Standby modes won't work well - or at all - if your motherboard or chipset
drivers are either not present or not updated. Check with your motherboard
manufacturer for updated drivers.

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"marco" <marcop@iinetdotnet.au> wrote in message
news:D7FD443D-11B8-4386-BCE4-70DDC36D3CBE@microsoft.com...
> Is there a way of shutting down some or all the fans when the system is in
> standby? I used to have this working in Win XP using the S3 power state.
> The powercfg reports that only the (S3) Hibernate hybrid sleep state is
> available. I've had a look in the advanced power options but can find
> nothing there which might help me.
>
> The motherboard is an ASUS P5AD2 Deluxe and I have S3 enable in the bios