[kr580]

I never really use standby but it's got me curious. When I put it to sleep it does all the normal steps to go to sleep but when it does go to sleep the fans just keep going. It never has worked so it's not a problem that just recently came up. Can anyone think of why they're not going off? My PC's stuff is in my sig.

And they do stop when it's working correctly, right? I seem to remember our old HP's going silent when they went to sleep.

Thanks - Kevin

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Could still use some help. Anyone have any ideas?

[kr580]

Could still use some help. Anyone have any ideas?

[Neil Jones]

This is usually an option in the BIOS.

Or failing that, some boards differentiate heavily between Standby, Sleep and Hibernate. It may well be that this is one of the boards that still powers the fans in Standby, so you may need to put it in Hibernate mode to shut the thing up

All hibernate mode is an advanced form of Standby; laptops do it by default when you fold down the monitor screen. It just dumps everyting to a file and shuts off. Switch it on again, its as you were. You can enable Hibernate mode from the Power options in the control panel, and then just go to Start->Turn off Computer, hold down the left shift key and there's the option to Hibernate.

[kr580]

I just tried hibernate and the fans shut off. Sweet. I'll still look in the BIOS later for the sleep mode because I would rather just move the mouse to wake it up because I am oh so lazy.

Thanks for the help - Kevin