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Serial drivers preventing standby mode

I have installed a PCMCIA-RS232/2 card in my Dell
Notebook with Windows XP-Pro, and I often get the following error message, when the system is trying to go to standby mode.
The device driver for the Serial adapter is preventing the system from entering into standby mode.
I tried removing the PCMCIA card, and still this message appears and Windows can not go to standby mode.
Can anyone please let me know how to fix this.
Thanks.
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Ssa,

You may find this thread helpful:
http://exchange.ni.com/servlet/ProcessRequest?RHIVEID=101&RPAGEID=135&HOID=50650000000800000047460000&UCATEGORY_0=_246_%24_13_&UCATEGORY_S=0

However, the answer is that at this point hibernation / standby is not supported by the serial driver in Windows 2000. If you have removed the card and the computer will still not engage standby mode, please either uninstall the NI-Serial driver (through Add/Remove Programs) or try disabling the extra serial ports through Device Manager.

This is an open issue and as the other thread states "it's on our to-do list."

Thank you!

Alan
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
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Thanks, Alan.
Please let me know when any new driver is released.
Thanks
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