Re: Motherboard & Hibernation ?

harrier,

It is excelent that you can and are trying this on XP Pro.

915 uses PCI Express right and this is modern chipset and BIOS should be also advanced and more inteligent. If you doubt on BIOS
download new version and update it.
Anyhow there is no way that hibernation function was not implemented or supported in this new hardware.

Now back to the problems.
XP usualy do not have drivers and inf files that support new hardwares and it will fall back to using some generic drivers.
What you need to do is to install driver package from Intel to support your chipset. And to install latest drivers for video card,
then we can try to see what next

Regards,
Slobodan




"harrier" <harrier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:241E0B9B-87CA-4723-9913-E4BBA1F42A69@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I don't know that any of your suggestions will do much good. Prototype 1
> used Intel D865XXX boards and Prototype 2 uses Intel D915XXX boards. XP Pro
> or XPE do not support hibernation on the D915 boards. I never created an XPE
> image for the D865 boards, they only ran XP Pro, which did support
> hibernation.
>
> The BIOS in the D915 is not complicated and doesn't have much in the ACPI
> screen. Of the two settings I have to choose from, neither enables
> hibernation. This leads me to believe there is a difference in features
> between the two boards that is the root of the problem. I took the HD from a
> D915 machine and plugged it into the D865 and the hibernation tab
> mysteriously appears. Placing the HD back into the D915, it magically
> disappears. It's not software.
>
> "Slobodan Brcin (eMVP)" wrote:
>
> > You are looking to have all new drivers instaled properly for all things in your computer.
> > GART, Video, network, sound, etc.
> >
> > Try disabling network, sound and all irelevant things in BIOS. And support GART and video with latest drivers and inf files.
> >
> > Also use device manager or setupapi.log to see if all hardware was properly dectected and installed.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Slobodan
> >
> > "harrier" <harrier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:16ABDD43-63AE-46A1-AA3F-756243D933E5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > The first hardware prototypes of the product I'm working on allowed XPE to
> > > hibernate. We have new motherboards in the second hardware prototypes and
> > > XPE no longer hibernates. I'm assuming hibernation is a feature of ACPI, but
> > > what am I looking to to ensure a motherboard supports hibernation?
> >
> >
> >


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