I am running a Dell Latitude C600 for an internet bomber/ light duty notebook. It has been running as good as a 1ghz can, but there is one thing I have been having trouble with that I can't figure out. It will not standby or hibernate on its own. In the power settings, even if I set the computer to hibernate or suspend at 1 minute, 20 minutes later it will still be sitting there waiving at me. Now, it will shut the display off perfectly fine, and when I initiate the suspend or hibernate, it works perfectly fine.

Please help, I hate that people forget to turn this thing off, and leave it setting on the couch. It gets pretty warm.

Are there two separate options for when its plugged in or not? I have a Dell Inspiron laptop, and you can set it differently for when its plugged in.

There is, and I have set the settings accordingly, but it still is not doing it. I wish it were that simple

Thats really messed up then. Whats funny is that its probably something very simple.

I just done a quick search, no problems exactly like yours, but there are problems to do with standby mode in general. What antivirus program are you using? Maybe there'* something running that don't let it go into sleep/hibernate mode..

Microsoft security essentials. Gonna look through the settings on that now that you mention it to make sure there is nothing suspect there.

There was another name commonly mentioned, BIOS, not really sure what that is, but some of its settings caused some strange things..

I hope you are kidding...

I may have to doublecheck bios settings as well, but no matter what the BIOS settings were, Windows was doing its own thing.

Windows XP btw.

By strange, I meant (from mostly what I've read) about standby

What about your firewall? Apparently Zone Alert does some funky things when trying to hibernate

Just running windows firewall.