Re: Lost hibernate & screensaver capabilities

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From: Mark L. Ferguson (marfer_mvpREMOVE_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/25/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:10:25 -0600

All the problems you mention seem to center on the shutdown feature (ACPI,
and the "S3" settings in the BIOS).

My approach would be to open BIOS setup, and 'toggle' a few of the S3
settings back and forth, restarting after, to see if that might change some
registry entry as windows starts.

Open Device Manager, see the "Computer" item, and the ACPI below that. The
Properties there might show "Standard PC" instead of "Uni-processor..." or
whatever you need. (This would indicate a need for a better BIOS) 

-- 
Mark L. Ferguson (NOT an MS-MVP)
marfers notes for windows xp 
http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/chatNotes.htm
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"Jim" <kaplanjim@attbi.com> wrote in message 
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> Somewhere in the last couple weeks my two year old HP running
> XP, SP2, lost the ability to run screen savers (which I was not
> using) and to go into Standby or Hibernate mode.  The latter
> no longer shows up in the power options menu.  The shutdown
> screen displays a greyed out option to stand by, and the HP
> hibernate button no longer does anything.  The screensaver
> wait time is greyed out and cannot be set.  It says 1 minute
> but screen saver does not run. My enegery star option to
> turn off the monitor still works.
>
> considerable e-mail traffic with HP support (and trying what
> they suggested) and a phone call from their Advance
> Support Group resulted in the following conclusion "You
> have a Windows problems and we suggest you live with
> it.  Turn the power off when you won't be using the PC"
>
> The other option suggested was a "non-destructive
> Windows recovery" using the partition with which the
> HP came to restore its original windows config.  The
> tech I actually spoke to discouraged that, and it does
> seem like in the best case it would create a lot of work
> having to reinstall a lot of patches and the two SP's,
> and in the worst case might blow away/break some
> other later installed software, so I am inclined not to
> go that route.
>
> Just wondering if anyone else out there has any
> other ideas for a fix, or whether as windows reload
> would indeed cause problems with other s/w.
>
> TIA
> Jim
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