Industrial One wrote:
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> That second link you sent appears to be for Win7. The XP hibernationtroubleshooting guide doesn't seem to have anything relevant to my case.
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> I tried installing a new WinXP on a seperate partition and the hibernate tab was not there at all. I also tried installing on a VM and got the same thing. Trying to do powercfg /h on returned a "not supported by your system" error. Wtf?
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> All this because I got a new HDD? Can't be, because why would the VM fail?
Power Management is via APM or ACPI. ACPI has been in usage
since at least Win2K (because I had a Win2K install fail once
because the BIOS didn't do ACPI right).
If you're not installing in a VM, check the BIOS and make sure
ACPI 2.0 is enabled in there. When the install is finished,
go to Device Manager, and check the "Computer" entry. If
you have a multi-core processor, the properties should
say "ACPI Multiprocessor PC". The ACPI is important.
If it says "Standard PC", you may have to reinstall! If
you haven't had problems doing a "regular" shutdown, then
don't despair.
If you mess up the setting for that, like specify S1 instead
of S1 & S3 or Auto in the BIOS, after the fact you can use
"Dumppo" to repair problems with things like Hibernate (S4) or
Standby Suspend to RAM (S3).
This site is down right now.
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?p=1825058&postcount=31
Try the archive, for info on running Dumppo, and a download
link from Microsoft for it. Unfortunately, the archive copy
isn't loading properly for me either. The web code could be
trying to ping the originating site.
http://web.archive.org/web/20081028...com/showthread.php?p=1825058&postcount=31
Anyway, the steps would be:
1) Enter BIOS at startup.
Power Menu:
Suspend Mode [ S1 only, S1 and S3, Auto ] Try anything but "S1 only".
I use Auto.
ACPI 2.0 Support [ Enabled ] Why Asus disables this by
default I'll never know...
2) Boot system.
3) Get a copy of dumppo and do an "Administrative Override".
This is the contents of the pcper article...
This tells you how to do the override.
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http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?p=1825058&postcount=31
05-27-2003, 04:11 PM UserID=nameless
"This isn't true, and "maxsleep" isn't what you want to change anyway -- "minsleep" is.
The "best" way to go about using STR is to enable "Suspend To RAM"
in the BIOS before installing the operating system. Unfortunately, this
isn't common knowledge, and no one (i.e. Asus) goes out of their way to
TELL you this. I didn't know myself, back in January when I built my
A7N8X Deluxe system.
The good news is that DUMPPO.EXE can correct the matter -- without having to
be run at every boot. Here's how:
1) Download DUMPPO.EXE from Microsoft (to ensure you get the correct file):
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/products/Oemtest/v1.1/WOSTest/Tools/Acpi/dumppo.exe
2) Go to a command line rooted in the directory DUMPPO.EXE resides in, and
enter this command:
DUMPPO.EXE admin
DUMPPO.EXE will list some basic information about the current sleep policies.
For example, here is what I had before correcting matters using DUMPPO.EXE:
C:\Downloads>DUMPPO.EXE admin
Admin policy overrides
Min sleep state......: S1
Max sleep state......: S4 - hibernate
Min video timeout....: 0
Max video timeout....: -1
Min spindown timeout.: 0
Max spindown timeout.: -1
The problem here is the "Min sleep state" value. When you tell WinXP to enter
standby mode, WinXP uses the "Min sleep state" setting to determine what ACPI
standby mode to use. In the case above, WinXP sees and uses S1 (which is normal
standby, where all that happens is that the hard drive(s) and monitor(s) power
down).
3) Correct the "Min sleep state" value using the following command line:
DUMPPO.EXE admin /ac minsleep=s3
4) Reboot, and when you do, go into the BIOS and ensure that the "Suspend To RAM"
value is enabled(!). [i.e S3]
5) Back in Windows, issue the DUMPPO.EXE admin command again, exactly as in step
(2), and you should see something similar to this:
C:\Downloads>DUMPPO.EXE admin
Admin policy overrides
Min sleep state......: S3
Max sleep state......: S4 - hibernate
Min video timeout....: 0
Max video timeout....: -1
Min spindown timeout.: 0
Max spindown timeout.: -1
The "Min sleep state" value should stay at S3, across reboots, and your system
should be able to enter STR mode. (Incidentally, when I ran DUMPPO.EXE,I tried
half-heartedly to monitor the registry and file system for the changes it made,
but came up with nothing.)
If your system enters STR (i.e. S3) mode properly, but does not restoreitself
properly (e.g. the monitor stays blank, you get BSOD errors, etc.), themost
likely culprit is a buggy or incompatible driver or piece of hardware.
I figured it was worth resurrecting this old thread in order to try to help..."
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HTH,
Paul
