Stand by / Hibernate disappeared!

[Jostein Berrefjord]

Which are the indicators used by Win XP to determine whether the
hardware is capable of handling Stand By and Hibernate close down
functionality?

I've been using Hibernate for close to three years now, and there
hasn't been any change to my hardware, which is fairly simple: An ABit
IC7-MAX3 mainboard with a genuine P4 2,6 GHz, an ABit Siluro FX 5600
Ultra OTES, one PATA disk and two SATA disks in RAID0 - that's all.
Nothing special. And it has been working before.

Last week, for no appearent reason, the Stand By icon had turned gray
in the "Turn off" dialog, and in the Power Options in the Control
panel, there is no longer a tab for enabling/disabling Hibernate. The
only (temporary) change I am aware of is that I tried to install new
NVidia drivers for my display card, but received a continuous stream of
error messages reporting that the card didn't get enough electrical
power (yes, the extra power cable *is* plugged in, and I have checked
the voltage - it's OK), so I uninstalled those drivers, reverting to
the standard Windows drivers.

Does Stand By / Hibernate depend on the power supply? Could the problem
with both my display card and Stand By be related to a faulty PS? It
sure has capacity enough to run my setup (rated power: 360 W), but that
is if it is working as it should... Where else should I search for
causes of my Stand By / Hibernate problems?
(If the solution also fixes my display card's problem, allowing it to
run the NVidia driver, that would be excellent!)

 

[Guest]

try going here

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

article 204

 

[RoadRunner]

Hi ... Are you using a Direct3D-based screen saver ?

 

[Jostein Berrefjord]

Luke Chalmers:

try going here
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
article 204

Lots of useful stuff on that page, but that article 204 made no
difference to my computer. I also found, on that page, a program called
shutdown.exe and tried its "Hibernate" option - it returned Error 50.

RoadRunner:

Hi ... Are you using a Direct3D-based screen saver ?

No screen saver at all. (Well, actually it was "Blank" but changing
that to "(none)" made no difference.)

Any other suggestions are welcome!


jb

 

[RoadRunner]

Maybe its a good idea to get the latest chipset driver for your board , See
if that helps

....

 

[Alceryes]

Which are the indicators used by Win XP to determine whether the
hardware is capable of handling Stand By and Hibernate close down
functionality?

I've been using Hibernate for close to three years now, and there
hasn't been any change to my hardware, which is fairly simple: An ABit
IC7-MAX3 mainboard with a genuine P4 2,6 GHz, an ABit Siluro FX 5600
Ultra OTES, one PATA disk and two SATA disks in RAID0 - that's all.
Nothing special. And it has been working before.

Last week, for no appearent reason, the Stand By icon had turned gray
in the "Turn off" dialog, and in the Power Options in the Control
panel, there is no longer a tab for enabling/disabling Hibernate. The
only (temporary) change I am aware of is that I tried to install new
NVidia drivers for my display card, but received a continuous stream of
error messages reporting that the card didn't get enough electrical
power (yes, the extra power cable *is* plugged in, and I have checked
the voltage - it's OK), so I uninstalled those drivers, reverting to
the standard Windows drivers.

Does Stand By / Hibernate depend on the power supply? Could the problem
with both my display card and Stand By be related to a faulty PS? It
sure has capacity enough to run my setup (rated power: 360 W), but that
is if it is working as it should... Where else should I search for
causes of my Stand By / Hibernate problems?
(If the solution also fixes my display card's problem, allowing it to
run the NVidia driver, that would be excellent!)

Check out device manager and see if you have a problem with ACPI. Also
sometimes a MB's CMOS battery goes dead and resets the BIOS settings which
can in turn mess with Windows' ability to use ACPI to control power
management features like standby and hibernate.