How do I troubleshoot ACPI on Wind XP?

Post #116,754

9/5/03 11:40:05 AM

It does some odd things after returning from sleep or hibernation (reboot being the least of them). Does that shite leave any log files anywhere? This is a new computer: Asus MB (nForce), Athlon 2500+, WD 80G 7200 rpm HD, 512 Crucial 333MHz memory (-32M for onboard video). Nothing non-standard, all "Designed for XP".

I just want to know what exactly fails on restore...

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Post #116,790

by inthane-chan

9/5/03 2:58:12 PM

No idea.

I usually just disable ACPI on any non-laptop.

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Post #116,818

by orion

9/5/03 9:51:09 PM

Re: How do I troubleshoot ACPI on Wind XP?

I've had bad luck with ACPI myself so I usually turn it off. Usually it needs drivers that support it and a BIOS that also supports it. But drivers and BIOS upgrades can be buggy themselves and be the cause of some crashes.

But here is what Microsoft says about APM/ACPI in Windows XP:
[link|http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307525|http://support.micro....com/?kbid=307525]

ACPI troubleshooting on previous Windows systems:
[link|http://is-it-true.org/nt/nt2000/atips/atips58.shtml|http://is-it-true.or...ips/atips58.shtml]

Hope that helps you somewhat.

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Post #116,834

by static

9/5/03 11:12:59 PM

Did you install the motherboard driver?

Especially for a system that's newer than XP, you will probably need it. Classic symptom is Windows only vaguely identifying the motherboard hardware; install the motherboard driver and all this specifcally identified stuff "miraculously" appears. Example: I have a box that can't see the AGP card or most PCI cards in Windows 2000 if I don't install the motherboard driver.

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Post #116,891

by orion

9/6/03 1:37:00 PM

Sometimes you need the updated driver

the stock one on the CD-ROM disk is usually old and buggy. Which may be the case here. Visit the motherboard maker's web site and download the Driver and BIOS updates and apply them and see if the problem goes away.

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Post #116,959

by static

9/7/03 2:54:05 AM

What he said. :-).

Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed

Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please

-- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne.

Post #116,846

by deSitter

9/6/03 12:35:12 AM

Re: How do I troubleshoot ACPI on Wind XP?

Are all the patches applied? There are 10s of them on some OEM XP installs.

I've never had much trouble, so no idea where to start.

-drl

Post #118,269

by Arkadiy

9/19/03 6:20:23 PM

And the winner is...

After an iteration of RRR cycle, the culprit has been found.

USB 2.0 drivers for the motherboard were screwing up the suspend mode. When I do not install them, I get plain USB speed, but suspend works. TADA!

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Post #118,943

by deSitter

9/26/03 2:00:57 AM

Re: And the winner is...

Interesting, similar issuen in Linux 2.4.18.

Most likely the BIOS defs are like everything else today, hopelessly muddled in rush-to-market madness. Remember when IBM sold a PC with the BIOS machine code in the appendix?

-drl

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