ibm thinkpad, win2K professional SP4, can't login after standby

From: Richard (microsoft_at_anotherdeadcowboy.com)
Date: 01/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:21:17 -0800

very strange, clean new install, no network, I log in as
Administrator (the only account) when I boot up no
problem, but when reawakening from standby mode, I can't
log in ("username or password unknown"), I have to
poweroff again. Any ideas? Many thanks, Richard

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