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Computer going on and off...
Hey will it waste electricity when i put my computer on standby mode but after 5 minutes it turns on again but after 1 minute it goes off in standby mode again and keeps doing that on and on. Well my computer just started acting like that since i got a new lap top. what happened was a guy from the Geek Squad came over our house to help set up the internet service to our lap top and he did somthing to my computer. well he installed my new printer for me but he also put in some kind of wireless internet service just like he did to my lap top. also he set up a new modem. after a while my internet connection was getting messed up so i decided to give my computer a system recovery. i did that and i noticed at the back of my hard drive was an antennea and i unplug that because probably it was what was causung my computer to not go on standby mode. so after that my computer does that routine again where it goes in standby but turns on again after 5 minutes and goes standby after 1 minute and repeats. so my question again is will it waste electricty? And does anyone know how to fix that kind of problem? i dont quite care if it does waste electricity i'll just have to then just completely shut it down but i highly prefer putting it in standby because i can just get on my computer in an instant rather than turning it on and waiting like 3 minutes for it to start up. lol im just the impatient type of person sometimes but i can get used to that sort of method if i must.
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the antenna is to help get better reception if you decide to use the laptop in battery mode and go truly wireless . example:taking the laptop outside and sitting on your lawn while surfing.
The reason it keeps going on and off standby is because he probably set it up in power save mode so that if you did surf in your front yard your battery would last longer.
Computers use very little electricity and if you're leaving it plugged in all the time you can disable the power save mode from your control panel
go to "start" then "control panel" then to "power options " and disable the standby mode then go to the desktop right click and empty space choose "properties" and set up a screen saver and your computer will never shut off.
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