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Standby and Hibernate, Possible?


on Thu 03 of July, 2008 22:06 CEST, by amacinho user offline
Hi Everybody,

I managed to get a usb-based XP to use on my new Asus EEE PC. It seemd the standby is not working. Is there anyone who get it working? Is it possible?

Amac
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Aw: Standby and Hibernate, Possible?

on Fri 04 of July, 2008 15:50 CEST, by admin user offline Germany
Hi Amac,

while I cannot speak about the EEE PC itself I can tell you from my experience that in many cases standy seems to be working while it is definitely not possible to use hibernation on USB due to the fact that the USB driverstack does not fit into the SCSI/ATA miniport model.

Gerd
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Re: Standby and Hibernate, Possible?

on Fri 04 of July, 2008 18:49 CEST, by amacinho user offline
Thanks Gerd,

Now I know standby is usually working :) Do you know some starting points to solve my problem? Perhaps I could try the usb installation on another pc to check if it supports standby. If so at least I would know it has something specific to eee pc.

Amac

> Hi Everybody,
>
> I managed to get a usb-based XP to use on my new Asus EEE PC. It seemd the standby is not working. Is there anyone who get it working? Is it possible?
>
> Amac
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Aw: Re: Standby and Hibernate, Possible?

on Sat 05 of July, 2008 13:47 CEST, by admin user offline Germany
Hi Amac,

> It seemd the standby is not working. Is there anyone who get it working? Is it possible?

what exactly do you mean with that:

1. XP does not even enable the choice to initiate standby

2. XP does enable the choice to initiate standby but it does not switch over into standby when told to do so

Gerd
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Re: Aw: Re: Standby and Hibernate, Possible?

on Mon 07 of July, 2008 09:44 CEST, by amacinho user offline
Sorry for the incomplete description.

The standby choice is not enabled in the shutdown menu. Additionally, if I leave the computer idle for a while (if the get to standby option is enabled in power settings), then when I come back I find my computer not responding.

Amac

> Hi Amac,
>
> > It seemd the standby is not working. Is there anyone who get it working? Is it possible?
>
> what exactly do you mean with that:
>
> 1. XP does not even enable the choice to initiate standby
>
> 2. XP does enable the choice to initiate standby but it does not switch over into standby when told to do so
>
> Gerd
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Aw: Re: Aw: Re: Standby and Hibernate, Possible?

on Mon 07 of July, 2008 10:44 CEST, by admin user offline Germany
Hi Amac,

> The standby choice is not enabled in the shutdown menu.

so you may try to run 'powercfg /a' on a console promt to get additional information why the standby option is not active.

>Additionally, if I leave the computer idle for a while (if the get to standby option is enabled in power settings)

Do you refer to the BIOS power settings here ?

Gerd
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Re: Aw: Re: Aw: Re: Standby and Hibernate, Possible?

on Mon 07 of July, 2008 17:30 CEST, by amacinho user offline
> so you may try to run 'powercfg /a' on a console promt to get additional information why the standby option is not active.

I re-created a usb image. Now the standby option is enabled on the shutdown menu. However when I choose it the computer hangs up. The screen goes blank, the computer stops responding and the fan continues to run.

When I run the 'powercfg /a' I get the following output:
-
The following sleeps are available on this system: Standby ( S3 ) Hibernate
The following sleep states are not available on this system:
Standby (S1)
Standby (S2)
-
Amac
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Aw: Re: Aw: Re: Aw: Re: Standby and Hibernate, Possible?

on Mon 07 of July, 2008 17:47 CEST, by admin user offline Germany
> I re-created a usb image. Now the standby option is enabled on the shutdown menu. However when I choose it the computer hangs up. The screen goes blank, the computer stops responding and the fan continues to run.
>
> When I run the 'powercfg /a' I get the following output:
>
-
> The following sleeps are available on this system: Standby ( S3 ) Hibernate
> The following sleep states are not available on this system:
> Standby (S1)
> Standby (S2)

It is quite astounding that Windows enables the standby option while at the same time stating that both S1 AND S2 are not available on your system.

Anyway as long as powercfg does not report that S1 (or on some machines maybe S2) is supported on the running system there should be some kind of BIOS or driver issue that might prevent Windows from successfully entering these sleep states.

At that point I may only give you the advice to go on resolving the cause that makes powercfg reporting 'S1/S2 not reported'. This however goes beyond the scope of USBoot and USB booting in general and I am no expert on that very subject.

Note however that though Windows reports S3 to be supported, it will fail to activate hibernation due to the fact that the USB driver stack lacks some functionality required.

Gerd
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Re: Aw: Re: Aw: Re: Aw: Re: Standby and Hibernate, Possible?

on Mon 07 of July, 2008 21:16 CEST, by amacinho user offline
Thanks for the help though. I managed to accomplish something:

The powercfg /a showed that the S3 level was available. I opened the Device Manager, under the computer branch, there was an item named ACPI Uniprocessor PC. I changed it to Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) PC.

Now standby operation executes, the computer is put to sleep (the led starts blinking slowly). But when I try to resume by pressing the button once the led light is turned on, the wifi led is on but that's all. nothing happens after that.

Amac

> > I re-created a usb image. Now the standby option is enabled on the shutdown menu. However when I choose it the computer hangs up. The screen goes blank, the computer stops responding and the fan continues to run.
> >
> > When I run the 'powercfg /a' I get the following output:
> >
-
> > The following sleeps are available on this system: Standby ( S3 ) Hibernate
> > The following sleep states are not available on this system:
> > Standby (S1)
> > Standby (S2)
>
> It is quite astounding that Windows enables the standby option while at the same time stating that both S1 AND S2 are not available on your system.
>
> Anyway as long as powercfg does not report that S1 (or on some machines maybe S2) is supported on the running system there should be some kind of BIOS or driver issue that might prevent Windows from successfully entering these sleep states.
>
> At that point I may only give you the advice to go on resolving the cause that makes powercfg reporting 'S1/S2 not reported'. This however goes beyond the scope of USBoot and USB booting in general and I am no expert on that very subject.
>
> Note however that though Windows reports S3 to be supported, it will fail to activate hibernation due to the fact that the USB driver stack lacks some functionality required.
>
> Gerd
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Standby and Hibernate, Possible?

on Sun 13 of June, 2010 14:43 CEST, by windgers user offline
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I managed to get a usb-based XP to use on my new Asus EEE PC. It seemd the standby is not working. Is there anyone who get it working? Is it possible?
>
> Amac

I have met the same problem. I am using Acer Aspire 4736z. The system freezes during waking up. Any hints?
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