re: Power Management XP Home Edition
Sunday, November 18, 2001 at 7:32 pm
Posted by richard
(119 messages posted)
this is real elementary suggestion,but here goes gateway wont support you when you
call in, so go to their site and have your client id and serial number, this wil
bring up your specific machine info and available updates, look for a bios update
for xp, this could restore the missing functionalities
On Sunday, November 18, 2001 at 6:02 pm, dbyrd wrote:
>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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