Is this a cmos/bios/board thing ?

[ceagle]

I have an HP laptop that doesn't wake from sleep when devices are plugged in/out of the ports, but I have a Gateway that does. It's really sorta stupid that it does. This means when I unplug the mouse moving it from one comp to the other, I always have to put the Gateway back to sleep (unless I want to just let it drift off after a while using its battery up), but the HP doesn't require this useless babysitting.

Is this something that can be changed somewhere, or is it just a fluke specific to some computers?

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[stoda.livejournal.com]

I'd check the BIOS for a "Wake on ____" setting, where ____ is something like device or USB. Not Wake on LAN, however.

[orv.livejournal.com]

I don't know, but my MacBook does the same thing.

You might see if there's a BIOS setting that controls what devices can wake the machine. Maybe it's set so it can be woken by a USB keyboard or something, which means it'd have to wake up to figure out what's plugged into it when that changes.

[furahi.livejournal.com]

You can change that in Windows "Allow USB devices to wake the computer from sleep"