On Mon, 05 May 2008 10:58:38 -0700, Dan Musicant )
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:On Sun, 04 May 2008 15:00:18 -0700, Andy wrote:
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::On Thu, 01 May 2008 19:31:04 -0700, Dan Musicant )
::wrote:
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::On Thu, 01 May 2008 16:25:59 -0700, Dan Musicant )
::wrote:
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:::After going back to the RAID driver, in an effort to make Standby and
:::Hibernate function properly I wasn't happy because it just said "Raid
:::Controller" for the device. It used to specify Silicon Image etc. So I
:::went to SI's website and downloaded and installed the lastest RAID
:::driver for the device, version 1.0.60.0, dated 2/2007. It's not
:::correctly described, and the install went a lot easier because there was
:::a .cpl file, which Windows was looking for. Will have to monitor the
:::ACPI behavior.
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::The experiment failed. I just tried to restore from hibernation and the
::system went into deep sleep, no video, the numlock light on... ergo,
::reset. Anyone have any idea what might be wrong?
::
::The motherboard has problems with standby and possibly hibernation. I
::bought the GA-K8N Pro with an Athlon 64 3000+ in January 2004 and used
::it primarily as a DVR for nearly four years. I don't recall any
::details, but probably because standby and/or hibernation did not work
::reliably, I always manually turned on the computer when I wanted to
::record a program.
::
::Since I replaced the K8N Pro with a GA-945P-S3 and E2140 dual core
::CPU, scheduled recordings now wake up the computer from standby and
:
lace it back to sleep after the recording is done.
::
::To refresh my memory, I dug out my K8N Pro board and installed Windows
::XP on both an IDE drive, and an SATA drive. For both installations,
::standby does not work. When coming out of standby, the power supply
::turns on, but the power LED remains dark; for Windows on the IDE
::drive, the drive busy LED remains dark, and for Windows on the SATA
::drive, the drive busy LED flashes twice every two seconds. The power
::button can turn the power supply on and off, but the hardware is in
::such a state that the reset button cannot reset the motherboard/CPU.
::The only way to get the computer working again is to recycle the +5
::volt standby power. However, hibernation seems to work, but this is
::with just an FX-5500 graphics card installed.
::
::If you want reliable standby and hibernation, I suggest getting a
::motherboard that has been made within the last two years. Boards that
::work fine for me include MSI 945GM3-F, MSI 945P Neo3-F,
::GA-8I945GZME-RH, GA-945P-S3, and GA-M61P-S3,
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:Thanks very much for posting this and for digging out your old GA K8N
:Pro mobo and testing. My results are similar except that reset works,
:whereas the power button does not... that is unless I hold it down,
robably for 4+ seconds, although I do not have the 4+ seconds option
:for power button response selected in the BIOS. I haven't been paying
:attention to the power LED. My only booting partition at the moment is
n an IDE drive, although I plan to add some more. My plans were to
:install on other partitions of the same HD, not on my SATA drive.
:
:I suspected that the problem was involved with the motherboard, but your
ost was needed to drive the point home. I just ran a pass on my two new
:sticks of PC3200 DDR (1 GB each), with memtest86 v3.2, to test the
ossibility that I was suffering from bad memory. The pass gave no
:errors. It's a good idea to have run that test, in any case. I figured
:my next step was to swap out my nvidia 6600 GTOC AGP for my nvidia 4600
:AGP and see if there is a difference. Even if Standby and Hibernate
:function with that display card, I'm not sure I want to use that card
:regularly. I might for a while, since I would like to use sleep modes
:daily, but only occasionally use dual display. Besides, I can use the
:VGA output from the 4600 card to drive the 2nd monitor if I want to.
:
:Meantime, I'll keep an eye out for those motherboards you suggest.
:
:Truly, I haven't used any sleep modes with my PCs for years, since
:hibernate stopped working on my Windows 2000 system, but having recently
:gotten a laptop (Lenovo T60), I've come to appreciate Standby and rue
:the fact that I can't use it on my office machine.
I checked out all the MB's you suggested, and the last looks most
attractive among the lot, mainly because of the 4 PCI slots, making it
more suitable as an HTPC, which mine does as well as other general
computing tasks. I need two slots just for my HDTV card and
daughterboard. I also use firewire occasionally, so onboard firewire or
at least an open PCI slot for my firewire card would be nice. I fax
occasionally, using a PCI modem, so that takes a slot. Not having a
firewire connection on the front of my case, I rely on one on the back
somehow.
Another socket 754 AGP board would be easiest for me because I could use
my CPU and video card and DDR PC3200. Do you have any idea of the
GIGABYTE GA-K8NS PRO
That's socket 754, etc. Do you think it might also have ACPI issues?
It's an nforce3 250, so maybe those issues were worked out by then.
TIA
Dan