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....yeah ...yeah ...yeah, ....I've waded through aumha.org Shutdown
problems, and Google'd and read..half the day, tweaked bios settings and
rebooted, it feels, a THOUSAND times, (it must add up to at LEAST
half a day), and I've stuffed in and ripped out EVERY SINGLE lump of driver
forceware that NVIDIA ever produced !! ...so pleeeeeeeeeeez, I am simply
posting in the hope that someone has hit a VERY similar problem on VERY
similar hardware, ....I'm getting a bit too old to spend more than most of
a whole day problem solving this s*****g thing !
What makes it really annoying, of course, is that I can easily live without
"hibernate" but, that would be admitting defeat ...wouldn't it ? !
My problem is that when I "hibernate" the thing, I get the blue progress
bar, (while ram is written to hiberfil.sys), and that's where it stays and
hangs, ....with the completed blue progress bar on a black background...
FOREVER !
....anyhoooo ,...here it is :-
XP Home ed. SP2B fully MS updated, in a freshly slapped together system,
(stuffed into my old £160 Lian-Li P60 case, which the VERY next week
PLUMMETED
down to £60, ..******** ...mutter ...mutter ! ....I digress ), :-
....new Seasonic 430w S12 II psu,
Asrock Conroe865PE skt 775 mobo
Pentium D935 (both older but cheap
2x512mb's Crucial ddr 400 (dual channel working),
2 hd's on IDE1 - master and slave, dvd rewriter and cd rewriter on IDE2 -
master and slave,
Nvidia 6200 agp,
3 1/4" floppy drive,
SB Audigy2 in pci slot 2,
Intel 537EP in pci slot 4, (pci slots 1,3, & 5
empty...particularly 5 in case the damned thing was shared with a rear ATX
USB port !)
Now, in the AMI Megatrends bios, which I reflashed to "39V040B/FB_V2"
.....< ROFL ...have you ever seen anything like it !!! > in the stupid hope
there was microcode correction for my problem, ....well I couldn't tell !
....nothing is documented at Asrock, bios version no. is in a different
format to that of
the downloads, and what's on screen in the bios itself ...well, they all do
that !, ...and almost all the labels in the bios refer to things I've
never heard of during the past 25 years in micros. e.g. a "Power
Management" label is nowhere to be seen !
there is no sign of APM or a STR1, 2 or 3 !!!
....oh , there's lots of "AUTO" 's !!!
In "Chipset Configuration, (in bios), thee's a "No execute Mem. Protection"
!!!!
.....I wonder if that's the same as the software DEN implementation in XP ?
......
....there's a "Bypass access" ....what the struuuuUUUUth is that ?
....there's also a "Flexibility option" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
....and a "Suspend to RAM" ...AHAH ! when I enable that one, a label with
STR appears, as if like magic !
....oooooh! and down at the bottomn of that screen there's a "ACPI HET
table" that I can enable or disable, ...mmmm ....I wonder if that was
anything to do with hyperthreading ....another several reboots to see if
changes to any of thos will sort itt !! ....oh well, ...more "no's"
OOOOh! for the days when one could choose, (in old PcChips BIOS "Assign IRQ
to VGA" and all of one power management problems and woes just vanished,
RIGHT before your eyes !!!
....oops, I have gone on a bit,
....anyway, I hope I've amused just a little, ...any ideas on solving this PC
hanging at Hibernat gladly accepted !
...btw, I have tried MS Q146092 changing "WaitToKillServiceTimeout" from 20m
seconds to 30 seconds (30000 milliseconds), ..no change !
TIA, ...regards, Richard
problems, and Google'd and read..half the day, tweaked bios settings and
rebooted, it feels, a THOUSAND times, (it must add up to at LEAST
half a day), and I've stuffed in and ripped out EVERY SINGLE lump of driver
forceware that NVIDIA ever produced !! ...so pleeeeeeeeeeez, I am simply
posting in the hope that someone has hit a VERY similar problem on VERY
similar hardware, ....I'm getting a bit too old to spend more than most of
a whole day problem solving this s*****g thing !
What makes it really annoying, of course, is that I can easily live without
"hibernate" but, that would be admitting defeat ...wouldn't it ? !
My problem is that when I "hibernate" the thing, I get the blue progress
bar, (while ram is written to hiberfil.sys), and that's where it stays and
hangs, ....with the completed blue progress bar on a black background...
FOREVER !
....anyhoooo ,...here it is :-
XP Home ed. SP2B fully MS updated, in a freshly slapped together system,
(stuffed into my old £160 Lian-Li P60 case, which the VERY next week
PLUMMETED
down to £60, ..******** ...mutter ...mutter ! ....I digress ), :-
....new Seasonic 430w S12 II psu,
Asrock Conroe865PE skt 775 mobo
Pentium D935 (both older but cheap
2x512mb's Crucial ddr 400 (dual channel working),
2 hd's on IDE1 - master and slave, dvd rewriter and cd rewriter on IDE2 -
master and slave,
Nvidia 6200 agp,
3 1/4" floppy drive,
SB Audigy2 in pci slot 2,
Intel 537EP in pci slot 4, (pci slots 1,3, & 5
empty...particularly 5 in case the damned thing was shared with a rear ATX
USB port !)
Now, in the AMI Megatrends bios, which I reflashed to "39V040B/FB_V2"
.....< ROFL ...have you ever seen anything like it !!! > in the stupid hope
there was microcode correction for my problem, ....well I couldn't tell !
....nothing is documented at Asrock, bios version no. is in a different
format to that of
the downloads, and what's on screen in the bios itself ...well, they all do
that !, ...and almost all the labels in the bios refer to things I've
never heard of during the past 25 years in micros. e.g. a "Power
Management" label is nowhere to be seen !
there is no sign of APM or a STR1, 2 or 3 !!!
....oh , there's lots of "AUTO" 's !!!
In "Chipset Configuration, (in bios), thee's a "No execute Mem. Protection"
!!!!
.....I wonder if that's the same as the software DEN implementation in XP ?
......
....there's a "Bypass access" ....what the struuuuUUUUth is that ?
....there's also a "Flexibility option" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
....and a "Suspend to RAM" ...AHAH ! when I enable that one, a label with
STR appears, as if like magic !
....oooooh! and down at the bottomn of that screen there's a "ACPI HET
table" that I can enable or disable, ...mmmm ....I wonder if that was
anything to do with hyperthreading ....another several reboots to see if
changes to any of thos will sort itt !! ....oh well, ...more "no's"
OOOOh! for the days when one could choose, (in old PcChips BIOS "Assign IRQ
to VGA" and all of one power management problems and woes just vanished,
RIGHT before your eyes
!!!....oops, I have gone on a bit,
....anyway, I hope I've amused just a little, ...any ideas on solving this PC
hanging at Hibernat gladly accepted !
...btw, I have tried MS Q146092 changing "WaitToKillServiceTimeout" from 20m
seconds to 30 seconds (30000 milliseconds), ..no change !
TIA, ...regards, Richard
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