Asked By Robbie Hatley
22-Jan-10 11:28 PM

My Win2k installation (with all the latest SPs and updates)
mostly works fine, but there is two nagging problems that have
been lingering for years now, so I figure what the heck, I will
toss these in the forum and see if anyone has any ideas on these:
1. System often fails to correctly resume from "Standby".
Conceptually, I like the "Standby" feature, because it
allows me to turn off disks, CPU, etc, but keep RAM alive,
so that system can be brought back to "fully awake" in
just a few seconds, with the work-in-progress from night
before still on screen. Saves lots of time. BUT......
About every third time I use it, it fails to wake up from
standby. Everything just freezes. Black screen, no
video, no sound, does not respond to keyboard or mouse,
forcing me to push the "reset" button. I have not been
using Standby much lately, because of this problem.
2. About once every other day, my USB mouse pointer suddenly
freezes. I got tired of that and installed a secondary
serial mouse in case the USB mouse fails. When the USB
mouse freezes, the serial mouse generally works for a while,
then eventually that goes offline, along with sound and
internet. Not just a matter of a bad mouse, because it
has happened with 2 different models of USB optical mouse.
Driver conflict? IRQ conflict? Hardware problem?
Southbridge going south?
Any ideas of what is happening with those? Win2K issue, or
is my motherboard dying?
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Curious,
Robbie Hatley
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