ATTN: Biostar M7NCG 400 owners

[k1114]

I would like to know the following:

1. Motherboard Version (1.0, 7.0, or 7.2)
2. Does it sleep in S3 (suspend to ram, all the fan shut off and it boots back up in seconds when called)
3. Does it sleep in S1 (same as above except fans and many other things stay on)

To test S3 (for those who do not know how) - go into the bios and change the suspend type to "S3(STR)" and then choose "Stand By" at the windows shutdown screen. The power button should bring it back out of sleep (during sleep it should be flashing). Remember to note if the fans do turn off, if they do not you are not running in ACPI mode or the board is for some reason incapable of S3 sleep and is defaulting to S1.

I'm under the impression that v1.0 cannot sleep in S3 for any reason, but that v7.0 and 7.2 are capable of doing so just fine. This is very important to me and i'm trying to gather information from owners of this board, as apparently there are many out there (although none have come forward so far )

 

[KoolAidKid]

I will check and get back to you.

 

[k1114]

bump

 

[Cheetah8799]

I'm under the impression that v1.0 cannot sleep in S3 for any reason, but that v7.0 and 7.2 are capable of doing so just fine. This is very important to me and i'm trying to gather information from owners of this board, as apparently there are many out there (although none have come forward so far )

You might find info by searching the nforcershq.com forum.

http://nforcershq.com/forum/

 

[k1114]

Originally posted by: Cheetah8799

I'm under the impression that v1.0 cannot sleep in S3 for any reason, but that v7.0 and 7.2 are capable of doing so just fine. This is very important to me and i'm trying to gather information from owners of this board, as apparently there are many out there (although none have come forward so far )

You might find info by searching the nforcershq.com forum.

http://nforcershq.com/forum/

They have nothing on the subject

Something else i've noticed is that the system can't see the hard drive after you put it into S3 and it reboots when you try to wake it up, you have to hit ctrl+alt+delete to restart then its fine.

 

[KoolAidKid]

Sorry for the long delay. I have version 7.2 and my BIOS does not even give you the option to choose S1 or S3. It appears to default to S1.

 

[k1114]

Man thats depressing I guess i'll be getting a different mobo (none of the other ones have voltage options) and seeing if I can get the cpu to run 11x166 (1826) @ stock voltage. Having a working S3 sleep is that important to me.