Precision M4400 and stand by issues

At work we ordered a Dell Precision M4400 laptop

Processor: T9300 or T9500

RAM: 4GB

OS: vista Basic



When the laptop arrived I took out the 80GB HDD and installed a Western Digital 320GB 7200 RPM drive and created 2 Partitions so that we could dual-boot with Windows XP SP3 and another Windows XP SP3.

Now, originally had a trial and eror with dual-booting research did not turn up a lot of posts of using a Dual XP boot system on a domain enviroment. After working those issues out there was a lot of driver installs (even though most were on a slipstreamed disc) for like the Fingerprint reader, audio, and software for power management.



The real issue is that I had to go in and turn off Stand-by and Hibernate because whenever one kicks in the laptop will no longer boot back up. It appears as if the machine is still running but can not restore completely. I have to hold he power button and do a hard restart.



I don't have any idea's as to what could be the issue, maybe something in the BIOS? Because it looks pretty intensive and thorough, because originally I had to go in and turn off something because I didn't want to install all the software for the fingerprint reader and such.



I don't think there are any errors in the event viewer and I haven't noticed any dump files, so if anyone has any ideas they will be welcomed!

the laptop is at work and I can reply back with nay information that I know of off the top of my head, but anyhing else will have to be Monday



Thanks!

 

hey jace,

Could be caused by driver(s) but before that, check a few things.

Start menu, type device manager, select it.

1. Expand - Network adapters.
For each listed network adapter ; Right click, properties , Power Management tab. "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" should be checked on. Repeat for all Network adapters.

Still in device manager
2. Expand - Universal Serial Bus controllers.
Scroll down until you find USB Root Hub (there should be about 8 of them). Double click each one, Power Management tab: "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" should be checked on. Repeat until all of them are done.

Give those a try and see if the system will sleep and resume properly.
Good luck

 

Alright, I went through all of those and I believe they were set to the correct setting. When I went to select Stand by the system stayed at the "System preparing to stand by" and I had to hard reboot.

 

I removed all standby/poser off features, freezong gone.

 

What do you mean standby/poser? Can you explain? I tried different power schemes and still the same result.