How do I get my laptop to standby again with XP?
 

Reformatted and installed XP on my girlfriend's laptop except now it doesn't have a standby option, it's just greyed out.

Any ideas?

Cheers.

Re: How do I get my laptop to standby again with XP?
 

sounds like a driver isn't installed for something, go into device manager and look for anything with a yellow question mark or exclamation mark and install the drivers for them. Mine did this when my display driver wasn't installed.

Re: How do I get my laptop to standby again with XP?
 

Often it happens if the display driver isnt installed properly. Try re-installing your graphics driver.

Also check the power options in your Bios.

You could also have a look in control panel, power options, and see if there is something in there for standby.

Re: How do I get my laptop to standby again with XP?
 

Thanks.

It must be the display driver. I'm using a generic VGA driver as the adapter in the laptop is broken.

It crashes when using the proper driver and that's after a DBAN and restore CD.

We'll just have to live with it.

Cheers.