On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:13:03 -0400, Paul wrote:

wrote:
: On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:44:52 -0700, Andy wrote:
:
: :All you should have to do is uninstall the old graphics driver,
: :reboot, then install the new graphics driver, and reboot again.
:
: OK, so I downloaded the latest nVidia WHQL driver, the one you linked me
: to today ( 169.21_forceware_winxp_32bit_english_whql.exe ) and I was
: about to do as you say above when I thought I'd continue what I was
: doing earlier in the day before I took a break from all this -- I had
: done a google on "standby greyed out" and got lots of hits. On the
: second Google page was this one:
:
: http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=81547
:
: A guy suggested the fellow having the problem do an Everest Home Edition
: report and paste it in a post. Having the program already installed, I
: did a report and started searching through it for a clue. I left off at
: around 25% into the long report. Just now, I decided to look further
: into the report before uninstalling my display driver and installing the
: new one. I noticed this about my rather newish 500 GB SATA HD:
:
: [ SAMSUNG HD501LJ (S0MUJ1PP310938) ]
:
: ATA Device Properties:
: Model ID SAMSUNG HD501LJ
: Serial Number S0MUJ1PP310938
: Revision CR100-10
: Parameters 969021 cylinders, 16 heads, 63
: sectors per track, 554 bytes per sector
: LBA Sectors 976773168
: Buffer 16 MB (Dual Ported, Read Ahead)
: Multiple Sectors 16
: ECC Bytes 4
: Max. PIO Transfer Mode PIO 4
: Max. UDMA Transfer Mode UDMA 6 (ATA-133)
: Active UDMA Transfer Mode UDMA 5 (ATA-100)
: Unformatted Capacity 516064 MB
:
: ATA Device Features:
: SMART Supported
: Security Mode Supported
: Power Management Supported
: Advanced Power Management Not Supported
: Write Cache Supported
: Host Protected Area Supported
: Power-Up In Standby Not Supported
: Automatic Acoustic Management Supported
: 48-bit LBA Supported
: Device Configuration Overlay Supported
:
: ATA Device Manufacturer:
: Company Name Samsung
: Product Information
: http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/index.htm
: - - - -
: In particular, I noticed where it said:
:
: Advanced Power Management Not Supported
: ...and...
: Power-Up In Standby Not Supported
:
: So, I figuring it was another wild goose chase (I've been doing them all
: weekend trying to resolve this!), I went into the BIOS and disabled SATA
: HD support. Upon rebooting, my 500 GB SATA drive is no longer seen, but
: my Standby and Hibernate are suddenly ENABLED!
:
: I find this amazing. SATA HD's are supposed to be an advance, a relative
: newcomer in the PC storage scene, and installing one has disabled my
: ACPI! I wonder if there is a workaround? Maybe if I get an SATA
: controller card?? Or maybe if I get a different SATA HD?
:
: Dan
:
:I checked my Everest report, and I have an older Seagate drive, not even
:a SATA drive. My ATA Device Features are the same as yours, only
:my "Automatic Acoustic Management" is "Not Supported". And my ACPI
:is working. I'd say you're on to something, but it may not be the
:hard drive. It could be the driver that controls the SATA interface,
:whatever one is being used. Possible drivers would be a default
:Microsoft one, or a chipset driver you installed when you used
:the motherboard CD.
:
:There is a program called "dummpo.exe" you can get from Microsoft. One
:web site (a site in France), showed an example where dumppo had highlighted
:a driver as not being compatible with ACPI. Implying that dumppo could
:detect a problem. I'm not as hopeful myself, suspecting that it cannot
:detect every problem. But maybe, if it uses the same logic and checks
:the same facilities as the OS does, it will arrive at a correct answer.
:
:Look for "LEGACY DRIVER DETECTED" on this page. This is a very large web page,
:so allow a couple minutes for it to render. This is an archived copy.
:
:http://web.archive.org/web/200404040...ndows2000.html
:
umppo runs in a DOS command box, and doesn't have a GUI. The following
:is from a previous posting.
:
:*******
:ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Products/Oem...cpi/dumppo.exe
:
:dumppo options:
:
: CAP = Capabilities
: PS = Power Supply
: BS = Battery Supply
: ADMIN = Administration
: AC = AC Power Settings
: DC = DC Power Settings
: AC MAXSLEEP=Sx
: AC MINSLEEP=Sx
: where x is the ACPI value (1 & 3)
:
:You run the program in a command (DOS) window, and a basic command to
:try would be "dumppo cap" to get capabilities.
:
:Some other users having fun with Dumppo he
:
:"dumppo admin /ac minsleep=S3"
:http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.p...8&postcount=31
:*******
:
:HTH,
: Paul

Thanks. I had the idea to disconnect the HD from the PC and see if ACPI
was working when SATA was enabled. If it did, then I could assume that
the HD was at fault, and not the SATA driver or chip. My experiment this
morning confirmed this, i.e. ACPI still didn't work when the HD was
disconnected, so I figured I could rule out problems with the Samsung
HD. Further experimenting revealed that (while leaving SATA Enabled)
changing the "Serial ATA Function" in the BIOS from BASE to RAID
restored ACPI functionality, and that my SATA HD appears to function OK
with that setting.

I have no idea why this would be so. It's either a workaround or maybe
it's supposed to work that way, I don't know. I have no intention of
setting up a RAID array of any kind at this time. I figured that this
being the case, and having only one SATA HD installed, that BASE was the
proper setting for that function in the BIOS. Maybe I was mistaken, or
maybe it's a glitch in the driver. Maybe I should contact Gigabyte and
ask for an explanation. I'm wondering if there's a downside to running
the single SATA HD as RAID.

Unfortunately, the installation CD for this MB is unreadable. It's
fairly warped and my DVD burner can't read it. I tried to unwarp it by
pressing between flat surfaces, clamped in the oven at 150F for over an
hour, but the experiment failed! Meantime, I'd downloaded a slew of
drivers for the MB from Gigabyte's website and installed them after
loading XP Pro. I may have missed a driver, not sure. The odd thing is
that a manual was included with the MB (packaged as new, and obviously
new although the MB is from 2004 or so), that's entitled:

SATA RAID Function
(Only for Chipset SiI3112 Used)
-------------------------------------
User's Manual

However, I downloaded the driver for this (at the page for this MB), and
tried to install it and the installation failed. I looked up the spec
for the MB at Gigabyte's website and it says the included chip is
SiI3512! That's the one shown as correctly installed in Device Manager.
Since changing the Serial ATA Function from BASE to RAID, a yellow
question mark has disappeared from Device Manager for a disk controller,
so I guess that change was advisable.

Dan