Standby problem and solution

[fixup]

I love my X20 in all aspects except one thing: often, it won't go into standby mode. After spending lots of time on this issue, I found mouse drifting is one of the causes, beside the old BIOS and video driver, and so far the only solution is this AutoIt (V2) script:

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SetTitleMatchMode, 2
Start:
Sleep, 6000
MouseGetPos, x1, y1
Sleep, 600000
Gosub, CheckMouseMove
MouseGetPos, x1, y1
SplashTextOn, 300, 100, Are you there?, Move mouse to continue.
Sleep, 2000
SplashTextOff
Gosub, CheckMouseMove
RunWait, tscon.exe 0 /dest:console
Run, taskmgr
WinWaitActive, Windows Task Manager
Send, !ub
WinActivate, Windows Task Manager
WinWaitActive, Windows Task Manager
Send, !fx
Goto, Start
Exit

CheckMouseMove:
Sleep, 6000
MouseGetPos, x2, y2
EnvSub, x2, %x1%
EnvSub, y2, %y1%
EnvMult, x2, %x2%
EnvMult, y2, %y2%
EnvAdd, x2, %y2%
IfGreater, x2, 10000, Goto, Start
Return

The script is very easy to understand and uses no CPU time and memory. It sleeps for 10 minutes and then check mouse movement. If no significant mouse move during the 10 minutes, it'll post an alert "Are you there? Move your mouse to continue". If still no significant mouse move, it'll open Windows Task Manager to put the XP into standby mode. If the PC is in Remote Desktop mode, it'll switch to console first.

Now my X20 is guaranteed to sleep after 10-20 minutes. Perfect.