Support for Windows Standby Issue

[jamesr316]

There is probably a real simple answer for this, but I will ask anyways. I built a computer a while back. It turns on fine, it shuts off fine, it even goes into hibernate fine. It does not get stuck on the "It is now safe to turn off your computer" screen.

My problem is when I choose to use standby, the system appears to go into standby, yet the computer itself stays on as I can hear the devices and fan still getting power. To someone looking at it, it would appear if just the screen turned off, however when i hit a key and it "wakes up", I can see the computer trying to regain its LAN connection.

Any ideas? I don't think it is a wrong pin issue because it starts up/shuts down/hibernates just fine.

Thanks in Advance.

 

[Badger]

standby won't stop your fans, but it should stop your hard drives. try to pinpoint whether or not your hard drives are spinning down.

 

[jamesr316]

when i choose standby on my laptop, its almost as if everything shuts down... just a little yellow light stays on and it is quiet unlike normal operation. When I do it on the pc i built, its as if nothing happened at all except the monitor went off.

is it just my hard drives spinning? Every other computer I have ever put in standby sits in this "low power stage" until turned back on to normal, my pc isnt doint that.