new install broke suspend/hibernate - help!

I finally got my new HD from Dell. I reinstalled XP, resintalled the
drivers from Dell's website, and now everything works except stand-by
and hibernate. Does anyone know what magic incantation or file I need
to get these to work again?

Thanks.

-Joel


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"Dr. Joel M. Hoffman" wrote in message
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I finally got my new HD from Dell. I reinstalled XP, resintalled the
drivers from Dell's website, and now everything works except stand-by
and hibernate. Does anyone know what magic incantation or file I need
to get these to work again?

Thanks.

-Joel


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Try this, go to power options in control panel, make sure that the check box
is ticked under 'Hibernate'

I had the same problem when I re-installed XP.

HTH.

I finally got my new HD from Dell. I reinstalled XP, resintalled the
drivers from Dell's website, and now everything works except stand-by
and hibernate. Does anyone know what magic incantation or file I need
to get these to work again?


Try this, go to power options in control panel, make sure that the check box
is ticked under 'Hibernate'

I already tried that. Didn't help. (Dell, of course, won't help
either....)

Anyone?

-Joel


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I finally got my new HD from Dell. I reinstalled XP, resintalled the
drivers from Dell's website, and now everything works except stand-by
and hibernate. Does anyone know what magic incantation or file I need
to get these to work again?

....take 2 goats...

"Colin Wilson" o.uk wrote
in message t...
I finally got my new HD from Dell. I reinstalled XP, resintalled the
drivers from Dell's website, and now everything works except stand-by
and hibernate. Does anyone know what magic incantation or file I need
to get these to work again?

...take 2 goats...

I thought you had to use chickens.....
Damn it's so hard keeeping up to date with the latest technology.

...take 2 goats...
I thought you had to use chickens.....
Damn it's so hard keeeping up to date with the latest technology.

Chickens are generally OK with *nix systems, but if you're talking about
something M$ produced, go for the hard stuff every time :-}

I hope it works - virgins are the fallback, and getting any around here
has become quite difficult !

"Colin Wilson" o.uk wrote
in message ...
...take 2 goats...
I thought you had to use chickens.....
Damn it's so hard keeeping up to date with the latest technology.

Chickens are generally OK with *nix systems, but if you're talking about
something M$ produced, go for the hard stuff every time :-}

I hope it works - virgins are the fallback, and getting any around here
has become quite difficult !

Strap a car bomb to yourself and I think you qualify for 70 virgins

Did you install the chipset software before any drivers? Did you install
any non-Dell drivers? Using standby issues are driver related.

"Dr. Joel M. Hoffman" wrote in message
...

I finally got my new HD from Dell. I reinstalled XP, resintalled the
drivers from Dell's website, and now everything works except stand-by
and hibernate. Does anyone know what magic incantation or file I need
to get these to work again?

Thanks.

-Joel


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Did you install the chipset software before any drivers? Did you install
any non-Dell drivers? Using standby issues are driver related.

The only non-Dell drivers are the ones I had before. Yes, I installed
the chipset s/w. I don't know what order I did it in.... I grabbed
the stuff from Dell's website, and didn't see an order in which the
files were to be installed.

To be clear: the stand-by and hibernate options are greyed out. The
problem is not that they don't work. I don't even get as far as them
not working.

-Joel

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are you sure that device manager shows no other question marks meaning
devices that dont have proper drivers.
this sounds like a chipset issue to me.
ACPI to be exact.
you can also try and delete the acpi items from in the device manager
(under system topic) and then reboot and they could get reinstalled.

the power management could also be disabled undere the bios options, did
you check there?

also, do you have all your updates installed and on SP2?
there might be patches to make this work better, depending on what disk
you installed from.


Dr. Joel M. Hoffman wrote:
I finally got my new HD from Dell. I reinstalled XP, resintalled the
drivers from Dell's website, and now everything works except stand-by
and hibernate. Does anyone know what magic incantation or file I need
to get these to work again?

Thanks.

-Joel


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