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Standby mode - A7V266-E
I never used to be able to get standby or hibernate on my A7V266-E -- it
just wasn't available in the various places you're supposed to enable it. Recently I had a catastrophic disk failure and ended up replacing the disk and reinstalling W2k. Shazam -- now hibernate and standby work!! Except hibernate takes forever -- haven't timed it but I'd guess at least a minute to shut down, and almost 2 minutes to wake up again, and this is only with 512MB RAM -- so it's no faster than a normal shutdown. (Other than the obvious benefit of having all the apps open when you wake up.) I tried standby, and discovered I can't wake up from it. The CPU wakes up, the fans spin, but the monitor doesn't turn on. I'm flying blind so I have to kill power and reboot it. How can I get the monitor to wake up when standby wakes up? Also: I have to hit the power switch to wake it up. What does it take to get the keyboard/mouse to wake it up from standby/hibernate? The mouse might be a challenge, since it's a USB wireless optical, but the keyboard uses a plain old PS2 plug. Thanks, Gary |
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I tried standby, and discovered I can't wake up from it. The CPU
wakes up, the fans spin, but the monitor doesn't turn on. I'm flying blind so I have to kill power and reboot it. How can I get the monitor to wake up when standby wakes up? Hello? Anybody? No guesses why the monitor doesn't turn on? Also, I tried setting the screen saver to go into Hibernate after an hour. Doesn't work. I can manually initiate Hibernate but the screen saver does nothing. What am I doing wrong? Gary |
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In article , Gary Fritz
wrote: I tried standby, and discovered I can't wake up from it. The CPU wakes up, the fans spin, but the monitor doesn't turn on. I'm flying blind so I have to kill power and reboot it. How can I get the monitor to wake up when standby wakes up? Hello? Anybody? No guesses why the monitor doesn't turn on? Also, I tried setting the screen saver to go into Hibernate after an hour. Doesn't work. I can manually initiate Hibernate but the screen saver does nothing. What am I doing wrong? Gary Get a copy of "dumppo" from Microsoft. It can tell you whether your system is set up properly for S3 or S4. (Note: This FTP server can be cranky at times. Don't be surprised if it gives you trouble.) ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Products/Oem...cpi/dumppo.exe To get S3 or S4 (suspend to RAM or Hibernate) to work properly, sometimes there is a BIOS setting that contributes, the OS has to be installed with ACPI support, and if the OS install was done while the BIOS wasn't set up properly, then dumppo's admin override option can be used to try to fix it. As for what is happening to your system, I would take a look at the Event Viewer, to see if there were any errors happening just as the system was entering S3 or S4. I hope that dumppo can tell you whether some hardware or driver is currently not ready to support the mode you are trying to use. HTH, Paul |
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In article , Gary Fritz
wrote: (Paul) wrote: Get a copy of "dumppo" from Microsoft. It can tell you whether your system is set up properly for S3 or S4. OK, got it, though there seems to be almost no documentation of how to use it. "dumppo admin" says the min/max sleep states are S1/S4, so it seems to be OK for standby (s3) and hibernate (s4). "dumppo cap" says S1 S3 S4 S5 are supported. Which makes sense, because it DOES standby and hibernate OK. It's just the waking up from standby -- and seeing anything on the screen -- that's a problem. The system wakes up but the monitor stays turned off. BTW Hibernate from the screen saver suddenly started working. But it seemed like my network connection was hosed when it woke up (!?) so I disabled it. Standby is probably a better answer for me, if I can just get it working right. As for what is happening to your system, I would take a look at the Event Viewer, to see if there were any errors happening just as the system was entering S3 or S4. Not that I can see. Thanks Paul, Gary I don't really know what else to do for a problem like this. Dumppo is the only "trick" I know of. The S3 standby thing, relies on your power supply delivering a steady +5VSB while the computer sleeps. If that source of power drops, even for an instant, the contents of DRAM would be corrupted, and waking would then be a problem. When you "cannot see anything", do you have any way to tell if the OS is running ? If you have another computer, can you ping the newly awakened machine ? If hibernate sort of works, but S3 standby does not, then a weak power supply could make the difference. There is usually a green LED on the motherboard, and it is powered by +5VSB. If that LED blinks as you are sleeping or waking the machine, that could indicate a bad PSU. One blink of the LED, and all the contents of DRAM are gone. Other than that, you would need a lab full of equipment, to debug what is happening. Looking here, there was a fix for resume from standby in BIOS 1006. I assume you are using a BIOS later than that, and this site doesn't have all the release notes: http://www.a7vtroubleshooting.com/in...index.htm#266e ******* Hmmm. I just checked Google, and you've worked on this problem last year. I also see in Google, that other people have had trouble with this stuff. The BIOS has a couple of settings, one being "Suspend To RAM Capability", and while no one names the setting as such, they imply if you flash upgrade the BIOS, the default of [No] that results, can cause Windows to only use S1 Suspend. The setting in the manual right next to that, is "Suspend Mode". Now, it looks like a violation of the ACPI concept, in that the BIOS in that case can cause entry to standby. I would think a setting of [disabled] would make the most sense here, as generally you cannot have both the BIOS and the OS controlling a resource at the same time. I also see mention of "PNP OS" [No] as helping. That is the default I think. Someone also mentioned changing the power scheme in Windows to "Laptop". That seems a bit far-fetched. This seems to suggest some amount of interaction between settings that is going to be pretty hard to track down. On most boards, usually one BIOS setting that mentions STR, is enough to get this to work. At this rate, you could be flipping levers for weeks on end, trying to find the right combination. Paul |
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Thus spake Paul:
Snipped This seems to suggest some amount of interaction between settings that is going to be pretty hard to track down. On most boards, usually one BIOS setting that mentions STR, is enough to get this to work. At this rate, you could be flipping levers for weeks on end, trying to find the right combination. Paul I had issues with this motherboard with ACPI until I reformatted then reinstalled WinXP with STR set to On in the bios. Remaining problems were solved by bios upgrades. MS suggest that PnP OS is set to Off for XP/W2k. Fortunately, my monitor woke OK 90% of the time until a Bios upgrade sorted it but until it did, I set the main power switch to Hibernate which on resume, always brought the monitor out of standby. -- Thank people in advance? Thanking or cursing them afterwards at least gives some feedback! |
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