Standby not available in WinXP Pro

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Alfred

I have a Pentium II 350 machine running WinXP Pro. APM is enabled. It is
using an AOpen AX6BC motherboard with the latest BIOS. However standby is
always greyed out in the Windows shutdown menu. As well there is no option
for shutdown under Power Management. Under the BIOS there are options for
Standby. Why isn't WinXP giving me the option to use standby?
 
A

Alex Nichol

Alfred said:
I have a Pentium II 350 machine running WinXP Pro. APM is enabled. It is
using an AOpen AX6BC motherboard with the latest BIOS. However standby is
always greyed out in the Windows shutdown menu. As well there is no option
for shutdown under Power Management. Under the BIOS there are options for
Standby. Why isn't WinXP giving me the option to use standby?
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Because WinXP Standby and Hibernation depend on the presence of
acceptable ACPI - the later power management method. As you have it
installed with APM. you do not have ACPI
 
A

Alfred

How do I install ACPI?

Alfred

Alex Nichol said:
Because WinXP Standby and Hibernation depend on the presence of
acceptable ACPI - the later power management method. As you have it
installed with APM. you do not have ACPI
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C

CS

The ACPI HAL is installed by default if XP detects a motherboard and
BIOS that is ACPI compatible. Yours is probably not compatible and
therefore you will not be able to use the "Standby" feature. Even if
you were to force an ACPI HAL to be used during the install process,
XP would crash the first time you tried to use "Standby".
How do I install ACPI?

Alfred
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A

Alfred

Yes but in my BIOS CMOS there is a setting for ACPI. Under power management
I have "ACPI function" set to enabled. Given the option here I therefore
assume that my AOpen AX6BC motherboard (with most recent BIOS) supports
ACPI.
The problem must be with WinXP no?

CS said:
The ACPI HAL is installed by default if XP detects a motherboard and
BIOS that is ACPI compatible. Yours is probably not compatible and
therefore you will not be able to use the "Standby" feature. Even if
you were to force an ACPI HAL to be used during the install process,
XP would crash the first time you tried to use "Standby".
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