Top Document: Compaq Contura Aero Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: 3.2.2.1 Problems when Power-up from standby Next Document: 3.2.2.3 Forcing hibernation See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge [Q] When I come out of a long standby my pointer freaks out. It jumps around and clicks on everything. I have to reboot windows. Anybody have similar problems and a fix? (besides windows sucks) [A] Don't touch the mouse till your Aero beeps at you that its awake. [A] I think I may have a fix. I have the Windows power management stuff installed; exit Windows, run SETUP, and make sure you're using a "DOS Machine with APM" -- it may need a disk or two from the Windows disks. Check the POWER.EXE line in CONFIG.SYS -- I had to add "STD" to the end of it to prevent Windows from crashing on resume if I'd used the modem before suspending. In Windows, go into ControlPanels->Power and set it to "Standard" instead of "Advanced" (or turn it Off). I seem to have problems with the trackball if PCMSMIX.EXE is loaded, you may want to check it out for yourself. I'm not too clear on what it does. I had to comment out the PCMSMIX driver from CONFIG.SYS to avoid crashes and/or trackball weirdness on resume. -- ed. note: PCMSMIX.EXE is not needed at all, see discussion elsewhere ... Another thing is to make sure the line: RUN=C:\WINDOWS\CPQWIN\CPQEVENT.EXE is still in your \WINDOWS\WIN.INI file under the "[windows]" heading. Something took mine out a couple days ago -- I think it might have been the Lotus SmartSuite 3.0 install, but I can't be sure. Also, make sure WINDOWS\SYSTEM.INI is using COMM.DRV=SSCOMM.DRV and not COMM.DRV=COMM.DRV (or something else) under the [boot] section -- Quicklink II changed this when I was trying out the Angia SafeJack PCMCIA modem. Test by booting the machine with the modem installed, access it somehow, quit the comm program, suspend, wait a few minutes, and resume. If it didn't work, your machine should crash -- otherwise you should be fine. If it still doesn't work, you could try dropping back to the workaround I was using and will probably go back to: turn off PCMCIA power except when you need the modem. Put a copy of the PowerManagement&Hibernation icon on the button bar in TabWorks. Double-click it, hit "." to go to PCMCIA setup, "f" or "n" to turn power off or on as appropriate, then hit RETURN twice to get out. An alternative is to eject the modem partially and reinsert it to get the PCMCIA setup page (if you have "display window" set). Do this to turn it on, use it, and do this again to turn it off when done. User Contributions:Top Document: Compaq Contura Aero Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: 3.2.2.1 Problems when Power-up from standby Next Document: 3.2.2.3 Forcing hibernation Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Philip Wilk <PWilk-aerofaq@ZenSpider.com>
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