HORM - Failed to Activate

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Hi,
This is a HORM question. I don't have FP 2007. I am trying to do this the
old way. I have included the components required (ACPI, EWF etc.) and
followed the procedure decribed by Alexander Wechsler in one of his talks.
When I try to activate hibernation (xpepm -hibernate), I get the following
error.
"Error 1141: The system BIOS failed an attempt to change the system power
state".
Any one knows any posible causes for this?

Kap
 
Do you have enough hard drive space to store the total amount of RAM in your
system? If not, this is one reason for the failure.

Did you also enable hibernation support in your computer (ACPI) component?

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit
 
Kap,

You should first test the regular hibernation feature on your build. Disable EWF and give it a shoot.

Things that can prevent hibernation from working:
- Some driver conflicts (check Device Manager, setupapi.log and/or devcon)
- A wrong display driver installed. Standard VGA driver, that takes place when you don't have native hardware driver installed,
doesn't support hibernation.
- Some driver states are set to disallow the system going into standby mode.
- Not enough disk space for hibernation file. Basically check here if the hiberfil.sys file is created on your system partition.
- Hibernation is not enabled or you are using wrong HAL component. (Check either in TD or with Power CPL at runtime).
 
Make sure that you have installed the correct graphics drivers. If you use
those standard drivers which are included if the correct drivers are not in
the Component DB hibernation will not be supported which of course will
prevent HORM activation.
 
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