14 Dec
1999
14 Dec
'99
12:12 p.m.
Ray,
You should be able to control that in your BIOS settings. I have an
Award BIOS in my PC clone and I can tell it to "wake-up" based on mouse
movement, keyboard input, drive activity, screen activity, port activity, etc.
powertools for AOL and AOL on, and the drive can
suddenly spend 5 minutes
grinding away, no apparent reason ...
That's Windows for you! Mine does the same thing. Win 3.1 and no viruses.
Joe
At 09:15 AM 12/14/99 EST, you wrote:
Hi
I realize this is for older computers but I have a question concerning a
newer computer ... I have a HP Pavilion with win 95 and a "suspend" feature
... the computer is very sensitive to mouse movement, which "wakes the
computer up" ... is there a way to have the Suspend feature be interrupted
only by a keyboard entry, basically turning the mouse movement feature
off?
I don't want to abuse the list, but this is really
a pain, sometimes I find
myself away for a while inadvertently, and the computer is grinding away ...
also, should an idle computer have massive amounts of drive activity? I have
powertools for AOL and AOL on, and the drive can suddenly spend 5 minutes
grinding away, no apparent reason ... system resources drop into the 30's
and
20's which make me wonder about a virus but Dr
Solomon came up clean.
Thanks
for any info
Ray Cook
SeaMasterZ(a)AOL.COM
PS - Right now I have Microsoft Word,
Netscape AOL and Powertools open, and the
system resources are at 26% ... with
64 MB of SDRAM, is this normal?