Power Management XP Home Edition
Sunday, November 18, 2001 at 6:02 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dbyrd
(1 messages posted)
Like some users, after installing XP Home I am experiencing power management failures.
Previously with Win98 my pc would go into standby correctly, which I liked very
much, but now standby is gone and hibernate doesn't work either. I have a Gateway
350 PII built in late 1998. When enabling apm and hibernate in windows, hibernate
doesn't work (which I feel is useless anyway) and there are no settings for standby.
When I click "Turn Off" the computer restarts. I have tried different combinations
of settings in BIOS and Windows but nothing seems to work correctly or at all. Two
reinstalls and still the same problems. Have contacted Gateway and they do not offer
support for XP because it was not shipped installed in the PC. I would like to at
least have standby available. Hibernate does not work correctly either. If I set
it to automatically hibernate, it shuts down and restarts. Do the othere settings
such as screen saver and monitor power settings effect these features. I have tried
holding down the shift key when hovering over the hibernate key but the standby key
does not appear. When I disable hibernation the standby key is faded out and clicking
it causes no response. Nothing in my apm seems to work at all. If I have everything
enabled as installed, I cannot turn off the computer, it will only restart.
Any suggestions would help. Microsofts Knowledge Base was not much help either.
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