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

McGraw · 22-03-2008, 23:34

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.

Ben B · 22-03-2008, 23:47

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Originally Posted by McGraw

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.

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.

Halcyon · 23-03-2008, 02:57

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.

McGraw · 24-03-2008, 13:50

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.