Sony Vaio PCG-GRV670 lid closing action

[krishnika]

My Sony laptop comes with a power management software called Powerpanel, that replaces the XP Home power options control panel.

My question relates to the setting for Lid Close Action. When I choose Standby there is no problem, the machine is obviously powering down. However when I choose LDC Off, I cannot tell what is happening. I also had hard disk turn off at 1 min. So I closed the lid and waited 2 minutes. The hard disk did not appear to turn off - the light continued to flash. And when I opened the lid, the LCD was on. Does is automatically come on again or did it never go off?

The reason I am interested in avoiding Standby and Hibernation is because I recently connected to a DSL router and needed to incorporate protection software. I was connected to the router unprotected for about 10 days and everything worked fine. But after installing Firefox, CW Shredder, Ad-Aware, AVG, and ZoneAlarm I noticed that after several hours in standby, my connection to the Internet was lost. This happens on a consistent basis, and it had never happened before. I am assuming it has something to do with the protection software. I tried repairing in the networking control panel and in the command line ipconfig release and renew, and I tried disabling and enabling. But the only that works to re-establish connection is to restart the computer. Which of course makes standby mode a bit useless.

I've posted on several forums, but no one's solution has helped. One person suggested never using standby or hibernate, but I need a way to turn off the screen and power down the hard disk before I close the lid.

Well, sorry for such a long post, but I really would appreciate a fix. It's not a major problem but it's very inconvenient.

Thanks.

Oh - would it be better to post this in another category like networking or Applications? It's incorporates a lot of different types of questions.

[Kuasimodem]

I've had no problems using Hibernate with my laptop and I have all of the programs running that you have. The only difference is that I'm on Charter Pipeline (cable) and my network setup is a Surfboard modem and Microsoft MN-700 wireless router.

Do you lose the connection when using Hibernate?

[krishnika]

yes, I lose with either Standby or Hibernate.

I had an interesting experience this morning. Last night I set ZoneAlarm to no protection since someone suggested there may be an issue. This morning, I got a message saying my network cable was unplugged, and the only way to enable the connection was to change the setting back to medium. This doesn't make any sense to me. Maybe the problem was somewhere else and fixed itself, and the ZoneAlarm changes were just a coincidence?
???

[krishnika]

I checked out the ZoneAlarm forums, and actually found the solution to the connection problem. It turns out I just need to add the DHCP Server address to the Trusted Zone. Hope this helps someone else.