S205 XP won't stay on standby, can't adjust screen timeout

A couple of weeks ago I bought an S205 without OS and installed my own copy of XP on it (SP3). I spent a long time trying to dual boot with Linux but the UEFI system seems to prevent this... I'm not tech enough to understand why, but I gave up trying after a week tearing my hair out.
Anyway, XP runs nice and quick now but I have 2 problems with it.
1 - When I put the computer in standby mode it wakes itself up sometimes for no reason. This happens even when there are no applications open.
2 - The screen turns itself off after 1 minute. I have installed Lenovo Power Management, and no matter what the settings are in this, the screen ALWAYS turns itself off after 1 minute. Checked in Windows Power settings, but the Lenovo software seems to override these.
Any help or advice much appreciated. Thanks

Hi, this detailed decription of settings LEM for XP ...
seems that something gave a wakeup order...
be sure that nothing unusual is hidden in startup msconfig ...
regards KK
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