From: Ken (kenzo_at_free-music.com)
Date: Mon Jun 17 2002 - 07:42:58 EDT
I've resolved the issue I previously posted about, where my T23/Win2000 wouldn't standby or hibernate.
By stopping all applications and then going through each of the services running on the machine (ctrl-alt-del, task manager, processes), and finding each file on the hard drive to see what it was, I was able to see which things were running that IBM hadn't supplied.
I narrowed the problem down to "WROS.EXE", which is a component of WinPOET 2.0 (which I need to use for my DSL connection). There was no way to stop this process from running, but if I temporarily removed the file and restarted the machine, standby worked perfectly.
I discovered that there's a freeware PPP-over-ethernet app, called RASPPPOE, which resolves this issue. It can be found at:
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~normanb/
(If I hadn't have found that, another avenue would've been to buy a router that supports PPP-over-ethernet, and replace my ISP's DSL modem with that. This would have eliminated the need to run any app at all. But, I prefer the free and immediate solution I found!)
So, all is well once again with the new machine.
- Ken
kenzo_at_free-music.com
Original message:
At 01:02 AM 6/17/2002 -0400, Ken wrote:
>Thinkpaders -
>
>I've been setting up my new T23 (Win2000, built-in Ethernet daughter card, no firewire). So far, I haven't been able to put it into standby or hibernation. I get this pop-up:
>
>"System Standby Failed
>The device driver for the 'Intel (R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection' device is preventing the machine from entering standby. Please close all applications and try again. If the problem persists, you may need to update this driver."
>
>I have updated both the ethernet driver and the power management driver from IBM's site. No change.
>
>The obvious thing is to stop the ethernet card, but a) I wouldn't assume I would have to manually do this, and b) I'm not even sure how to do it in Win2000.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>(Love the machine so far. But the migration process from my Win95-based machine of 3+ years has been taxing!)
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Ken
>kenzo_at_free-music.com
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