S3 mode How?

[Frank]

Whenever I was working on my PC and finished here I turned it off.
From my laptop I am used to standby that is really nice. Shut the display it
powers down and keeps XP in the ram to start in seconds when I press power.

Thats for theory.

I wanted to enable that feature on my PC, but I do not get it to work.

Its an AMD 3500+ with an A8nSLI. All drivers latest revision, PC runs
perfect. In bios I enabled S3 and now when I tell Windows to enter standby,
it blackens out the screen and shutsdown the VGA, BUT nothing else happens

The HDDs and all vents are still running and it does not respond to any
keystroke, I have to shut it down pressing the powerkey 4 secs and restart
it. Thats not what I wanted.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Blaedmon]

Im not sure, but isnt there also an option in BIOS to 'wake on
Lan/mouse/kb/etc'? or some similar option.

 

[Frank]

Im not sure, but isnt there also an option in BIOS to 'wake on

Lan/mouse/kb/etc'? or some similar option.

Yes there is. Be sure I enabled it, no change. What very suspicious to me is
that nothing really stops. no fans, no hdds, all keeps up running. That is
no standby.

Frank

 

[Paul]

Yes there is. Be sure I enabled it, no change. What very suspicious to me is
that nothing really stops. no fans, no hdds, all keeps up running. That is
no standby.

Frank

First of all, check the Computer entry in Device Manager, and
make sure you have an ACPI HAL installed. If the Computer
entry says "Standard PC", then ACPI can only be added by
doing a Repair install, and even then the repair will not
be perfect. A clean install would allow the ACPI HAL to
be installed without compromises.

Since Windows has offered you a Standby option, and judging
by the description, you seem to be in S1. It might be possible
to fix the problem with "dumppo", a utility downloadable from
Microsoft.

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Products/Oemtest/v1.1/WOSTest/Tools/Acpi/dumppo.exe

Dumppo runs from in a command window (DOS box).

From a DOS prompt, try:

dumppo ps cap # This dumps the ACPI object information
# It says whether S1 or S3 are supported
# If S3 is listed as supported, you do not
# need the following command.

dumppo admin /ac maxsleep=S3 # This is an administrative override
# command. It should add S3 to your
# capabilities. Check with the "cap"
# option again. If you want Hibernate
# then use S4.

The options for dumppo.exe are:

cap power abilities
ps Win32 System power status
bs battery status
admin Admin policy overrides
ac AC power policy
dc DC power policy

HTH,
Paul

 

[Frank]

Hello Paul,

thanks. Did it, here is the result


C:\temp>dumppo ps cap
Win32 System power status
AC line status..........: on line
Battery flag............:
Battery life percent....: 255
Battery full life time..: -1

power capabilties
System power capabilties
Power Button Present....: TRUE
Sleep Button Present....: FALSE
Lid Present.............: FALSE
System states supported.: S3 S4 S5
Hiber file reserved.....: FALSE
Thermal control.........: TRUE
CPU Throttle control....: TRUE
Processor min throttle..: 11
Processor trottle scale.: 100 (1%)
Some disk will spindown.: TRUE
System batteries present: FALSE
System batteries scale..: (G:0 C:0) (G:0 C:0) (G:0 C:0)
Ac on line wake ability.: Unspecified
Lid wake ability........: Unspecified
RTC wake ability........: S4 - hibernate
Min device wake.........: Unspecified
Default low latency wake: Unspecified


S3 and S4 both supported. Be sure my systems shows "ACPI single prozessor
machine". Thats why I do not get it.

Do you see any hint?

Frank

 

[Paul]

Hello Paul,

thanks. Did it, here is the result


C:\temp>dumppo ps cap
Win32 System power status
AC line status..........: on line
Battery flag............:
Battery life percent....: 255
Battery full life time..: -1

power capabilties
System power capabilties
Power Button Present....: TRUE
Sleep Button Present....: FALSE
Lid Present.............: FALSE
System states supported.: S3 S4 S5
Hiber file reserved.....: FALSE
Thermal control.........: TRUE
CPU Throttle control....: TRUE
Processor min throttle..: 11
Processor trottle scale.: 100 (1%)
Some disk will spindown.: TRUE
System batteries present: FALSE
System batteries scale..: (G:0 C:0) (G:0 C:0) (G:0 C:0)
Ac on line wake ability.: Unspecified
Lid wake ability........: Unspecified
RTC wake ability........: S4 - hibernate
Min device wake.........: Unspecified
Default low latency wake: Unspecified


S3 and S4 both supported. Be sure my systems shows "ACPI single prozessor
machine". Thats why I do not get it.

Do you see any hint?

Frank

Have you looked in the Event Viewer, to see if there
are any error messages being logged ? Perhaps the
computer is having a problem with a driver or
something ?

Otherwise, it looks to me like it should work.

Paul