Lost Hibernate Tab

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mickey

I'm running windows 2000 professional.

Sometime ago I noticed that the notebook refused to suspend. Further
investigation revealed that the "Hibernate" tab under the control-panel
power-option disapeared.

I tried updating the OS with the original CD, but that didn't work.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can regain the "Hibernate" tab,
without re-installing the OS?
 
Thanks John, but the various links didn't seem to help.

I should clarify, now that I know there are actually two issues here.

My PC used to have two mode of power-down; Standby and Hibernate.
Both are non-functional now.

What I really want to recover is the "Standby" function. Apparently the
"Hibernate" function was a OEM installation - although the OEM no longer
makes PC's they still had the setup program for the "Hibernate" mode. The
setup is supposed to add a partition to the disk, but is must run under MSDOS
because it needs to access the HD directly - and Win 2000 will prevent it.
The OEM instructions for using the setup program said to start windows up in
MSDOS mode, well Win 2000 doesn't have an MSDOS mode startup [the instruction
also applied to Win 98 which did]. I found other instructions which said to
use a recovery disk, but there was still no way to generate a purely MSDOS
disk. I tried one for another PC and got MSDOS up, but when I run the setup
program it says there is insufficient space for the minimum space (400M).
Actually there is enough space, but its all part of the existing partition.
Either this program requires a partition to be pre-established, or its just
not working.

Anyway it's possible that the lost of the Hibernate partition killed the
Standby mode, although I thought they were separate functions.

I was able to run the APMSTAT program mentioned in your link reference, but
all the program said "This is an ACPI machine, APM is NOT relevent on this
machine".

It seemed the references in your link suggest that ACPI and APM can co-exist.

As I said I'm actually not really concerned about the "Hibernate"
[save-to-disk] function, but I would like to recover the Standby mode, and
none of the referneces on the knowledge center seem to apply or help. Do you
have any other suggestions?

M.
 
A hunch here, try reinstalling the video drivers.

John
Thanks John, but the various links didn't seem to help.

I should clarify, now that I know there are actually two issues here.

My PC used to have two mode of power-down; Standby and Hibernate.
Both are non-functional now.

What I really want to recover is the "Standby" function. Apparently the
"Hibernate" function was a OEM installation - although the OEM no longer
makes PC's they still had the setup program for the "Hibernate" mode. The
setup is supposed to add a partition to the disk, but is must run under MSDOS
because it needs to access the HD directly - and Win 2000 will prevent it.
The OEM instructions for using the setup program said to start windows up in
MSDOS mode, well Win 2000 doesn't have an MSDOS mode startup [the instruction
also applied to Win 98 which did]. I found other instructions which said to
use a recovery disk, but there was still no way to generate a purely MSDOS
disk. I tried one for another PC and got MSDOS up, but when I run the setup
program it says there is insufficient space for the minimum space (400M).
Actually there is enough space, but its all part of the existing partition.
Either this program requires a partition to be pre-established, or its just
not working.

Anyway it's possible that the lost of the Hibernate partition killed the
Standby mode, although I thought they were separate functions.

I was able to run the APMSTAT program mentioned in your link reference, but
all the program said "This is an ACPI machine, APM is NOT relevent on this
machine".

It seemed the references in your link suggest that ACPI and APM can co-exist.

As I said I'm actually not really concerned about the "Hibernate"
[save-to-disk] function, but I would like to recover the Standby mode, and
none of the referneces on the knowledge center seem to apply or help. Do you
have any other suggestions?

M.

:

Try here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/266169

John

mickey wrote:
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I do remember reading abouta link between the video drivers and the Standby
mode. How do I go about identifying them and then re-installing?


John John (MVP) said:
A hunch here, try reinstalling the video drivers.

John
Thanks John, but the various links didn't seem to help.

I should clarify, now that I know there are actually two issues here.

My PC used to have two mode of power-down; Standby and Hibernate.
Both are non-functional now.

What I really want to recover is the "Standby" function. Apparently the
"Hibernate" function was a OEM installation - although the OEM no longer
makes PC's they still had the setup program for the "Hibernate" mode. The
setup is supposed to add a partition to the disk, but is must run under MSDOS
because it needs to access the HD directly - and Win 2000 will prevent it.
The OEM instructions for using the setup program said to start windows up in
MSDOS mode, well Win 2000 doesn't have an MSDOS mode startup [the instruction
also applied to Win 98 which did]. I found other instructions which said to
use a recovery disk, but there was still no way to generate a purely MSDOS
disk. I tried one for another PC and got MSDOS up, but when I run the setup
program it says there is insufficient space for the minimum space (400M).
Actually there is enough space, but its all part of the existing partition.
Either this program requires a partition to be pre-established, or its just
not working.

Anyway it's possible that the lost of the Hibernate partition killed the
Standby mode, although I thought they were separate functions.

I was able to run the APMSTAT program mentioned in your link reference, but
all the program said "This is an ACPI machine, APM is NOT relevent on this
machine".

It seemed the references in your link suggest that ACPI and APM can co-exist.

As I said I'm actually not really concerned about the "Hibernate"
[save-to-disk] function, but I would like to recover the Standby mode, and
none of the referneces on the knowledge center seem to apply or help. Do you
have any other suggestions?

M.

:

Try here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/266169

John

mickey wrote:


I'm running windows 2000 professional.

Sometime ago I noticed that the notebook refused to suspend. Further
investigation revealed that the "Hibernate" tab under the control-panel
power-option disapeared.

I tried updating the OS with the original CD, but that didn't work.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can regain the "Hibernate" tab,
without re-installing the OS?
Click to expand...
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Device Manager | Display Adapters should give you the information as
well as an option to update the drivers.

John
I do remember reading abouta link between the video drivers and the Standby
mode. How do I go about identifying them and then re-installing?


:

A hunch here, try reinstalling the video drivers.

John

mickey wrote:

Thanks John, but the various links didn't seem to help.

I should clarify, now that I know there are actually two issues here.

My PC used to have two mode of power-down; Standby and Hibernate.
Both are non-functional now.

What I really want to recover is the "Standby" function. Apparently the
"Hibernate" function was a OEM installation - although the OEM no longer
makes PC's they still had the setup program for the "Hibernate" mode. The
setup is supposed to add a partition to the disk, but is must run under MSDOS
because it needs to access the HD directly - and Win 2000 will prevent it.
The OEM instructions for using the setup program said to start windows up in
MSDOS mode, well Win 2000 doesn't have an MSDOS mode startup [the instruction
also applied to Win 98 which did]. I found other instructions which said to
use a recovery disk, but there was still no way to generate a purely MSDOS
disk. I tried one for another PC and got MSDOS up, but when I run the setup
program it says there is insufficient space for the minimum space (400M).
Actually there is enough space, but its all part of the existing partition.
Either this program requires a partition to be pre-established, or its just
not working.

Anyway it's possible that the lost of the Hibernate partition killed the
Standby mode, although I thought they were separate functions.

I was able to run the APMSTAT program mentioned in your link reference, but
all the program said "This is an ACPI machine, APM is NOT relevent on this
machine".

It seemed the references in your link suggest that ACPI and APM can co-exist.

As I said I'm actually not really concerned about the "Hibernate"
[save-to-disk] function, but I would like to recover the Standby mode, and
none of the referneces on the knowledge center seem to apply or help. Do you
have any other suggestions?

M.

:



Try here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/266169

John

mickey wrote:



I'm running windows 2000 professional.

Sometime ago I noticed that the notebook refused to suspend. Further
investigation revealed that the "Hibernate" tab under the control-panel
power-option disapeared.

I tried updating the OS with the original CD, but that didn't work.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can regain the "Hibernate" tab,
without re-installing the OS?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Thanks John,

I figured it out and used the device wizard to re-install the display driver
from the original CD. Unfortunately it didn't make any difference.

M.

John John (MVP) said:
Device Manager | Display Adapters should give you the information as
well as an option to update the drivers.

John
I do remember reading abouta link between the video drivers and the Standby
mode. How do I go about identifying them and then re-installing?


:

A hunch here, try reinstalling the video drivers.

John

mickey wrote:


Thanks John, but the various links didn't seem to help.

I should clarify, now that I know there are actually two issues here.

My PC used to have two mode of power-down; Standby and Hibernate.
Both are non-functional now.

What I really want to recover is the "Standby" function. Apparently the
"Hibernate" function was a OEM installation - although the OEM no longer
makes PC's they still had the setup program for the "Hibernate" mode. The
setup is supposed to add a partition to the disk, but is must run under MSDOS
because it needs to access the HD directly - and Win 2000 will prevent it.
The OEM instructions for using the setup program said to start windows up in
MSDOS mode, well Win 2000 doesn't have an MSDOS mode startup [the instruction
also applied to Win 98 which did]. I found other instructions which said to
use a recovery disk, but there was still no way to generate a purely MSDOS
disk. I tried one for another PC and got MSDOS up, but when I run the setup
program it says there is insufficient space for the minimum space (400M).
Actually there is enough space, but its all part of the existing partition.
Either this program requires a partition to be pre-established, or its just
not working.

Anyway it's possible that the lost of the Hibernate partition killed the
Standby mode, although I thought they were separate functions.

I was able to run the APMSTAT program mentioned in your link reference, but
all the program said "This is an ACPI machine, APM is NOT relevent on this
machine".

It seemed the references in your link suggest that ACPI and APM can co-exist.

As I said I'm actually not really concerned about the "Hibernate"
[save-to-disk] function, but I would like to recover the Standby mode, and
none of the referneces on the knowledge center seem to apply or help. Do you
have any other suggestions?

M.

:



Try here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/266169

John

mickey wrote:



I'm running windows 2000 professional.

Sometime ago I noticed that the notebook refused to suspend. Further
investigation revealed that the "Hibernate" tab under the control-panel
power-option disapeared.

I tried updating the OS with the original CD, but that didn't work.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can regain the "Hibernate" tab,
without re-installing the OS?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Did you check in the BIOS to make sure that the features aren't
disabled? Other than that I don't have any other suggestions.

John
Thanks John,

I figured it out and used the device wizard to re-install the display driver
from the original CD. Unfortunately it didn't make any difference.

M.

:

Device Manager | Display Adapters should give you the information as
well as an option to update the drivers.

John

mickey wrote:

I do remember reading abouta link between the video drivers and the Standby
mode. How do I go about identifying them and then re-installing?


:



A hunch here, try reinstalling the video drivers.

John

mickey wrote:



Thanks John, but the various links didn't seem to help.

I should clarify, now that I know there are actually two issues here.

My PC used to have two mode of power-down; Standby and Hibernate.
Both are non-functional now.

What I really want to recover is the "Standby" function. Apparently the
"Hibernate" function was a OEM installation - although the OEM no longer
makes PC's they still had the setup program for the "Hibernate" mode. The
setup is supposed to add a partition to the disk, but is must run under MSDOS
because it needs to access the HD directly - and Win 2000 will prevent it.
The OEM instructions for using the setup program said to start windows up in
MSDOS mode, well Win 2000 doesn't have an MSDOS mode startup [the instruction
also applied to Win 98 which did]. I found other instructions which said to
use a recovery disk, but there was still no way to generate a purely MSDOS
disk. I tried one for another PC and got MSDOS up, but when I run the setup
program it says there is insufficient space for the minimum space (400M).
Actually there is enough space, but its all part of the existing partition.
Either this program requires a partition to be pre-established, or its just
not working.

Anyway it's possible that the lost of the Hibernate partition killed the
Standby mode, although I thought they were separate functions.

I was able to run the APMSTAT program mentioned in your link reference, but
all the program said "This is an ACPI machine, APM is NOT relevent on this
machine".

It seemed the references in your link suggest that ACPI and APM can co-exist.

As I said I'm actually not really concerned about the "Hibernate"
[save-to-disk] function, but I would like to recover the Standby mode, and
none of the referneces on the knowledge center seem to apply or help. Do you
have any other suggestions?

M.

:




Try here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/266169

John

mickey wrote:




I'm running windows 2000 professional.

Sometime ago I noticed that the notebook refused to suspend. Further
investigation revealed that the "Hibernate" tab under the control-panel
power-option disapeared.

I tried updating the OS with the original CD, but that didn't work.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can regain the "Hibernate" tab,
without re-installing the OS?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
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Don't know if what I'm about to say is accurate ... your hibernate
question is causing my mind to REALLY have to look back.

As I recall, the partition W2K is loaded on MUST have enough free space
for a hibernate file to be formed else hibernate will not be available.
As for standby .. don't know why it is not available ... related to MOBO
specific chipset/power saving drivers?? That may be something to look
into.
___
 
There's nothing in the BIOS that specfically references "Standby". The only
thing in the BIOS refers to the "Side-step" technology, and thats on.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Cheers.

John John (MVP) said:
Did you check in the BIOS to make sure that the features aren't
disabled? Other than that I don't have any other suggestions.

John
Thanks John,

I figured it out and used the device wizard to re-install the display driver
from the original CD. Unfortunately it didn't make any difference.

M.

:

Device Manager | Display Adapters should give you the information as
well as an option to update the drivers.

John

mickey wrote:


I do remember reading abouta link between the video drivers and the Standby
mode. How do I go about identifying them and then re-installing?


:



A hunch here, try reinstalling the video drivers.

John

mickey wrote:



Thanks John, but the various links didn't seem to help.

I should clarify, now that I know there are actually two issues here.

My PC used to have two mode of power-down; Standby and Hibernate.
Both are non-functional now.

What I really want to recover is the "Standby" function. Apparently the
"Hibernate" function was a OEM installation - although the OEM no longer
makes PC's they still had the setup program for the "Hibernate" mode. The
setup is supposed to add a partition to the disk, but is must run under MSDOS
because it needs to access the HD directly - and Win 2000 will prevent it.
The OEM instructions for using the setup program said to start windows up in
MSDOS mode, well Win 2000 doesn't have an MSDOS mode startup [the instruction
also applied to Win 98 which did]. I found other instructions which said to
use a recovery disk, but there was still no way to generate a purely MSDOS
disk. I tried one for another PC and got MSDOS up, but when I run the setup
program it says there is insufficient space for the minimum space (400M).
Actually there is enough space, but its all part of the existing partition.
Either this program requires a partition to be pre-established, or its just
not working.

Anyway it's possible that the lost of the Hibernate partition killed the
Standby mode, although I thought they were separate functions.

I was able to run the APMSTAT program mentioned in your link reference, but
all the program said "This is an ACPI machine, APM is NOT relevent on this
machine".

It seemed the references in your link suggest that ACPI and APM can co-exist.

As I said I'm actually not really concerned about the "Hibernate"
[save-to-disk] function, but I would like to recover the Standby mode, and
none of the referneces on the knowledge center seem to apply or help. Do you
have any other suggestions?

M.

:




Try here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/266169

John

mickey wrote:




I'm running windows 2000 professional.

Sometime ago I noticed that the notebook refused to suspend. Further
investigation revealed that the "Hibernate" tab under the control-panel
power-option disapeared.

I tried updating the OS with the original CD, but that didn't work.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can regain the "Hibernate" tab,
without re-installing the OS?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Yes, the "Hibernate" function requires a special partition. It was installed
by the OEM; the OEM provided software, which states that there is
insufficient space to re-create the partition - I don't know if there is a
way to free-up some of the space of the primary partition without destroying
the existing data.

Originally I thought that the loss of the "Hibernate" function might have
affected the "Standby" mode, but from everything I've read they appear to be
independent functions.

M.
 
mickey said:
Yes, the "Hibernate" function requires a special partition. It was installed
by the OEM; the OEM provided software, which states that there is
insufficient space to re-create the partition - I don't know if there is a
way to free-up some of the space of the primary partition without destroying
the existing data.
Click to expand...

I've never resized a partition before, too chicken I guess, but MANY
other do it often with great success. The tool I've heard most mentioned
is Partition Magic. Perhaps you'll want to give it a try. Perhaps others
will chime in with their preference.
 
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