Motherboard & Hibernation ?

[Guest]

The first hardware prototypes of the product I'm working on allowed XPE to
hibernate. We have new motherboards in the second hardware prototypes and
XPE no longer hibernates. I'm assuming hibernation is a feature of ACPI, but
what am I looking to to ensure a motherboard supports hibernation?

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

You are looking to have all new drivers instaled properly for all things in your computer.
GART, Video, network, sound, etc.

Try disabling network, sound and all irelevant things in BIOS. And support GART and video with latest drivers and inf files.

Also use device manager or setupapi.log to see if all hardware was properly dectected and installed.


Regards,
Slobodan

 

[Guest]

I don't know that any of your suggestions will do much good. Prototype 1
used Intel D865XXX boards and Prototype 2 uses Intel D915XXX boards. XP Pro
or XPE do not support hibernation on the D915 boards. I never created an XPE
image for the D865 boards, they only ran XP Pro, which did support
hibernation.

The BIOS in the D915 is not complicated and doesn't have much in the ACPI
screen. Of the two settings I have to choose from, neither enables
hibernation. This leads me to believe there is a difference in features
between the two boards that is the root of the problem. I took the HD from a
D915 machine and plugged it into the D865 and the hibernation tab
mysteriously appears. Placing the HD back into the D915, it magically
disappears. It's not software.

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

harrier,

It is excelent that you can and are trying this on XP Pro.

915 uses PCI Express right and this is modern chipset and BIOS should be also advanced and more inteligent. If you doubt on BIOS
download new version and update it.
Anyhow there is no way that hibernation function was not implemented or supported in this new hardware.

Now back to the problems.
XP usualy do not have drivers and inf files that support new hardwares and it will fall back to using some generic drivers.
What you need to do is to install driver package from Intel to support your chipset. And to install latest drivers for video card,
then we can try to see what next

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[Guest]

Downloaded and installed the latest Intel chipset installer package and build
444 of the BIOS. Still no hibernation.