, if I turn-off hibernation and go to shutdown, I get the options to Turn Off and Restart, but Standby, although visible, is greyed out.

I also notice that in the Power Options > Power Schemes window, "System Standby" is not presented as an option at all, when I know I have seen it as an option on friends' PC's.

I have tried with APM both enabled and disabled, to no avail! Could it be my motherboard? (I've tried with Standby both enabled and disabled in the BIOS). I could understand, perhaps, if Standby worked and Hibernation didn't, as the latter is a more recent development.

It just seems illogical to me that my system hibernates quite happily, but can't deal with Standby!

Any help greatly appreciated.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Why hybernate or send the system to standby at all, join Team Anandtech, and make use of those unused clock cycles! Check the SETI link on my sig, or scope out the distributed computing forum.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
Why hybernate or send the system to standby at all, join Team Anandtech, and make use of those unused clock cycles! Check the SETI link on my sig, or scope out the distributed computing forum.

I'd like to heartly second that suggestion 😀

 

[TheCorm]

Is your system a laptop? What power scheme are you set to? what motherboard are you using?

Corm

 

[Tosh]

My system is not a laptop. Power scheme is customised to timings I prefer.

My motherboard is over four years old now, an ECS (Elite Group) P6BXT-A.

I don't believe it supports ACPI, or whatever the latest power management solution is called.

It does however support APM, as reported by XP itself.