[AvCheu]

Annoying - checked for spyware (SpyBot) and viruses (Panda) and all are clean. When online (DSL) and using, pretty much okay. Download and upload speeds are about right for what I'm paying. System is not set to sleep or hibernate at any time - always on.

The problem:

Whenever I walk away from the cpu for more than 15minutes, it appears to have hibernated and takes over 5minutes to "wake up"

I haven't set it to sleep. I've gone through numerous virus and spyware checks and I'm clean (as best I can be, I suppose). What is causing this? Nothing unusual in the startup - Weather, ZoneAlarm, RealSched, NAV are running. Sometimes NAV auto goes off though.

I usually have Outlook Express open and FireFox. Are they slowing it? But I've noticed the "hibernation" when they are closed, too, so I doubt that.

It's REALLY annoying but haven;t found a fix. Will be reviewing WinXP updates, too. Any ideas?

-A

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[Open Power Options in Control Panel
Under System Hibernate, choose Never from the drop-down menu.

[darth_ash]

[Open Power Options in Control Panel
Under System Hibernate, choose Never from the drop-down menu.

[AvCheu]

Thanks, but that's the strange part - it is already set to *not* hibernate.

I can't seem to find out why it tends to go "off."

Any other ideas?