On Aug 24, 7:27*am, hk wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
Thought I might offer this, even though I don't understand it, in case
anyone else has a similar issue.

For over a year now, I have made it a practice to shut down my laptop (HP
Pavilion) *to the "sleep" or standby mode. (Not the hibernation mode).. * *It
shuts down the hard drive and video and puts the computer in a low energy
use.

But, whenever I have wanted to awaken it by hitting any key on the keyboard,
it has been very random in terms of how quickly it "wakes up". * Sometimes
it will spring back to life almost immediately. *More often it takes
anywhere from 15 seconds to over a minute before the display turns back on.
Once in a while it has taken so long that I had doubts it was ever going to
"wake up". *I've tried to find a reason that is software related,
unsuccessfully. *It's just random.

A couple of weeks ago I took some pictures with my camera and uploaded them
to the computer using a USB flash card reader.
When I was finished, I forgot to unplug the card reader and left it plugged
in.

I have discovered that with the card reader plugged in, the computer
responds immediately after hitting a key to awake from sleep mode. *Not once
in the past two weeks has it been sluggish or random like it was for the
past year. * Unplug the card reader and it goes back to it's old ways..

I am curious if the reason is due to loading the power supply a bit with the
USB card reader in, or is it a software issue related to the computer
re-recognizing the existence of the card reader as another drive.

Whatever the reason, it works. * So, now I just leave it plugged in.

Eisboch

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Wow, good answer from the alleged computer know it all of rec.boats.