Windows98 on IBM Aptivas

Windows 98 and
Wake Up On Ring
One Win98 issue that several users have reported is a tendency of the IBM Advanced Power Management feature of "Wake Up On Ring" to function unpredictably in a Windows 98 environment.

This will commonly take the form of the system sporatically "deciding" to turn it self on for no reason, and all efforts to disable WUOR through normal methods (by setting Wake Up On Ring to Disabled in Rapid Resume Manager, etc) fail as WUOR becomes reenabled after rebooting.

By most reports the following procedure appears to successfully and permanently resolve this issue:
  1. Right-Click on My Computer
  2. Click Properties
  3. Choose the Device Manager tab
  4. Click the [+] next to System Devices
  5. Click Advanced Power Management support once to select
  6. Click the Properties button
  7. Choose the Settings tab
  8. Check the box that says "Force APM 1.0 Mode"
  9. Click OK


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