I am just wondering... have you updated the bios?
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I am just wondering... have you updated the bios?
It was the first thing I did when I posted the motherboard, outside the case with one stick DDR, the monitor and a floppy drive. Reason I did so was the fact that my particular CPU was the only one specified for a particular BIOS at Gigabyte's website, and they said to use the latest BIOS, F14.Quote:
Originally Posted by NooNoo
I just today got a great tip at techsupportforums.com to try a free tool called MSC Standby Tool:
http://slicksolutions.eu/mst.shtml
It was originally for MCE but works for several OS's and can do a lot to resolve the evidently very prevalent problems encountered with reduced power states. :thumbs2:
It can be run as an exe or installed from the exe's GUI, for expanded control. I haven't installed it yet, but ran it and went into S3 Standby and successfully woke the system up after 49 minutes, which I think is a record. I don't feel so bad now that I realize that the problems I've been having are commonplace and that there are things I can do to resolve the difficulties. This tool looks terrific. Not sure it will work for me in this situation, but I'm sure going to give it a try. It has documentation, too. At the site, and also has a PDF included in the download.
Anyway, to update, I've finally gotten S3 working. Installing MCE Standby Tool and updating my drivers seem to have done it. I got the nForce_5.11_winxp2k_international_whql.exe, all of 35 MB all.in.one driver update file for nforce3 mobos from http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce3_winxp_5.11.html. Also updated my Hercules GTXP with the 2007 driver, and sound works after coming out of S3.
Glad you got it sorted dMuse.. sorry I didn't reply earlier was at a conference for a few days.
S3 works fine. A couple days ago I tried hibernation and the PC locked up trying to shut down. Happened next time too, so I may just stick with S3.Quote:
Originally Posted by NooNoo
Hibernating is different... hibernate saves everything to hiberfil.sys and shuts down. Sleep/standby still uses power.
You might have a corrupt hiberfil.sys file, or a fragmented drive or simply not quite enough drive space.
Space is there. I can try a defrag. The boot partition which has hiberfil.sys is 1/2 full, 30 GB. I'll do a defrag and also clear out the hiberfil.sys. I have a link that explains how to do that (know where to find it). If that fails, I'll just use S3. S3 uses 19-20 watts for me in Standby, and hibernation would use zero, if I turn off everything (including the wall warts), which I do a lot, anyway. In anycase, I always close anything I don't want to lose before attempting a powersaving mode.Quote:
Originally Posted by NooNoo
So if you save everything etc, why bother with hibernating or sleep? Is it just so it comes back to life quicker?
That's pretty much it. My boot process can take 2+ minutes, and that doesn't begin to account for how long it usually takes all my Firefox Windows and tabs to reload. The whole PC can be impossible to use while that process proceeds, and many pages are just loading and loading. Many applications are inaccessible until most of that loading has completed. And then it seems that some pages never fully load, they just timeout. S3 (or S4) is much preferred. Except for the power factor. S3 = 20w and S4 = 18w or 0w depending on whether I switch off the main powerstrip.Quote:
Originally Posted by NooNoo
OK, so shouldn't we be looking at your start up and seeing what can be done to improve it?
Why so many pages?
I probably have too many things loading. For instance, Superantispyware, Gigabyte easytune 5 (which I don't even use, at least yet), AVG Free, Winamp, soundcard drivers/application, HDTV remote sentry, sundry services, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by NooNoo
Pages, well, I'm not very tidy with them. I probably had 100 tabs open a couple of days ago but a rogue application/utility asked me if I wanted to open a browser page when I didn't have Firefox open, and I just looked at the message and a couple of seconds later it opted to open Firefox without restoring all my pages, and there they went! I'm down to about 25 tabs right now! I really have to get into the habit of closing them.
What on earth are you researching that requires you to have 100 tabs open?
Nothing requires that. Some are open because I forgot to close them (I'm trying to stay on top of that one). Most are open because I haven't garnered the information from them to my satisfaction and want to revisit them. Being open reminds me of that when I see them. If I close them, I'll forget about many of them.
May I introduce you to favourites and bookmarks? :D
Oh, I have them, too many.Quote:
Originally Posted by NooNoo