A7V333 Windows 2000 hibernate problem

[John Skilleter]

I'm having a problem with hibernation on Windows 2000 on my A7V333.

Usually, when I try to use Windows' hibernate command, the machine
brings up the 'preparing to hibernate' message then the screen goes
blank for a few seconds (sometimes with a flashing text-mode cursor in
the top left) then it returns to the desktop, rather than saving the
hibernate data to disk and shutting down.

Very occaisionally, hibernation _will_ work, but there is no obvious
pattern to when it will or won't work - it doesn't seem to be any
specific program that I'm running that is preventing it as I've tried
shutting applications down before hibernating and it doesn't seem to
make any difference to whether it will hibernate or not.

Any suggestions as to what I can try to make it work more reliably
would be appreciated.

The machine is an A7V333 with an Athlon 1900XP, 1.5Gb RAM, a pair of
40Gb drives on the primary IDE controller and a CDROM on the slave.
The RAID controller is disabled and it is running Windows 2000 SP2.
The graphics card is a Matrox G450, the only other card in the machine
is an Intel PRO/100+ PCI network card. I'm using PS/2 keyboard and
mouse and don't have anything plugged into either the USB or Firewire
ports.

John Skilleter

 

[the gnome]

Hibernationis only meant to work in jumper free mode (or the other, can't
remember which) so refer to the manual.

the_gnome

 

[John Skilleter]

Hmmm.....

Just downloaded the latest manual and it doesn't mention hibernation
at all.

John

 

[the gnome]

Hmm, I will have to look for my manual.

As another option, do you have the correct sleep state/power setting in the
BIOS, may be S3 but then I am not too sure about that.

the_gnome