standby replaced by hibernate on reinstall ?

[wblack]

I had a complete hard drive failure recently. The computer tech
reinstalled Win XP software on my computer. When I got it home and
tried it the first time after the reinstall when I get to the shutdown
screen instead of having the options " standby, shutdown, reboot" it
now has "hibernate, shutdown, reboot". Standby let me have the hard
drives shut down which I prefer. Hibernate seems to require the
computer to be completly shut down. Also with the previous
instalation the computer shut it self down. Now I get a screen
telling me that it's safe to shut down the computer and I have to
manually shut it down by holding in the power button for a nuber of
seconds. I can't figure out how to get back to the previous settings.

BTW I don't know if the tech actually used my Win XP disk to reload
the software or just used my license number.
Could he have installed a different version?

Walt

 

[Guest]

The repair probably set your system to "Standard PC" for ACPI. Run
devmgmt.msc, and look at 'computer' / "ACPI" / Properties. The selection of
'Multi-...' instead of standard would have enabled standby. Running setup
again would probably reset the choice to multi. Hard to guess why they chose
standard. You do it during setup, at the "Press F-6 for RAID" prompt, you
press F-7 to get standard PC