14 Dec
1999
14 Dec
'99
3:15 a.m.
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?
14 Dec
14 Dec
7:12 a.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?
5:30 a.m.
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5:39 a.m.
grinding away,
no apparent reason ...
That's Windows for you! Mine does the same thing. Win 3.1 and no viruses. 
7:29 a.m.
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
They may not be old, but they "act" old. ;)
Welcome to that special part of hell known as HP Pavillion ownership. (I
have a "new" 6360 that in 3 months of working on it hasn't booted to
windows for more than 30 minutes without a gpf.) CompUSA told me not to
bother bringing it back, they had done all they could, but if I did get it
fixed to tell them as they were still curious.
Try a different mouse, maybe you have a mouse that likes to talk(noisey).
See if it does the same thing with the mouse unplugged.
It isn't very helpfull unless you really dig into the message base for a
couple hours, but then there are a few nice tidbits of information. Its the
HP pavillion users forum for your specific model on the HP web site.
The HP hardware newsgroup also answers some questions some times.
I don't know the names off hand, but I have heard of programs that monitor
the computer and report all the "tasks" that are running, which should ID
whatever is making your system busy.
4:46 p.m.
Re:
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
I had a problem with my Pavillion doing something similar...turns out
that in my case the Pavillion was periodically (and much too frequently)
contacting some HP site to see if there were new patches/software that
I might want. The fix, which of course I've forgotten, was documented
on an HP web site somewhere.
Stan Sieler
sieler(a)allegro.com
Stan Sieler sieler(a)allegro.com
www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html www.allegro.com/sieler
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