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I am bothered by the same problem. I bought my 701C from PC Connection around August of last year. I know these two things. Lotus Organizer doesn't do it. (Shameful since IBM owns Lotus.) Sidekick doesn't do it. When you get the info, I'm also interested. Its obvious that a calendar program should manage this setting so the laptop will come out of resume to issue a reminder. I spent a lot of time on the phone with IBM support about this. They really weren't very helpful. They knew of no available software for this and couldn't put me in touch with anyone who knew the right calls. I just subscribed and I expect this list will be much more useful. They suggested leaving the laptop on all of the time. In theory this is fine since the "auto" settings should minimize power use. In practice, I have noticed that the audio circuitry doesn't turn itself off when not in use. Yesterday I updated the BIOS to the current rev and I haven't checked to see if anything has changed. Please pardon if I'm repeating past info. I haven't checked the archive yet. Does anyone with a 701C notice that sometimes the battery is dead when you don't expect it to be ? New BIOS may address this - that's why I upgraded. Gabor J.Toth writes... > > Hi folks, > > I have a TP-701 and I'm looking for some means of setting its resume > alarm (that can bring it out from suspend at a given time) *from > software*. You can set this alarm from the BIOS setup menu OK but that > won't do for me for a number of reasons (let me not list them). My > question is, does anyone know of any program that can set the alarm? > Better yet, does anyone know what BIOS function call can be used to set > it? Or even better, does anyone know where to get a full BIOS call > specification? > > Any help will be warmly welcome. > > -,- - - -,- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Gabor J.Toth jtoth@princeton.edu http://www.princeton.edu/~jtoth > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > -- Jonathan Sherred office phone: (408) 341-5248 sherred@hal.com http://www.hal.com/users/sherred/ HAL Computer Systems Silicon Valley - Campbell, CA, USA