Standby/Hibernate Problem - Cannot wake up

I have recently downgraded the Operating System on my Laptop (Lenovo
Notebook 3000N200) to Windows XP Pro with reasonable success. However, there
is one problem. I can go into Standby and Hibernate mode all right, though
it takes an easy 60 secs to do so, but I cannot wake the computer by shaking
the mouse or punching any key on the keyboard. I should clarify that my
laptop is connected to an external monitor and keyboard, and hence the
reference to shaking the mouse. I find that the only way to recover from
Standby or Hibernate modes is to power off and power on again by pressing
the power button on the laptop, which partly defeats the purpose of using
these modes. I have installed the correct latest BIOS and also Power
Management and video drivers for XP. Any help will be appreciated.

If you are in hibernation mode you can ONLY bring it out of hibernation via
the power on button except for wake on LAN. In hibernation, power is off
and the power on button must be pushed. When in standby mode a keyboard or
mouse movement will liven your computer. But, the keyboard and/or mouse must
be set up to do that function. In standby mode power is on and you only
activate the computer.

Thanks for the clarification regarding Hibernate Mode. So I should be able
to wake up my computer from Standby Mode, but here also I find that neither
the mouse nor the keyboard has the appropriate options when you check on
them in the Control Panel. I wonder if this aspect of Power Management is
part of the System Drivers particular to the make of the laptop. In fact I
have installed the latest Lenovo (my laptop manufacturer) Power Management
driver, but there is no improvement. If any folks out there with the same
system (Lenovo 3000N200 with Windows XP Pro) have got their Power Management
functioning properly, I would be glad to hear from them.

I have no info regarding your laptop but I had to tweak a BIOS setting in my
desktop to enable the mouse to wake up from Standby. It also had a setting to
use the keyboard as a wake up device, but I didn't enable this feature.

It may be worth a look at your laptop's BIOS settings.

Sorry I do not have a laptop. However on a desktop it is control
panel---mouse or keyboard---hardware tab---properties
button---and power management tab.

I take the point. Unfortunately the BIOS on my system does not have any
options to enable mouse or keyboard to wake up from standby.

[TLTed]

Just called Lenovo on a T61 concerning this very issue. Since you downgraded, you can't use Lenovo's built in SYSTEM UPDATE for drivers, but, there will be XP drivers on their site for:
BIOS
HOT KEY
POWER MANAGEMENT

The tech told me that these were all implicit in power on/hybernate issues. However, it could be a simple fix for you:
CONTROL PANEL
PERFORMANCE AND MAINTENANCE
POWER OPTIONS
TURN OFF HARD DISK

The hard drive turning off is what the tech said is doing this to us. I'll grant you that it should "work" the way it's supposed to, but I've never been plesaed with putting the hard drive to sleep doing this stuff fairly regularly. Though I'll grant you, it's a laptop and you don't want it sucking up the energy. Try finding those drivers above and let us know if that cures the issue, as otherwise, I think we'll lean towards not turning the hard drive off at all, at least when plugged in.

[hortonbayhunter]

This is how Hibernation works on a T61.

. Select Start then Hibernate. At this point, the screen blanks out and the crescent light at the base of the Thinkpad inner lid (near the battery, hard drive etc lights) blinks while Hibernation housekeeping activities are being performed. When activities are complete the light goes out. To get out of Hibernation, the start button is lightly depressed for a few seconds. A message is displayed that the Thinkpad is resuming where it left off.

. Press the Fn and F4 keys. At this point, the screen blanks out, the crescent light comes on and stays on (also lit on the front of the lid so that the User knows that the Thinkpad is in a Hibernation state when the lid is closed. To get out of Hibernation, the Fn and F4 keys are pressed. No resume message is displayed that the previous session is resumed.

I have a Lenovo T61 about 9 mos old with Win XP Pro. I have this problem sporadically. When the laptop goes into standby mode I lose use of the keyboard/mouse and sound. Therefore I cannot log back on unless I used the fingerprint reader, which works, but then once logged on my keyboard and sound still do not work. Any ideas?

[azizmahmud]

I have Fujitsu Siemens Amilopa 1538 Laptop with Win7 OS. The same problem for me.I used F2 bios setup menu.Advanced bios settings. Click the ' default bios settings ' . After restart , probelem was solved.So change the bios settings to ' default bios settings ' Thanks..