I’m having trouble enabling ACPI STR3 “suspend to ram” in Bios.
My computer goes in standby mode all right, but when I resume, it comes up, beeps once, and shuts down. I resume again, and it simply cold boots.
This behaviour occurs both under Win2K/SP1/SP2 and Win98SE. STR1 works fine though, but it doesn’t kill my fans, and therefore is not much use (still makes too much noise to sleep).
Does anyone have this working? On what hardware? I use:
MSI K7T Turbo Raid (bios 2.5,2.6,2.7 tried them all)
Duron 600@933 (clocking back to 600 doesn’t help)
256 Mb PC133 CAS 3
On board promise RAID with 2x20 Gb Maxtor 7200 RAID 0 (striping)
Geforce MX (tried any detonator driver)
Turtle Beach montego II (aureal Vortex II), tried it without this card, same problem.
CDRW/DVD/ZIP 100/ etc…
Enermax 350W PSU
I suspect this to be a BIOS issue, since OS’s don’t make a difference, but one never knows. That’s why im wondering if anyone got it working on a similar motherboard (KT133A).
I also have an issue with the hibernate function of Win2K. Sometimes (once out 15 tries), it will just not do it. It keeps saying ‘preparing to hibernate’. I never had this before I used the promise raid, so I suspect the problem is related to it.. maybe the fact both drives are not identical (one ATA66, and one ATA100), or a driver issue with the promise raid.
Footnote:
Please don’t give me the ‘via/amd sucks, intel rules’ [-peep-]. I know Via sucks, but it was cheap, and apart from these minor issues, the system works great. It doesn’t ever crash, I mean *never* as long as I keep away from the non essential ACPI [-peep-]. And that with a cpu that is 50+% overclocked (costed me $30, for near Ghz performance). So, I am not prepared to spend $1000 to get STR3 to work. If I cannot get this resolved, I’ll still be damn happy with this setup.
---- Owner of the only Dell computer with a AMD chip
My computer goes in standby mode all right, but when I resume, it comes up, beeps once, and shuts down. I resume again, and it simply cold boots.
This behaviour occurs both under Win2K/SP1/SP2 and Win98SE. STR1 works fine though, but it doesn’t kill my fans, and therefore is not much use (still makes too much noise to sleep).
Does anyone have this working? On what hardware? I use:
MSI K7T Turbo Raid (bios 2.5,2.6,2.7 tried them all)
Duron 600@933 (clocking back to 600 doesn’t help)
256 Mb PC133 CAS 3
On board promise RAID with 2x20 Gb Maxtor 7200 RAID 0 (striping)
Geforce MX (tried any detonator driver)
Turtle Beach montego II (aureal Vortex II), tried it without this card, same problem.
CDRW/DVD/ZIP 100/ etc…
Enermax 350W PSU
I suspect this to be a BIOS issue, since OS’s don’t make a difference, but one never knows. That’s why im wondering if anyone got it working on a similar motherboard (KT133A).
I also have an issue with the hibernate function of Win2K. Sometimes (once out 15 tries), it will just not do it. It keeps saying ‘preparing to hibernate’. I never had this before I used the promise raid, so I suspect the problem is related to it.. maybe the fact both drives are not identical (one ATA66, and one ATA100), or a driver issue with the promise raid.
Footnote:
Please don’t give me the ‘via/amd sucks, intel rules’ [-peep-]. I know Via sucks, but it was cheap, and apart from these minor issues, the system works great. It doesn’t ever crash, I mean *never* as long as I keep away from the non essential ACPI [-peep-]. And that with a cpu that is 50+% overclocked (costed me $30, for near Ghz performance). So, I am not prepared to spend $1000 to get STR3 to work. If I cannot get this resolved, I’ll still be damn happy with this setup.
---- Owner of the only Dell computer with a AMD chip
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