Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 07:44:41 -0400 From: "Gennadiy Tsygan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Re: Hibernate under windows 98
If you can't get into the BIOS via "Esc" and "F1", I think I saw both DOS and Windows applications for adjusting BIOS settings on Toshiba site. Look for "HWSetup" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:01 PM Subject: Re: [LIB] Re: Hibernate under windows 98 > Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 02:57:02 +0000 > From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Re: Hibernate under windows 98 > > >From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>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. > > >Hmm ... exactly WHAT problem is this? It doesn't show the screen at which > >you're supposed to start holding down ESC or does it show that screen but > >just not respond to the keypress? > > I could either CTR-ALT-DEL and hold the ESC button, or power-down and > power-up holding down ESC. BIOS displays a few words, and then counts > memory. After that I usually get the prompt to hit F1 to enter setup. > > Instead, the system keeps beeping continuously, and the EZBios text appears > prompting for CTRL to boot from floppy... and the system goes on it's merry > way totally ignoring my steadfast finger on the ESC key. > > Don't know if this was due to my changing BIOS settings for power management > in setup that the Toshiba Power Saver kept resetting to it's configuration. > Or if it was some conflict with changing the BIOS settings and EZBios, a > dance with all 3, or some unknown factor. > > >>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. > > >Is this an L50/70 or L100/110? > > L70 > > >My L50 was set to hibernate after 10 minutes on standby which was nice but > >I've never been able to get hibernation working properly on my L100. In the > >end I just gave up and set it to disable hibernation so it'd always just go > >into standby (which isn't such a big problem given that in standby the L100 > >uses hardly any power, I lose about 1% of charge an hour compared to about > >5%-10% with my L50). > > I presume you were setting the Standby and Hibernation values for your L100 > in the Toshiba Power Saver, right? I've only gone in there to change the > various AC & battery settings for power consumption, and forgot entirely > that you set the 'Boot Mode', 'Hibernation Mode', and 'Time before standby > mode' in there. I didn't experience any problems at boot getting into BIOS > settings when I set these options from Windows. > > Matt > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > ************************************************************** > 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 > ************************************************************** > > > ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
