Won't start from standby or hibernate

[Martin Magnusson]

Hi, I hope this is the right forum for this question.

My comp with XP SP1 won't start from hibernating or standby. It used to
be that it would just hang on the "Preparing to standby/hibernate"
stage, but after I downgraded my video driver (I'm using an MSI GeForce2
card) it does enter standby and hibernate mode.

When I try to start from standby, the fans and disk spin up again, but
the screen remains blank, and the computer does not seem to responde to
anything I do (except for powering off by keeping the power button
depressed).

When I try to start from hibernate, the computer boots and Windows goes
through the "Resuming Windows" screen. After that, nothing more happens,
except that the HDD LED is constantly lit, but I can hear no activity
from the HDD.

I have an Abit nForce2 motherboard and a single SATA HDD. The ACPI
suspend type in BIOS is set to S1.

Any ideas of what to try?

Thanks,
martin

 

[Alex Nichol]

My comp with XP SP1 won't start from hibernating or standby. It used to
be that it would just hang on the "Preparing to standby/hibernate"
stage, but after I downgraded my video driver (I'm using an MSI GeForce2
card) it does enter standby and hibernate mode.

When I try to start from standby, the fans and disk spin up again, but
the screen remains blank, and the computer does not seem to responde to
anything I do (except for powering off by keeping the power button
depressed).

When I try to start from hibernate, the computer boots and Windows goes
through the "Resuming Windows" screen. After that, nothing more happens,
except that the HDD LED is constantly lit, but I can hear no activity
from the HDD.

It is probably that video card. Some devices and their drivers (and
video quite a common one) just do not re-initialise on returning from
standby. About all you can do is look for another driver version that
*does* work. Try the ones direct from www.nvidia.com rather than ones
either with the board or from windows update