[Captain]

I am having the same problem and can not get an answer from anyone.

Standby use to work before installing a Netgear WGR614 wireless router. My
Dell 8300 and cable modem are directly connected to the router and all work
fine except that the computer can never enter standby, poping up the same
error "System Standby failed. The device driver for the Communications Port
(COM 1) device preventing the machine from entering standby mode".

Netgear has no answers and I was hoping someone here might have a guess or
two.

Drew


"LOUIS MILLER" wrote:

> Try to use Standby on a Windows XP computer (service pack 2).
>
> receive message.... System Standby failed. The device driver for the
> Communications Port (COM 1) device preventing the machine from entering
> standby mode.
>
> The mouse does the work.
> Have a dialup modem which is not used. Have DSL connected to a wired
> router.
>
>
>

[shawn13_canada@hotmail.com]

I think it may be the wake on lan feature in the bios.
Just disable it and see if that works.

Shawn.
CCNP.


"Captain" wrote:

> I am having the same problem and can not get an answer from anyone.
>
> Standby use to work before installing a Netgear WGR614 wireless router. My
> Dell 8300 and cable modem are directly connected to the router and all work
> fine except that the computer can never enter standby, poping up the same
> error "System Standby failed. The device driver for the Communications Port
> (COM 1) device preventing the machine from entering standby mode".
>
> Netgear has no answers and I was hoping someone here might have a guess or
> two.
>
> Drew
>
>
> "LOUIS MILLER" wrote:
>
> > Try to use Standby on a Windows XP computer (service pack 2).
> >
> > receive message.... System Standby failed. The device driver for the
> > Communications Port (COM 1) device preventing the machine from entering
> > standby mode.
> >
> > The mouse does the work.
> > Have a dialup modem which is not used. Have DSL connected to a wired
> > router.
> >
> >
> >