Gerald,
Excuse my ignorance, but what is the netcable? From the help, advice and 
suggestions of others, I think I am narrowing down what the problem actually 
is, but so far, haven't been able to actually pin-point how to fix it.

John







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>>I have a Toshiba laptop using Windows Vista. For some reason, both Sleep 
>>and Hibernate, while still working, will take
>> themselves out of that mode every 10 to 60 minutes. It never did that 
>> before. What happened and how do I fix?
>>
>> John
>
>
> My Toshiba P300 with a Phoenix BIOS and Vista Home Premium did the same.
> After shutdown it took some 15 minutes to start again automatically.
> After downgrading to Windows XP Pro the laptop does the same.
> Only if I remove the netcable after shutdown the laptop stays terminated.
> So I'm also very interested in solving this phenomenon.
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Gerard Schaefers
>
> Website: http://www.sjeef.eu/
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