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

I recently installed Windows ME. I have checked my bios to make sure that it allows the hibernation mode. In power management within the control panel, I checked "hibernation". The computer went into hibernation mode but couldn't come out of it, i.e. I had to restart the computer. This happened twice. Then I received a Windows pop message that said something to the effect that "hibernation mode has failed twice. Do you want to remove this feature" . Without thinking, I checked yes. Now that feature is unavailable in the power management section of the control panel. How do I now add that feature? I think that my original problem was related to a faulty monitor driver. I simply want to reinstall the hibernation feature. Thank you, James Fortier

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Try this, right click on My Computer, select properties, then hit the Device Manager tab, select view devices by type. Find where it says System devices and double click it, next find something called ACPI Power Button and/or ACPI System Button, highlight them with a single click, and click the remove button, and reboot the computer. Windows should find them again and reinstall Power Management. If this doesn't solve the problem get back, I know theres a couple other solutions but I can't remember them at the moment. You could also try using system restore to fix the problem, but if you're using Norton Anti-Virus be sure to disable it before you use system restore because if the virus definitions have been updated sinse this happened they will be corrupted and you'll only be able to start in Safe Mode, but if that happens anyway, uninstall NAV from Safe Mode,and when everything is fixed with power management reinstall NAV and go to symentec's website and download Hawking Tool. It repairs NAV if the system restore corrupts the NAV definitions. Hope this solves the problem.

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On Wednesday, December 19, 2001 at 2:22 pm, Krezno wrote:
>Try this, right click on My Computer, select properties, then hit the Device Manager
>tab, select view devices by type. Find where it says System devices and double click
>it, next find something called ACPI Power Button and/or ACPI System Button, highlight
>them with a single click, and click the remove button, and reboot the computer. Windows
>should find them again and reinstall Power Management. If this doesn't solve the
>problem get back, I know theres a couple other solutions but I can't remember them
>at the moment. You could also try using system restore to fix the problem, but if
>you're using Norton Anti-Virus be sure to disable it before you use system restore
>because if the virus definitions have been updated sinse this happened they will
>be corrupted and you'll only be able to start in Safe Mode, but if that happens anyway,
>uninstall NAV from Safe Mode,and when everything is fixed with power management reinstall
>NAV and go to symentec's website and download Hawking Tool. It repairs NAV if the
>system restore corrupts the NAV definitions. Hope this solves the problem. Krezno: Thank you for your response. I did as you said, removed the ACPI Power Button from Device Manager and rebooted the computer. Unfortunately, it did not resurrect my Hibernation capability. That option still is gone from Power Management. I also tried the Windows ME restore program, but returning to a previous registry also was not able to bring back the Hibernation option in Power Management. Thank you for your suggestions. Do you have any more? J.Fortier

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I'll have to do some further investigating. I can't seem to remember the other idea. I wouldn't recommend using hibernation myself because I've had too many problems with it not responding. I just have the screensaver coming on after 10 minutes, monitor power down after 15 minutes, and standby after 30 minutes. This problem is very common, so you're not alone. Hopefully someone else here will jump in with that idea I can't seem to remember. Until then you can search the Microsoft Knowledge base if you havn't yet. Go here http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo& I'm trying to help, but I have a bad memory. Thanks for your patience. :)

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I have the same problem on my ME but look for the NOHIBER.TXT file in your Windows Folder, that file will explain why ME won't hibernate. In my case I need updated drivers for my video controller. Another thing to cope with. Doug


On Wednesday, December 19, 2001 at 10:08 am, James Fortier wrote:
>I have a question about Dealing
>with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM):

>
>I recently installed Windows ME. I have checked my bios to make sure that it allows
>the hibernation mode. In power management within the control panel, I checked "hibernation".
> The computer went into hibernation mode but couldn't come out of it, i.e. I had
>to restart the computer. This happened twice. Then I received a Windows pop message
>that said something to the effect that "hibernation mode has failed twice. Do you
>want to remove this feature" . Without thinking, I checked yes. Now that feature
>is unavailable in the power management section of the control panel. How do I now
>add that feature? I think that my original problem was related to a faulty monitor
>driver. I simply want to reinstall the hibernation feature. Thank you, James Fortier
>
>

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