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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (39645)	2/24/2004 6:07:35 PM
From: Larry S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

i have a similiar dell. i have power down and hibernate after a few hours. occassionally i have to use the button to restart it. most of the time, vigorously moving the mouse will work. sounds like your machine has something out of the ordinary wrong with it. have you tried Dell help? larry

To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (39645)	2/24/2004 6:23:55 PM
From: SI Dave	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

First thing I would do is see if your BIOS is current. Also make sure there aren't any funky settings on devices like network adapters that can wake up the system. Also, regarding system restore, that does not add/remove user data. It's mostly registry, drivers, settings, etc. To be clear, I'm talking about restoring the system to a recent restore point, not doing an OS repair from CD. Lastly, in my experience, XP-Home just loves to go comatose for no reason, especially when it's idle.