Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:39:15 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Re: Hibernate under windows 98
On 24 Apr 2002, at 10:36, Matthew Hanson wrote: > Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:34:16 +0000 > From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Re: Hibernate under windows 98 > > >From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >>From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >>I've set Windows power management back to 'Always On' for AC and battery. > >>With 'Powerup = boot' reset in BIOS, I'm hoping things will go back the > >>way they were. > > >I haven't experimented at all with hibernation in W98, and never trusted it > >in W95 - it kept freezing on return from hibernation, but under linux (any > >flavour tried so far) I have had exactly one problem: the sound system > >falls over on return from hibernate. No error messages, just no sound. It > >only comes back after a power-down reset, soft reset is insufficient. > > > >The bios is set to suit me: no suspend from the panel close, button set to > >hibernate with no delay. > > I had some problems after setting 'Power-up Mode = boot / 'Standby time = > unlimited' in BIOS. I couldn't access BIOS any more! Found out that the > Toshiba 'Power Saver' settings in Windows were overriding whatever I did in > BIOS, and kept resetting whatever I changed the 'Power-up Mode' to. Had to > coax and cajole the system to get into BIOS by repeated tries. It seemed to > respond to having the FDD inserted. > > But now that I set 'Power-up Mode = Hibernation' and "'Standby time = > unlimited' in the Toshiba 'Power Saver' settings, and set the times for > 'System Standby', 'Turn of monitor' and 'Turn of hard disks' in Windows > 'Power Management' Everything is working fine. > > I could have sworn remembering a few people writing about having this > 'Standby time = unlimited' set up so their systems just wakes up pretty > instantly. > > Matt > > I have found that if you hold the esc key for a few seconds then repeatly press it while the libretto is checking memory it will enter the bios. Just pressing and holding the esc key doesn't seem to work. I am using the standby set to unlimited and really like it. It is almost like instant on. The battery doesn't seem to last very long though. Sometimes I get a delay when the hard drive is supposed to spin up. But unlike recovering fom hibernate all the ports and pcmcia cards work. John ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
