The Open Office suite is quite well supported by the developing group, with several knowledgeable people participating at their Forum. I wish I could say the same in the case of MS Office…
So, if you traced your problem down to presentation applications, you could post there about this detected problem and possibly receive an useful answer.

At the same time, you could be providing your five cents of good feedback to that very active group, always trying to debug and improve the free OOF suite.
Posting the results here will also be useful for everybody.

I’m just reposting a previous mail I sent here as there are now so many entries you might not pick it up. I think for most systems this is the simplest quickest solution which is reliable :

I too have struggled with this problem for months – and been frustated by no obvious way to debug it. However yesterday I came across the following alternative :
ShutdownOne Home
http://www.dimaware.com/shutdown/shutdown1home.html

The Home edition is free , and it worked perfectly on the XP machines I tried it on . It doesn’t do all the things that the MS builtin is supposed to do like just turn off discs – but it does standby or hibernate, which is all most people need, and it works reliably. I suspect there are millions of pcs around the world where auto hibernate/standby doesn’t work and most people just give up trying to fix it. So this little utility (maybe there are others like it ) could potentially save a huge amount of energy.

Start from a cold boot, everything works fine. Write a file to a remote network drive and the computer fails to sleep or hibernate (unless you do it manually). This after closing all running applications. Reboot and everything works OK again.

There’s a microsoft knowledge base entry (from Cyanna at The Elder Geek on Windows XP) that addresses part of this problem. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914804/

It seems to be for SP3. I tried it with SP-2 and had to take it out as my remote network computers were no longer visable from the machine I installed it on.

I am curious if the video driver will have anything to do with? Windows released an update back in Dec 2009 which caused quite a bit of problems with Dell Optiplex 745 and this is the same model the client is currently using.

All power settings have been checked and the BIOS also checked and still can’t find anything to fix this. Does anyone know of a fix to this?

I had a Hibernation problem and I had to look around quite a bit.
My hibernation disappeared one day, and I I went through all the usual suspects. Power management, video drivers…

Then I use the PowerCfg.exe on a DOS prompt, that if you combine properly, gives you a lot of good info:
First calling
Powercf /a to see what were the none available mode can give you a clue on why a PC will only hibernate or not accept Standby etc..

PowerCfg /DEVICEQUERY all_device_verbose > C:\DevicesList.txt

This will create an exhaustive list of device and their different mode support… Although a bit rough to decipher, this can give you clue on what is give you a problem

I also use dumppo.exe cap admin ( google dumppo.exe which is a Microsoft utility) Dumppo will most likely be your friend as it allows you to configure the Standby/Hibernation scheme properly

Finally, in my particular case, I used an utility call SigVerif.exe, I remark that I was able to get Hibernation/Standby to work for few seconds before logging on (on he logging screen of XP, you may find the Turn Off icon, showing the different off options). After 30sec or so the Standby will gray out…

I use sigverif exactly like describe here (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/kelly93.mspx) and bingo, I found 29 unsigned drivers and one of them just wasn’t letting my system to standby

Only cost me 4 days of hunt….

Power settings:
Pluged In On Batt Power
Turn off Monitor/Hard Disks Never 15 minutes
Standby Never 30 minutes
Hibernate Never 2 hrs

Any ideas?