RE: Older PC stands-by only momentarily

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How old is old?
One of these days I've got to push the blacklist year patch
to set it to 1999...

dmidecode will tell you the BIOS date.

>ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S5) and /sys/power/state == "standby disk".

S1 is generally worthless -- making the system unusable,
but not saving any poer.

See if the BIOS allows you to enable S3 instead of enabling S1.

>If I do a echo -n "standby" >state, then it appears to suspend for 1-3
>seconds, power light blinking, etc. Then comes back to life. I cannot
>figure out what is waking it up. acpitool say all wakeup devices are
>disabled.

dunno.  disconnect as many devices and unload as many device
drivers as possible.

cheers,
-Len
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