XP and laptop ?

[Gunslinger]

So my wife bought a Dell Insprion 1501 and it's great except she got it with windows vista wich ran at the speed of smell on this thing.

I convinced her to down/up grade to windows XP because it will run faster......wich it does.

I installed windows XP pro w/ SP2 on here and now every time we shut the thing instead of going into standby it restarts.  Is this a system setting or do I maybe have an error in the install.  I allready checked the CP and it says the profile is for a laptop.  My question is, is there a setting in there that I overlooked to make it go into standby when you close it?

[Airscrew]

Try checking the Power monitor settings?.... not sure might be a place to look

[2bighorn]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
I installed windows XP pro w/ SP2 on here and now every time we shut the thing instead of going into standby it restarts.  Is this a system setting or do I maybe have an error in the install.  I allready checked the CP and it says the profile is for a laptop.  My question is, is there a setting in there that I overlooked to make it go into standby when you close it?

There's BIOS upgrade available here
which fixes 'resume' function.

I'll suggest downloading and installing chipset drivers too...

[Gunslinger]

flashed the bios and no joy.  It's really annoying that the computer restarts every time you close the lid

[eagl]

In the power settings menu somewhere, there should be a setting "on display close, do..."  There should be options for standby, hibernate, shut down, or do nothing.

I set it to "f%^&$&%^king do nothing until I tell you to do something you irritating little piece of crap!"

I follow that up with threats.  Opening up your window and dangling it out (ala wacko jacko parenting tip #69) seems to help get the point across, but maybe I'm just imagining that.

Go into power settings.  I find it by going to screensaver.  In any case, go to the advanced tab under power options properties.  On my computer, the setting is under the "power buttons" area.