Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 06:15:46 +0000 From: "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Msgsrv32.exe hibernation problems on L100
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The problems you describe match those I had when I installed the Toshiba
utility (hairy light bulb) *after* installing the Windows 98 Power Saver driver.
Hmmm.... Interesting. I was wondering if there may have been a conflict between the Windows and Toshiba power utilities. But my search thorugh the archives didn't come up with many posts on the problem. Maybe I need to try a few other search terms. I'll look into not loading the Tosh power drivers.
Other than that, I can't offer much advice. Except to say that I have the
Power Saver settings you mentioned (Hibernation "Enabled" with the power button
set to hibernate when pressed) as standard set-up on my L100. Based on the
research and advice I got when installing W98se, I believe those settings are
required.
That was the only way I found I could get the 100 to hibernate. And I can't remember if I ever put the 100 into hibnerantion in the past.
FYI, my L100's hibernation has gotten flakey - sometimes it works, sometimes
it won't resume. Standby still works, though.
Power management under Windows has always been flaky on a lot of various systems I've worked on. Esp. setting a timeout to shut down the monitor and HDD that always seem to forget what they're supposed to be doing. I've discovered I can just go in and load a different power scheme with different timeout values, and things start working again.
If I ever get the chance to install the 40GB drive I've got, I'm going to really, really try to get W98 set up right: dual-booting with W2K.
Well... other than the unstable Windows power management and dead battery, I'm looking at the possibility that an improperly set hibernation area on my 20GB HDD might have caused the problem. I had set a hidden partition for hibernation, hibernated, woke the system up, and found I had lost the partition after it. Partition Magic's PartInfo utility reported problems with partition structures. It appears that somehow that was somehow the reason for my hibernation/lockup problems.
I thought I had been getting so good at setting that hibernation area using PM and WinHex after reading what Lewin Edwards had written wrote on how to calculate cylinders, sectors and heads. I got the 40GB's hibernation area set up on my L70 working well, and thought the old 20 on the 100 would be a cakewalk.
But the data W98SE writes at the beginning and end of the hibernation area is not the same on the 70CT as it is on the 100CT for some reason. On the 70, I found that W98SE was actually starting the beginning of the hibernation with characters HIBERNATION in upper case. Made doing a text search for where it started really easy.
So now after hibernating and recovering a few times as I write, I guess I'll try tweaking the parameters of the hibernation area once again.
Matt
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