Resume via WOL results in 2 minutes timeout to standby.

External Since: May 10, 2006 Posts: 15

XP Pro SP2, all updates etc. Compaq Deskpro with up to date drivers.

When my PC resumes from standby via key press or mouse it then goes into
standby mode after 20 mins of inactivity as set in control panel/power
options. Fine.

However, when my PC resumes from standby via WOL/PME, it goes into standby
after 2 mins of inactivity, ignoring the 20mins setting in control
panel/power options.

There is no Bios or NIC setting to change this timeout. MS Tech Support not
much help.

Any suggestions please?

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External Since: Sep 12, 2007 Posts: 2

I'm in the same situation. Apparently, XP doesn't know why the system woke
up, so it just shuts down if it doesn't detect specific activity within 2
minutes. I'm doing RPC to this system, and SOME tasks that I start will reset
the inactivity timer, but others will not. If I knew what windows was looking
for, I'd write a small util to give it a nudge, but the KB article on this
behavior offers no suggestions, it just documents the timeout as a fact of
life (no help there).

I don't want to be so crude as to fake out a keystroke, so I'm looking for
something a bit more elegant. I'd settle for some kind of net keepalive
packet, but I haven't found anything yet.