New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

standby, hibernate, acpi problems

post #1 of 10
3/18/03 at 2:01pm
Thread Starter 
Hello!

I hava a new 8887 and so far I love it. After getting it, with XP newly installed, standby & hibernate worked just fine. Now, after installing different things, neither works. Hibernate says, "Preparing to Hibernate" and standby says, "Preparing to Standby". Both hang at that point and I have to hit the power button for 4 seconds to power off.

The list of things I installed is fairly lengthy. It includes (but is not limited to):

AVG antivirus
Kerio firewall
Netgear wireless
Office XP
various games
etc.

I've tried disabling AVG, Kerio, and Netgear to no avail. I've tried switching back to standard pc mode and back...no go. I've tried removing the ACPI devices and letting them get reinstalled on reboot. Nothing works. I'm frustrated. There has to be a solution out there. It used to work.

Any thoughts? I've searched the forums but found no real answer.

thanks!
Reply
Reply
post #2 of 10
3/18/03 at 2:10pm

Re: standby, hibernate, acpi problems

Quote:
Originally posted by pr0ph3t
...I've tried disabling AVG, Kerio, and Netgear to no avail. I've tried switching back to standard pc mode and back...no go. I've tried removing the ACPI devices and letting them get reinstalled on reboot. Nothing works. I'm frustrated. There has to be a solution out there. It used to work...
Typically, I blame Microsoft stuff. Ironically, it is their own updates and software that breaks their OS the most.

Did you do any "Automatic Updates" ? I've seen that break many things w/o people knowing (that's why I always recommend to turn it off). The only solution I can think of is long and involved:
Reformat, reinstall... one app at a time, testing hibernate/standby after each one is installed, thus tracking down the culprit.

Perhaps someone has a better solution (like BIOS update or drivers).

-myrkat
Reply
Reply
post #3 of 10
3/18/03 at 2:19pm
If you have 1gb of ram in your system, there's a problem which can be fixed with a patch. Check the search button in the forums... I'm to tired to.
Reply
Reply
post #4 of 10
3/18/03 at 2:54pm
Thread Starter 
SOLVED!!!

After much digging/searching, and experimentation, I found the problem to be Kerio Personal Firewall. I uninstalled this and all is well.

Anyone recommend a good free firewall for xp?

-jeff
Reply
Reply
post #5 of 10
3/18/03 at 3:16pm
Quote:
Originally posted by pr0ph3t
SOLVED!!!

After much digging/searching, and experimentation, I found the problem to be Kerio Personal Firewall. I uninstalled this and all is well.

Anyone recommend a good free firewall for xp?

-jeff
Zone Alarm (the non-pro version).

Stay away from Black Ice Defender. Sygate is another nice one (but not free).

I bought Zone Alarm Pro when I hooked up my broadband and wifi network. It's not too bad. I liked Sygate Personal a little better (use it at work), but Zone Alarm Pro also has extra features like pop-up blocking (for people still foolish enough - or forced - to run Internet Explorer), as well as an anti-virus (I think - I don't use any of the extra stuff).

I wish there was an "AVG" of the firewall world. An excellent free version.

-myrkat
Reply
Reply
post #6 of 10
3/18/03 at 4:12pm
Thread Starter 
Well, Kerio seems to be the "AVG" of the firewall world. It's a great product. I'm torn now between giving up hibernate and standby, or Kerio. Decisions, decisions!
Reply
Reply
post #7 of 10
3/18/03 at 4:16pm
Quote:
Originally posted by pr0ph3t
Well, Kerio seems to be the "AVG" of the firewall world. It's a great product. I'm torn now between giving up hibernate and standby, or Kerio. Decisions, decisions!
Well, I never use hibernate or standby, so I'd stick with the Firewall...

Of course, I am not really "off-and-on" on the laptop all day, so hibernate/standby doesn't make sense for me. I am either goin' at it or not. On or Off, for me.

-myrkat
Reply
Reply
post #8 of 10
3/19/03 at 9:17am
Well, the firewall software shouldn't disable standby. Maybe check any Ferio forums at their site or send email to their tech support. Maybe they have seen this before or can at least identify what parts of Ferio (which you might be able to disable) would cause this.
Reply
Reply
post #9 of 10
3/19/03 at 6:03pm

I hate those things...

Hibernate and Standby ?? why would you want to do that?? I am not jesting - I want to know a genuine reason other than laziness to shut down and start up again.

I never use standby unless I am walking a few 100 meters with the laptop - I just shut the screen and walk. Any longer than 5 minutes on standby - I SHUT DOWN and SHUT UP

Most of the time I just turn off the screen after 1 minute (while defragging drives other than c drive) and HDD after 3 minutes. I never let the system standby.

On battery power I have set 10% for warning - do nothing and 2% for critical - force shutdown - no standby again.

I agree with myrkat - standby and hibernate are more trouble than they are worth...
Reply
Reply
post #10 of 10
3/19/03 at 7:14pm

Re: I hate those things...

Quote:
Originally posted by gsferrari
Hibernate and Standby ?? why would you want to do that?? I am not jesting - I want to know a genuine reason other than laziness to shut down and start up again.

I never use standby unless I am walking a few 100 meters with the laptop - I just shut the screen and walk. Any longer than 5 minutes on standby - I SHUT DOWN and SHUT UP

Most of the time I just turn off the screen after 1 minute (while defragging drives other than c drive) and HDD after 3 minutes. I never let the system standby.

On battery power I have set 10% for warning - do nothing and 2% for critical - force shutdown - no standby again.

I agree with myrkat - standby and hibernate are more trouble than they are worth...
You see I'm just the oppisite (btw I cant spell worth a darm) I have never, ever shutdown my pcs. I think its a habit of working with too many servers. But none of my pcs are off at home right now, I have my lappy go into standby when I close the lid so when I'm done with it I just close the lid, when I want to use it again I open the lid within a few seconds. Works great for me.

Vash
Reply
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home