Power options

[Salad]

FYI. You may never experience this but if you do, this may save some
time debugging the problem.

A person left his computer to do some other tasks and when he'd come
back the links to the backend didn't exist.

What happened was that the person had a new computer. In the Control
Panel there's an option (at least for the Dell computer he's working on)
for Power Options. The option "Turn Off Hard Disks" was not set to
Never but to some minutes value. So after the period of inactivity
exceeded the time value in Power Options the hard disk stopped and
released the network mappings.

There really isn't any information on the "Turn Off Hard Disks" option
in Dell's Help. They concentrate on the Standby and Hibernate options
instead.

[Albert D. Kallal]

"Salad" <oi*@vinegar.comwrote in message
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The option "Turn Off Hard Disks" was not set to Never but to some minutes
value. So after the period of inactivity exceeded the time value in Power
Options the hard disk stopped and released the network mappings.

Having the hard disk spin down has absolutely no relationship whatsoever to
your network connection and mappings.

On my laptop while connected to the network all the time, and my hard drive
is costly spinning down because I have a fairly aggressive setting for the
hard drive to save the battery.

And, I have a Windows XP box that acts as my server at home, and again the
hard drives also are set to spin down after a fairly short period fo time.
And, they frequently spin down. However, the fact of hard drives spinning
down has NO relationship to your network connections being lost.

>
There really isn't any information on the "Turn Off Hard Disks" option in
Dell's Help. They concentrate on the Standby and Hibernate options
instead.

There's also no information on the Internet that will lay claim, or support
you speculatation here.

Now without question allowing your machine to go into standby mode is a
completely and utterly different matter. Without question when you are
connected to a backend, you under no circumstances want your computer to go
into standby mode, as that will prevent access from being able to flush out
pending disks writes. Furthermore, allowing a machine to go into standby can
often result in a break of your network conneciton, and in this case the
connection to the back end mdb. You can find many instances of people
mention this kind of problem.

So I see nothing wrong with allowing your hard drives to spin down, and they
should not cause any kind of break in your network connection in any way
shape or form. However allowing your machine to go into standby mode, or
sleep mode is another matter....

I suspect you're confusing the suspend or sleep mode a computer with that of
allowing the hard drives to spin down. I see no documentation anywhere that
says when your hard drive spins down, at the same time your network
connection is broken. As I said, I have two machinges DOING THIS ALL DAY
long, day in, and day out, and the spinning down of the hard drives has
NEVER effected my network connections in any way shape or form.
--
Albert D. Kallal (Access MVP)
Edmonton, Alberta Canada
pl*****************@msn.com

[Salad]

Albert D. Kallal wrote:

"Salad" <oi*@vinegar.comwrote in message
news:gp******************************@earthlink.co m...

>>The option "Turn Off Hard Disks" was not set to Never but to some minutes
value. So after the period of inactivity exceeded the time value in Power
Options the hard disk stopped and released the network mappings.

Having the hard disk spin down has absolutely no relationship whatsoever to
your network connection and mappings.

On my laptop while connected to the network all the time, and my hard drive
is costly spinning down because I have a fairly aggressive setting for the
hard drive to save the battery.

And, I have a Windows XP box that acts as my server at home, and again the
hard drives also are set to spin down after a fairly short period fo time.
And, they frequently spin down. However, the fact of hard drives spinning
down has NO relationship to your network connections being lost.

>>There really isn't any information on the "Turn Off Hard Disks" option in
Dell's Help. They concentrate on the Standby and Hibernate options
instead.

There's also no information on the Internet that will lay claim, or support
you speculatation here.

Now without question allowing your machine to go into standby mode is a
completely and utterly different matter. Without question when you are
connected to a backend, you under no circumstances want your computer to go
into standby mode, as that will prevent access from being able to flush out
pending disks writes. Furthermore, allowing a machine to go into standby can
often result in a break of your network conneciton, and in this case the
connection to the back end mdb. You can find many instances of people
mention this kind of problem.

So I see nothing wrong with allowing your hard drives to spin down, and they
should not cause any kind of break in your network connection in any way
shape or form. However allowing your machine to go into standby mode, or
sleep mode is another matter....

I suspect you're confusing the suspend or sleep mode a computer with that of
allowing the hard drives to spin down. I see no documentation anywhere that
says when your hard drive spins down, at the same time your network
connection is broken. As I said, I have two machinges DOING THIS ALL DAY
long, day in, and day out, and the spinning down of the hard drives has
NEVER effected my network connections in any way shape or form.

I could be confused. I have 4 options; Turn of monitor, turn off hard
disks (which caused the problem), Standby, and Hibernate. These are not
laptops but desktops. It fixed the problem at my client site.