A8V Deluxe - ACPI and S3(STR)

[neolith2099]

I just bought a new A8V Deluxe Motherboard, an Athlon 64 3000+ CPU, an ATX 400W Power Supply, and have my system up and running like a champ.:thumbsup: However, I would now like to enable the S3 sleep feature. I enabled the 'S3 Only' option in the bios and now the system goes to sleep nicely...but I can't wake it up.

I have the most recent final BIOS (1008). It appears that there is no power going to my keyboard while my machine is in sleep mode or powered off. I disabled the Instant Music and have enabled the Keyboard Power-On feature and attempted to wake my machine up. With no success, I attempted to enable the power up on mouse event and that also doesn't work. I am confused and would like to know if there is a setting I am missing. My Keyboard/Mouse Power-On features don't work even when I shutdown my system. I tried just pressing the power button to wake up the system that way, but all I get is my mouse cursor and the lovely bliss, Windows XP default - green hills blue sky, background.😕

Note: S1(POS) state works great because I can wake it up by simply moving the mouse or touching the keyboard. If only this would work for the S3(STR) state. Also, the Instant Music feature doesn't work when I enable it.🙁 It's like when my system shuts down it cuts the power to my keyboard and mouse completly and I am doing hardboots all the time.

Thanks for the help. 🙂

 

[kiu77]

Well, I have exact the same problem. Waking up the system via power button on case results in a crashed display in 640x480@16colors and a warning from graphics card driver, tying to reset to 1280x1024@32bit freezes the system.
Graca is Matrox G550 which worked perfect in a 3GHz Dell P4 system.

I did not find any advice in no forum :-(((

Note:
For your problem: There are jumpers on the board giving USB etc. power out of the 5-V-standby-line.
Try this 🙂

 

[neolith2099]

I managed to get my system to go into sleep mode and I did use the jumper voltage thing you mentioned. However, my computer still does not boot with the wake on keyboard or mouse event (instant music was disabled), but it does work when I enable the Instant Music feature. Strange...

The reason that my system was not coming back from sleep mode was because it was trying to resume from the wrong hard drive. I had to change the onboard RAID controller to function as IDE channel to get it to work. All is well as far as S3 sleep is concerned...accept for the annoying blinking light 😛

For your problem, try physically removing hardware components untill you have a bare-minimum system and then try to go into S3, it should work. If it does, then start adding physical hardware one-at-a-time and try to figure if it is indeed the graphics cards fault.

With me, it was a harddrive conflict which would cause my video to lock up because it was getting lost. Perhap you can try booting with only one harddrive and see if your system will S3 for you.

 

[VirtualLarry]

There's a setting in my BIOS, on an MSI KT4V-L, something about resetting the video card before resume from S3 mode. Maybe enable that setting, if your BIOS has it?