P4C800-E - Can't get S3 Standby to work?

[Wayne Youngman]

Hi,

I have been testing out allot of the functions on the P4C800-E deluxe, and
on the whole its a nice board. However I can't get it to *resume* from S3
standby?. It goes to sleep nicely, the LED flashes onn/off on my case
front, but when I push the power button on the case, it tries to load up but
my harddisk (7K250) just makes a funny noise and I get the BSOD?

I should have tested this before I installed SP/2, so I am not sure if it
ever worked?

Its all decent kit, CPu is a Northwood 2.6GHz, Ballistix memory, NEO-Power
480w, Hitachi 7K250. I don't see what the error is?

BIOS version is 1016

Thanks for any pointers

Wayne ][

 

[Paul]

Hi,

I have been testing out allot of the functions on the P4C800-E deluxe, and
on the whole its a nice board. However I can't get it to *resume* from S3
standby?. It goes to sleep nicely, the LED flashes onn/off on my case
front, but when I push the power button on the case, it tries to load up but
my harddisk (7K250) just makes a funny noise and I get the BSOD?

I should have tested this before I installed SP/2, so I am not sure if it
ever worked?

Its all decent kit, CPu is a Northwood 2.6GHz, Ballistix memory, NEO-Power
480w, Hitachi 7K250. I don't see what the error is?

BIOS version is 1016

Thanks for any pointers

Wayne ][

The 1017 BIOS (that seems to have been pulled), added a change
for a Hitachi drive. People had noticed problems with the
Hitachi drive, and 1017 was the first BIOS to fix it.
Of course, when a BIOS gets pulled, the release notes go
with it, into the garbage.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&[email protected]

I would try upgrading to 1017 or later, because there really
isn't much else you can do.

HTH,
Paul

 

[Wayne Youngman]

I would try upgrading to 1017 or later, because there really
isn't much else you can do.

Hi,

thanks for reply. A BIOS update may be the thing to solve it, but I noticed
it mentions the 7K400 drives, while I am using the 7K250. The system detects
the drive and boots fine normally, just when resuming from S3 standby, it
click, click, clonks and BSOD.

Does S3 Standby work for you?

Wayne ][

 

[Michael S.]

Wayne--you got my curiosity up about my new computer build that is based
upon the same motherboard (am using RAID 0 with paired Raptors) and hit the
"sleep" button on the keyboard and it worked great--the power light on the
case blinked after the computer went to sleep and it work back up to this
posting right after I hit the power button. I am running SP-2, but have not
configured anything special for this function--thus have no suggestions.

What advantage is putting a computer to sleep?? Instead of shutting off the
computer at night and starting it up cold, would it be better to put it to
sleep and wake it back up??

Good luck

MikeSp

 

[Wayne Youngman]

What advantage is putting a computer to sleep?? Instead of shutting off
the computer at night and starting it up cold, would it be better to put
it to sleep and wake it back up??

Hi,

sounds like you were using *S3* standby, also known as *Suspend-To-Ram*.
Basically just keeps a snap-shot of your system and stores it in ram, then
powers down your system but keep the current flowing to RAM. Wakes up very
fast.

There is also Hibernate, where it does the same thing except writes the info
to hard-disk.

Hmm so I wonder what is causing my problem then?

Wayne ][

 

[Paul]

I would try upgrading to 1017 or later, because there really
isn't much else you can do.

Hi,

thanks for reply. A BIOS update may be the thing to solve it, but I noticed
it mentions the 7K400 drives, while I am using the 7K250. The system detects
the drive and boots fine normally, just when resuming from S3 standby, it
click, click, clonks and BSOD.

Does S3 Standby work for you?

Wayne ][

I don't own a Hitachi drive. This is based on posts about problems
with Hitachi drives in the past. Asus and Hitachi/IBM got into a
finger pointing exercise, and it took a while before any kind of
BIOS fix showed up. All you can do is try a BIOS upgrade.

HTH,
Paul

 

[klane1*]

I had this same problem with not being able to resume from suspend. It
turned out to be a compatability problem between the system board and the
Hitachi hard drive. After I installed bios level 1017 things started to work
OK. I am currently at bios level 1018 but will be installing 1019 very soon.
Hope this helps.

What advantage is putting a computer to sleep?? Instead of shutting off
the computer at night and starting it up cold, would it be better to put
it to sleep and wake it back up??

Hi,

sounds like you were using *S3* standby, also known as *Suspend-To-Ram*.
Basically just keeps a snap-shot of your system and stores it in ram, then
powers down your system but keep the current flowing to RAM. Wakes up
very fast.

There is also Hibernate, where it does the same thing except writes the
info to hard-disk.

Hmm so I wonder what is causing my problem then?

Wayne ][