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Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)'
Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 9:06 pm
Posted by Francois L'Archeveque (2 messages posted)

I have a comment about Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM):

I recently solved an APM problem with my Win98 system and it turns out the problem was not Windows' fault at all. The system used the boot loader GRUB v0.90 to select which operating system to boot. There was a known bug in GRUB v0.90 that left the APM bios in an inconsistent state rendering APM unusable in Windows. The "Stand by" option would be missing from the Shutdown menu and the "Advanced Power Management support" in the device manager would have an exclamation mark next to it indicating an error. Upgrading GRUB to v0.91 under RedHat 7.2 solved the problem in Windows. The bug as logged was known to affect Windows 2000 SP2 but could very well affect any Windows version since the APM bios was messed up before Windows even started booting. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54375

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re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)'
Friday, October 24, 2003 at 9:27 pm
Posted by Francois L'Archeveque (2 messages posted)

There was another problem coming out of standby (blank screen with cursor at top left) mode which I thought would be resolved with the latest video driver for my video adapter. The resume worked fine when using the basic 16 color VGA driver so the video driver seemed like the obvious culprit. The latest driver made no difference. Finally after many suspend, resume, hang, reboot cycles, an upgrade from DirectX 8 to 9a fixed the resume problem.

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