W3J standby mode turns machine off after a few minutes

I'm familiar with the problem a few others are experiencing with the machine not coming out of standby but my problem is different. I performed a clean install and when I put the notebook into standby mode, after a minute or two, it the flashing blue light will just turn off meaning the machine has turned itself off. If I press a key before the light goes off, it will resume from standby.

Does anyone have a solution to this? Thanks!

 

It sounds like the machine is going into hibernate mode after entering standby? If that's it, alter the timeout length for hibernate, or disable hibernate in Power Options.

 

Yeah the same thing happens to me. However I don't think its a problem, I'm pretty sure thats how its supposed to be. If it's in standby for a certain time, it just pretty much "shuts down" but not reallly becasue when you press the power button, the "Resuming Window" screen comes on and you still have all the programs that were open

 

At first I thought it was going into hibernation but pressing the power button just restarts the boot process. I've tried turning hibernation on and off to no avail. Going to reinstall windows again and see if that does anything.

 

They need a software to control this hibernation function, please double check all the setting under the "Power Schemes" to see how it works. If the problem is still there, to install a fresh Windows(don't install all the application first) might see the different. Probably, you can distinguish the problem in hardware or software.
Cheers

 

Reinstalled xp and installed only the ati driver which apparently is required to get standby support. Still experiencing the same problem although I found that for whatever reason, the machine will stay in standby mode when the power supply is NOT plugged in. I left the notebook unplugged for 15 minutes and it remained in standby and was able to restore the session without any issues. When plugged in, the machine will stay in standby for no more than 5 minutes before turning off.

I'm suspecting a power supply issue. Gonna try out a different power supply unit.

 

Have you checked your power options in Control Panel? Windows defaults to different management schemes and timeouts for AC and battery power, I'd check there first.

Does your time to hibernate when on AC match what you're seeing? What about the battery menu - how long is your standby and hibernate setting?

 

Bought an iGo adapter to test with but the notebook still powers down a few minutes into standby mode. It's interesting to note that while the battery is not at 100% and charging (orange light on), this problem will not occur. As long as power is being drawn somehow from the power supply, the system will remain in standby.

Sending the notebook to Asus so that they can take a look. I'm thinking this will require a mainboard swap.

 

I know when I first started playing with mine, the power setting were all out of wack - like 2mins for everything - obviously not ideal.

Go into the power settings and mess around - I am finding that it's hit or miss when coming out of hibernation...

 

I don't believe it's even getting to the point where standby becomes hibernation since the power light stops flashing just minutes into standby. I've played around with all the different settings using NHC, Speedswitch and P4G all of which yield the same result. Didn't want it to come to this but when you pay for this kind of machine you expect it to be perfect which is why I'll be shipping it to Asus tomorrow.

 

Hey freejak13,

A few of us have been having power management problems. If you read back a ways in the forum ideas have been bios upgrade, turning power mangement off or hibernation off on each of the p4g, to not using p4g at all. Also a few have reformated to ntfs or removed the hidden restore partition.

Personally, I need the extended power so I leave some power management options on but disable hibernation. It seems to reduce the unwakeable status from happening most but its not 100%.

Also if you are using the extended bat. when the 2nd bat is drained save often, wierd things happen.

You porbably know most of this, but if asus figures it out for you please let us know. Ive called them, but havent sent it in yet.

Alot of goodness in the laptop, i just save alot.

So far the machine was been good otherwise

 

What you should do is go into the control panel and check the power settings from there...

I'm speculating here, but I know there's a time setting for when it hibernates, goes into stand-by and ALSO when the hard drives shut off...

I'm guessing each one is causing a different symptom that you're having (one let's you recover, one doesn't, one stops the blue light from flashing...etc)

 

Thanks for all your suggestions thus far. It's not really a power management problem since everything seems to work perfectly when running on just the battery.

Thanks!