Hewlett Packard 3265 question

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Tue Dec 14 12:12:24 1999

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_at_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?
>
Received on Tue Dec 14 1999 - 12:12:24 GMT