Reason(s) for Failure to implement Sleep and Wake

[BonzaiDuck]

Posting this also under "Power Supplies."

As per myriad recent posts and threads I've made, I'm trying to build an absolutely stellar WHS-2011 server box. I discovered that I had in storage a (practically brand-new) ASUS Striker Extreme 680i board and a (practically brand-new) Conroe E6600. I also seem to have plenty of DDR2 RAM kits. So -- "I built it!" [Try and make a joke about "You didn't build that!" -- but I did.]

680i was nVidia chipset, and ASUS stopped producing driver updates of any significance for it. Nothing there on their download site for either Win 7 or Win-2008-R2 (core for WHS2011). Have to rely on Microsoft's own chipset or nForce drivers.

So I find I'm having trouble implementing either S3 or S1&S3 hybrid sleep. Systems will go to sleep, but they fail to wake up.

But I've got a 780i system with Win 7 installed -- also relied on the MS chipset driver versions. Hybrid sleep works great on that system. Wake-on-LAN works great, too.

And somewhere today -- I found a trouble-shooting page on a Win 7 forum, which suggests that one (of many) sources of the problem could be the PSU.

Currently all the systems in the house which wake and sleep properly are fitted with Seasonic 650 and 750 PSUs. The ones causing trouble have an older OCZ PowerStream and Antec NeoPower, respectively. Those PSUs are older than the Seasonics.

Is there any empirical experience among you [member-readers] that would sustantiate my suspicions? I have a spare Seasonic PSU -- fairly recent and brand new.

 

[Auric]

Just try t'other PSU and then all shall be revealed... thats it's nVidia's fault.

While you mentioned lack of driver updates, is same true for BIOS?

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Just try t'other PSU and then all shall be revealed... thats it's nVidia's fault.

While you mentioned lack of driver updates, is same true for BIOS?

Done that. Like the sargeant says in "Private Ryan" after the beach misery: "We're in Bid-nes! Def-in-itely!!" It was the PSU.

Striker Extreme was supposed to be a "flagship." It went through flurries of BIOS revisions, and it was quirky for over-clocking, even for "record-setting" under liquid-nitrogen or phase-change. Problems with filling all four RAM slots.

Then Intel left nVidia orphaned -- more or less. I'd hate to have my overall IQ rated by what I failed to recognize earlier, though. I'd been downloading drivers and utilities (as well as BIOS revisions) from the ASUS web-site. You DON'T NEED ASUS updates for chipset, ethernet, or nForce controller drivers!! As long as these things are related exclusively to nVidia, nVidia provided stellar updates to those things through 2010 (on the 680i boards) suitable for Win 7. And the Win 7 drivers work flawlessly for WHS-2011 (or its origin: the Win 2008 R2).

Pre-programmed/flashed PLCC/BIOS chips arrived today. That's my last and final step on this bad boy, except for adding more WD "Advanced Format" Blue TB drives. With the BIOS, obviously you'd ONLY use ASUS revisions for that motherboard. But those revisions ended only around 2010 -- a version #2002.

From what I've learned these last few days, I can see now that I have to buy Mom a new PSU for her C2D "nVidia 610i" system. The PSU she has is about 7 years old. So I'll wait for another bargain like I got last week: A Seasonic X650 Gold 80-plus originally priced around $170 and marked down during a short period to $90.

 

[tweakboy]

Windows has always had bug issues with sleep and hibernation.

Use sleep on monitor, but rest of your system is shakey. wakeup is shakey. gl

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Windows has always had bug issues with sleep and hibernation.

Use sleep on monitor, but rest of your system is shakey. wakeup is shakey. gl

That seemed to be the "way it was," and I stopped fiddling with it because I thought "that was the way it was."

But using old LGA775 boards and processors as well as socket-1155 SB technology, I believe I have all the machines working reliably this way -- in "hybrid sleep" and reliable "resume from suspend." The only problem I have now is the PSU in Mom's computer.

I've been making daily tests of those systems that seem stable with hybrid (S1&S3) sleep. I can wake them all remotely from my downstairs workstation, one at a time. So far, there hasn't been a single glitch.

And the daily tally of KwHrs seems diminished. . . . a little . . .