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One computer on our network (private household), a Compaq, which used to have a properly working 'sleep' mode, has suddenly stopped working.
This is an XP OS. It used to be networked, but is now hardwired to our modem. The modem is new from our ISP, and we were unable to get the adaptor to connect to the network. We uninstalled the adaptor, and hardwired the XP, as mentioned above. This was when the XP, which used to go to sleep after a certain amount of idle time. However, since the change, it goes into sleep mode but immediately wakes up, as if we hit a key, or moved the mouse.
I checked the 'help' area and found info about hibernation, and the 'sleep button."
Before I get further into finding out how to fix this problem, I'd like to know if hibernation and sleep mode are actually the same thing. 2nd, where IS the sleep button?
What might be the reason that the system has lost the ability to remain in sleep mode? I do note that our other computer (a Vista OS) has long ago lost it's sleep mode, as has the monitor lost the ability to go to sleep.
Could the modem (DSL) be responsible for this problem?
Advise please,
Rad
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Sleep and Hibernation are DIFFERENT features.
by R. Proffitt 
- 4/9/12 10:08 AM
In Reply to: Problem with loss of hibernation mode by raduzhok
One is not like the other, something's not the same. - Anon.
As Wake from Sleep is a rather machine specific issue, you have to look around for any device that can wake the machine. Example at link.
http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1638705 covers many angles at fixing this. However you begin to wonder if home PC users would want to learn all this.
Bob
Sleep Mode Issues
by raduzhok - 4/9/12 2:19 PM
In Reply to: Sleep and Hibernation are DIFFERENT features. by R. Proffitt
Thank you, Bob, for differentiating between the sleep and hibernation modes.
I checked out the Tek-Tips forums, but they are for professionals, and require that I choose what kind I am, but there is no option for PC user. Thus, I can't join the site to ask for help. I just want to know how to find out what is causing my computer to not be able to stay in sleep mode, until I want to wake it. I just want to fix it so it operates the way it always has. Other than the hardwire, and removal of the adaptor from the XP, nothing has changed.
under 'power options' in the control panel, on the General Tab, it shows Energy Star Power Schemes, with four options. One of these is Standby and it is set of 'after 20 minutes.' Is that what actually puts my system to sleep if I'm AFK for a prolonged period of time? The other options refer to the monitor, the HDs, and hibernation, which you said was not the same as sleep. Because I am not actually certain that 'standby' is what initiates sleep mode, I looked further, and found info on a tab on that window about 'away mode.' THIS sounds like the option I need to work with.
Currently, 'away mode,' is 'enabled.' I've disabled, and re-enabled it, and will hope that the computer will go to sleep as it always did, without waking immediately. Please let me know if this actually IS the right area in which I need to work to right the situation. Let me know if I'm on the right track.
Thank you
But something did change. "It used to be networked, but is
by R. Proffitt - 4/9/12 2:28 PM
In Reply to: Sleep Mode Issues by raduzhok
"It used to be networked, but is now hardwired to our modem."
Let me take a GUESS. Remember to KNOW what it is, takes a lot of work and why I shared that link so we would know that command line and more skill is needed.
Since it is now on the modem, it could be getting Wake On LAN or WOL messages. A router would silently drop these (this is not an attack!)
Remember that such is buried in the settings so let's google it so you can pick the answer you like.
-> https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=XP+DISABLE+WAKE+ON+LAN
There are at least a dozen other wake up settings buried in drivers and more.
Bob
PS. A recurring thing to test.
by R. Proffitt - 4/9/12 2:30 PM
In Reply to: But something did change. "It used to be networked, but is by R. Proffitt
If the above doesn't do it, unplug all USB things, reboot and retest.
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