Stand By Mode and other questions.

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Hi.

 

Last week I built my first Athlon system. I love it so far, but I have a couple questions.

 

When I put it into Stand By Mode it seems to only stay in Stand By for around 15 minutes. Then the monitor turns back on and I'm prompted to enter my password, at which point I return to windows.

 

Isn't the computer supposed to stay in Stand By until I tell it to "wake up"?

 

Also when I leave my computer for a while I have the screen saver set to come on after 10 minutes, and the monitor to shut down after 20 minutes. But the monitor will only shut down one time, right after I set it in the Power Options Properties window. The second time I go away from the system, only the screensaver comes on, and the monitor does not shut down. To get it to work again, I have to re-apply the 20 minute power down in the power options.

 

I've never had this problem on any other system. Any thoughts?

 

And thirdly (sorry if this is too long), my idle temps fluctuate quite a lot. WIth nothing else running but windows, the idle temps can go from around 46degC all the way up to 49degC and back down, and so on, etc.. Shouldn't the idle temps (with nothing other than the startup processes running be relatively stable?

 

And here are my obligatory system specs:

 

Athlon 1.2Ghz 266fsb

MSI K7T Turbo-R

384Mb PC-133

15Gb 5400rpm Maxtor (a relic from my last system)

Voodoo3 2000 (also a relic )

Linksys 10/100 nic

Hercules Muse XL sound, onboard sound disabled.

Enermax EG365P-VE 350Watt psu

 

[Edit] cause I forgot my software specs

Windows 2000Pro sp2

IE 5.5 sp2

4.32 4in1 drivers.

AMD AGP registry patch

The newest onboard RAID drivers are installed, bacause MSI never provided a way to diable it, but I have no drives to attach to it yet (I need money )

The last Voodoo3 drivers

The drivers that shipped with the sound card.

 

Oh and the Athlon was the boxed retail, with the AMD heatsink and fan. I know it's not that great, but it seems to be doing okay. My full load temps never gets above 52degC.

 

Thanks for any help you can provide.

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Anybody have any ideas on this?

 

None of them are a big deal or anything, but I would like to get some idea on what's causing them.