My computer also has a 120GB hard drive. I have an nVidia Geforce 3 Ti 200, and Windows 
XP Professional. I'd love to be able to get it to STR (Suspend to RAM [S3]) correctly. 
When I hit standby in Windows, I get the preparing to standby message, and then everything 
shuts off. This includes the monitor, keyboard, mouse, all the fans, everything. 
The only indication of activity is the power light is flashing green instead of not 
showing anything at all. This is good, it shows me that it has successfully suspended 
to ram. I hit the power button, and with in 4 seconds, all my hardware; keyboard, 
mouse, monitor, etc come back on and I see my Windows exactly how I left it. But 
there is a problem. I look at my hard drive light on the front panel of my computer, 
and it is solid red. It eventually will just go off and stay off. Nevertheless, if 
I do anything in Windows that will require it to refer back to the hard drive (which 
is almost anything), Windows will begin to lock up. I will either get an "Unknown 
Hard Error",  a lock up, or a "Kernel In_page Error". 

For me, I guess the problem is that the system will resume from S3 STR, but it just 
won't bring back the hard drive. I am sure I tried all the possible power management 
settings in the bios, and still had no luck. I am just guessing, that since 120GB 
drives are fairly new, and BIOS support for them is fairly new as well, that some 
BIOS's contain a bug or don't support waking a 120Gb hard disk. I dunno, that's my 
guress. If someone is able to configure a 120GB disk with their BIOS to work with 
STR standby, please tell me your configurations.

Thanks

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