No hibernation available

G

Guest

Hi guys,

This is a question that has had me going for ages, and really need to get an
answer to it.. so here goes..

I have a HP laptop - which is well and good, and it has a completely retail
version of XP PRO sp2 on it as I didn't want to use HOME (OEM) which came
installed. So I happily installed XP PRO without a problem. Everything is
fine apart from one thing...

Hibernation and standby are simply not available. When I mean unavailable -
I mean in the POWER options, there is no tab for hibernation. When pressing
shift on shutdown, hibernation does not appear. Infact, standby is also
unavailable - even when holding shift or not! All the power down options I
have are log off, shut down and restart.

Also noticing that although the options in power is set to standy by over 20
mins when on battery - it doesnt. Infact it does nothing at all, doesnt even
turn the monitor off.

So it seems either do not work. Does anyone have any ideas how to firstly
get standby to work and then maybe hibernation - which is mainly what I am
after, and I used to use that all the time with my old laptop.

Hope someone can help here.

Kind regards,

Pierce Lynch
 
J

Julian

This is normally related to settings in your BIOS. Have a look at your POWER
settings in your BIOS and make changes to see if you get the option in
Windows. (Sorry, I can't remember what the exact setting should be)
 
M

Malke

Pierce said:
Hi guys,

This is a question that has had me going for ages, and really need to
get an answer to it.. so here goes..

I have a HP laptop - which is well and good, and it has a completely
retail version of XP PRO sp2 on it as I didn't want to use HOME (OEM)
which came installed. So I happily installed XP PRO without a problem.
Everything is fine apart from one thing...

Hibernation and standby are simply not available. When I mean
unavailable - I mean in the POWER options, there is no tab for
hibernation. When pressing shift on shutdown, hibernation does not
appear. Infact, standby is also unavailable - even when holding shift
or not! All the power down options I have are log off, shut down and
restart.

Also noticing that although the options in power is set to standy by
over 20 mins when on battery - it doesnt. Infact it does nothing at
all, doesnt even turn the monitor off.
When you did your clean install, did you also install all HP's drivers
and specialized laptop software, including power management software?
If not, go to their tech support website for your specific model laptop
and download drivers and software.

Malke
 
G

Guest

Should of mentioned, have done so already - no power options avaliable :(

If i rememer rightly, the OEM install of HOME did work fine with hibernation
- as I remember seeing it there for the short 2 hours it was installed for.

:( Nothing in registry or anything like that??

P
 
G

Guest

Hi guys,

Thanks for all the suggestions there .. worked it out in the end after some
investigation into the power managment features mentioned by Malke. Thanks.

Turns out - it was a dodgy install of display driver, affecting the ACPI
feature driver or something, which then wasn't allowing windows to use
certain power features as a resource.

Anyway, all sorted now. Thanks for your help.

P
 

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