Dsheet,
Standby issues are notoriously difficult to solve. My Windows 95 Compaq, to name an example, perfectly went in and out of standby until about a month ago. And now it needs alt-f4 reboot, because the desktop doesn't work anymore after it resumes. About the 'only' things I changed are new versions of Spybot and Adaware and replacing AVG 6 by AVG 7.
Tell your mother to shut the machine down in stead of putting it in standby mode, and the problem will be solved quite satisfactory, in my opinion.
Kees
Hi i'm an aspiring techy my mothers PC has a few issues lol. This just started about a month ago though. She leaves it on overnight in sleep mode. When she goes to get on it somtimes it just will not wake up. She ends up having to manually shut down and restart it. It has a 1 GHz P3 processor upgraded from a celeron 766MHz. the 1GHz processor is the max the motherboard will support. It also has 384 MB of sdram. How do I fix this?

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