Error Message Disables Power Management Events

• Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition

SYMPTOMS

When you receive the error message "Your computer cannot go into standby," any of the following symptoms may occur:

• Power management events may be disabled.



• Power status events may not be detected.



• Critically low power events may not be detected.

CAUSE

This behavior occurs because the Vpowerd.vxd file may be in use while the error message dialog box is displayed. As a result, the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) is not polled for power-management events.

RESOLUTION

To work around this behavior, click OK to acknowledge the error message and free the Vpowerd.vxd file.

MORE INFORMATION

This behavior is by design.

Additional query words:

Keywords          : kberrmsg winapm win98se 
Version           : WINDOWS:
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb 

Last Reviewed: June 15, 1999