Re: Stand by / Hibernate disappeared!


"Jostein Berrefjord" <josteber@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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.
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