X60 fails to go into standby

[krypto]

I have a new x60 (core 2 duo) which won't go into standby on its own using the power scheme settings. These are set to 5 mins for standby and 20 minutes for hibernate while on battery.

I can manually force standby by closing the lid, but then it doesn't go into hibernate after 20 minutes. I can also manually force hibernate using f12. I have tried disabling a number of items including firewall without any luck.

[lev]

I have a new x60 (core 2 duo) which won't go into standby on its own using the power scheme settings. These are set to 5 mins for standby and 20 minutes for hibernate while on battery.

I can manually force standby by closing the lid, but then it doesn't go into hibernate after 20 minutes. I can also manually force hibernate using f12. I have tried disabling a number of items including firewall without any luck.

On battery power, it won't automatically wake to go from standby to hibernate unless you go into the BIOS and enable
config -> power -> Timer wake w/Battery Operation

The logic of this is to protect the system from waking up in your bag and trying to hibernate while you are swinging it around, and possibly damaging the disk. Windows vista apparently has a different form of "sleep" which encompasses both standby and hibernate as XP calls them, and behaves more like the old IBM RediSafe, in that it writes RAM out to disk, and then goes to standby, but if the power runs out or a timer expires, it can just switch off without having to first wake up and write Ram out to disk. Makes sense.

You should really search the forum before posting. All of this was discussed just a couple of days ago:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=37453

As for why your laptop doesn't sleep in the first place, something is keeping it awake, making it think it's not idle. You'll have to try killing off running processes one at a time until you find out which one is the culprit. Likely candidates are antivirus stuff, anything which runs in the background, like IM, VOIP, mail checkers, etc.

Lev

[krypto]

Thanks, I did search the forums but missed the article that you highlighted. I'll go through the process of killing processes to try and find the problem.

[krypto]

I've had no luck in finding the responsible process and I'm considering a total rebuild. Is there a guide to the minimum Thinkpad direvers and utilities required on top of XP to get it working?

Also are there any special protocols with regards to the security chip when doing a rebuild? Don't want to end up locked out.